Two weeks from now, I will be appearing on Stanford University’s Philosophy Talk, a nationally-syndicated radio show that airs on 100+ stations around the country. They’re doing a show on dark matter, the mysterious stuff that makes up most of the matter in the universe. It’s a remarkable fact that, despite everything we’ve learned about the…
Voila Superposition!
It’s another release day for Superposition! Today is the day the French translation of Superposition is being published in France. Here’s the cover for the French edition, which I think is pretty stunning. (Though, what is it with Superposition and bald people? There are no bald characters, and yet somehow all the covers have no…
Faith, Religion, and Respect in Clockwork Dagger and Breath of Earth
I asked Beth Cato to visit my blog today and talk about how religion plays a role in her fantasy novels. Not many authors are brave enough to try to give their characters religious views, but Beth has done so, both with real faiths and those of her own invention. Beth’s novels The Clockwork Dagger…
The Genius Plague… sold!
I’m delighted to announce that THE GENIUS PLAGUE is finally under contract! Two publishers wanted it, and although “bidding war” would be an overly dramatic description, they were both willing to increase their offers and make concessions on terms in order to get the book. When the dust settled, it was the incumbent, Pyr Books, that won…
Superposition E-book Mixup
If you recently bought the Superposition e-book, you may have gotten a surprise. When you opened the book, you found not Superposition, but the sequel, Supersymmetry! Not only that, but a few pages in, the book stopped suddenly. End of book. What’s going on? The answer is simple. The entire text of Superposition is there,…
Superposition is a Kindle Daily Deal!
For one day only (today!), Superposition is a Kindle Daily Deal, which means it’s on sale in all e-reader formats (not just Kindle) for only $2.99. Now, if you’re reading this blog, chances are you’ve already read Superposition. But your friends, or their friends, might not have! If you enjoyed the book, and think someone else…
When Spooky Action Comes in Threes
A fan wrote me today and asked about a passage from Superposition, in which a character explains quantum entanglement using coins as an analogy. He asked: What if there were three coins instead of two? I enjoyed writing up the answer, so I thought I’d post a portion of it here: In the analogy, I…
Who Put This Message In My Fiction?
That was the title of a panel at Lunacon 2016, the New York science fiction convention I attended this past weekend. The other panelists and I discussed the merits of stories that have a message. Science fiction is the literature of ideas, but nobody likes their fiction to preach at them. So are stories improved…
Sleepless in Philadelphia
What if you never had to sleep? It’s something I’ve thought about off and on ever since I read Nancy Kress’s masterpiece, Beggars in Spain, about genetically-modified children who don’t need to sleep. My friend and fellow author Josh Vogt has been thinking about this question, too, and has popped by to tell us his…
Superposition, the TV Series?
It’s an exciting time to be a science fiction author. SF movies and TV shows are at an all-time high in popularity, and new shows are being made from novels all the time. I’m excited to announce that the television rights to my quantum physics thrillers SUPERPOSITION and SUPERSYMMETRY have been picked up by eOne…
Hallo Deutchland!
The German language version of Superposition will be released in June of this year, an exciting event for me, as it will be my first book released in that language. And check out this über-cool cover! In German, the book will be titled “Quantum”, I guess because “Überlagerung” doesn’t have the right ring to it. If…
Elephants in SPAAAACE!
That’s right, author Lawrence M. Schoen and Tor Books have just released the marvelous new novel Barsk: The Elephants’ Graveyard. It’s about uplifted elephants–elephants that have language and culture like humans–and it’s like nothing you’ve ever read. It might sound like a children’s novel (Horton? Dumbo?), but these elephants are deadly serious. There are other…
The Glory of the Hat
My friend Megan O’Keefe has a book coming out! Not just any book, but her first book, called Steal the Sky, and it’s due to launch on January 5. I have it on good authority that it’s an exciting caper of a novel, a conman’s attempted heist of an airship, that sounds a lot like…
Science Fiction Book Bundle
It’s a science fiction book bundle! My Philip K. Dick award-winning first novel, Terminal Mind, is available for the next three weeks as part of a bundle of 9 science fiction e-books by various authors. How much does it cost? Good question: you can decide. Here’s how it works: You enter an amount you think…
Writing for Kids
Any parent who has read hundreds of books to their children has thought, at one time or another, about what it would be like to write one themselves. My friend Nancy Fulda is here today to tell us how she came to do just that! Her new book (published under the pseudonym Sherrida Pope) is…
The New News on the Mooz
Today my story “All The Rage This Year” becomes available to read on Moozvine. It’s one of my favorites, the award-winning short story that really kicked off my writing career. The world of this story–biological mods in a cratered Philadelphia–was the seed idea for my debut novel, the Philip K. Dick Award winning Terminal Mind. “All…
The Story Behind the Story
If you want to read more about how Supersymmetry came to be written, check out this “Story Behind the Story” at Upcoming4.me! And if you want to read about how awesome Superposition is, don’t take my word for it–check out what Philadelphia’s premier geek magazine has to say.
It’s Supersymmetry Launch Day!
As you read this, book store employees across the nation are setting out copies of SUPERSYMMETRY on the shelves! It’s an exciting day for me, and I hope for you as well. Supersymmetry was great fun to write, perhaps even more so than Superposition. I’m very pleased with the result, and looking forward to all…
Superposition selected for a Daily Deal!
Good news! Superposition has been selected for today’s Daily Deal! That means that Amazon chose it for a special promotion and is offering the e-book for only $2.99 for one day only. But don’t worry–if you don’t have a Kindle, all the other e-book types will discount to match! So no matter what e-reader you…
These Books Are Not The Same!
I love the covers for Superposition and Supersymmetry. They don’t exactly depict any character or situation from the books, but they capture the books thematically, and they’re certainly eye-catching. But I’m afraid that casual bookstore browsers won’t notice that these are, in fact, two different books! So here’s a shout-out to all readers of Superposition…
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