http://www.davidlouisedelman.com Science Fiction Novelist, Blogger, Web Programmer Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:00:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, that was quick... Only one day after Amazon released Infoquake on the Kindle, they've now made MultiReal available too. Go check it out on Amazon. Expect Geosynchron to be released tomorrow. (No, not really.) http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-news/multireal-on-kindle/ I've received a number of emails from potential readers out there griping that my books aren't available in electronic format. You're writing about a digital future where people can call up any text in the world instantly and project it holographically on their retinas, they say. So how come I'm ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-news/infoquake-on-kindle/ Now it can be shown: my editor Lou Anders has posted on the Pyr blog the cover art and synopsis for Geosynchron, the last book in my Jump 225 Trilogy. Here, without further ado, it is. (You can also view a larger version.) The cover painting is once again by the ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-news/geosynchron-cover/ I've always claimed in interviews that it doesn't really matter whether the actual future resembles the future I wrote about in Infoquake and MultiReal. There are simply too many variables in predicting the future, such that if you do get it right, it's largely a matter of luck. But like ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/infoquake/ray-kurzweil-on-multi-technology/ Two more pieces of book promotion for y'all to chew on. First, I've been interviewed by Shaun Farrell for the Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing podcast. It's a rather lengthy interview -- 30 minutes or so -- and it covers everything from whether Natch is the "hero" of Jump 225, why the ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-news/adventures-in-sci-fi-interviewing/ Meesa bustin' wit happiness to see all the sudden free publicity for me and my books around the blogosphere. The latest: Charlie Jane Anders of science fiction megasite io9 has just published an interview with me. I dig the title: MultiReal Is Your Dot-Com Nightmare Writ Large. Topics covered include my ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-news/io9-joseph-mallozzi-and-sf-signal/ Today on Pyr-o-mania, the house blog of Pyr (publishers of my novels Infoquake and MultiReal), I've posted a little piece about the importance of good characters in fiction. I use as the jumping-off point my recent forays into reading the complete Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Quick ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/writing/on-characters/ It's that time of year again when all 114 of us who participate in the Hugo Award voting process send in our nominations for the best science fiction and fantasy stuff from the previous year. If you're one of those 114, might I oh-so-humbly suggest a couple of items for ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/science-fiction/hugo-eligible-work-2008/ I've managed to carve out enough time from all of the diaper changes, spit-ups and late-night feedings to conduct two new interviews in support of MultiReal. (And don't even get me started about the babies.) <rim shot> Fast Forward, the Arlington, VA-based cable science fiction TV show, conducted a 19-minute interview ... http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/book-news/fast-forward-and-post-weird-interviews/ The babies have arrived. Abigail Blakeway Edelman, born October 31st at 8:02 am, 6 pounds 5 ounces. Benjamin Blakeway Edelman, born October 31st at 8:04 am, 6 pounds 2 ounces. Mom and babies are healthy, Dad's a little frazzled but ecstatically happy. http://www.davidlouisedelman.com/uncategorized/abigail-and-benjamin/