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Cover Fun!
Thanks for all the great compliments that many of you have been sending me about the cover of the book. The final version of the cover is essentially the one you've seen before (it is on the MIT Press...
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A Street Scene Materializing
Well, I finished all the line art on that SF short story I was asked to write and draw. And the good news is that the editor of the anthology it will be part of is extremely pleased with the story. So...
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I Went Walking, and…
Well, that was nice. Was out for a walk with my son and ran into Walter Isaacson. (The Aspen Center for Physics, which I'm currently visiting, is next door to the Aspen Institute. He's the president...
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Future Crowds…
Yeah, I still hate doing crowd scenes. (And the next panel is an even wider shot. Why do I do this to myself?) Anyway, this is a glimpse of the work I'm doing on the final colour for a short science...
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A Skyline to Come?
I finished that short story project for that anthology I told you about and submitted the final files to the editor on Sunday. Hurrah. It'll appear next year and I'll give you a warning about when it...
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Book Notifications!
I wonder if others get notifications from Amazon about my book as often as I do... anyway, please note that it is due to appear (depending upon who you believe) in 6-8 weeks or so, so please consider...
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Angel’s Flight Lives!
Today marks the day when, after a long closure, the lovely tiny railway called Angel's Flight in downtown Los Angeles re-opens. There is a news piece here for example. It was a common feature of what...
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It’s Time for the County Fair!
It's that time of year again. For me, County Fairs have a charmingly old-fashioned quality to them, and I love to visit what might be considered some of the more boring aspects - the various crafts on...
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Unexpected Throwback!
Wow, I've really got something good for Throwback Thursday! A large white envelope arrived in my mailbox*, addressed to me in handwriting. My first thought was that it was yet another sheaf of papers...
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Today’s Nobel Prize in physics has an interesting wrinkle to it. I summarised it in the extract above from a certain forthcoming book*. Click for a larger view. Congratulations to the winners Rainer...
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In Flight…
Over on Instagram - follow me there @asymptotia for lots of activity - I showed a couple of montages of sketches I did on the flight out to New Orleans and on the return portion. It is a bit of...
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Podcast Appreciation, 1
This is the first in a short series of posts about some favourite podcasts I've been listening to over the last year and a half or so. This episode I'll mention Comics Alternative, Saturday Review and...
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Here and There
[caption id="attachment_18854" align="aligncenter" width="499"] Kent Devereaux @NHIAPres took this at Poptech[/caption] I've been a bit pulled hither and thither this last ten days or so. I was...
View ArticleA Sighting!
I went a bit crazy on social media earlier today. I posted this picture and: There’s been a first sighting!! Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrgh! It EXISTS! It actually exists! In a bookstore (Cellar Door Books in...
View ArticleHenry Jenkins Interview!
Just after waking up today I read Henry Jenkins' introduction to an interview that he did with me, posted on his fascinating blog (Confessions of an ACA-Fan: about culture, media, communication, and...
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Henry Jenkins Interview (Complete)
All the parts of my interview with Henry Jenkins have been posted now. You can find them here, here, and here. The latest, posted today, talks about a nod to the superhero genre that I playfully do in...
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Two Events!
(Image above courtesy of Cellar Door Books in Riverside, CA.) Happy Thanksgiving! This coming week, there'll be two events that might be of interest to people either in the Los Angeles area, or the...
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Now that #thedialoguesbook is out is I get even more people telling me how they can’t draw. I don’t believe them. Just as with science (and other subjects), everybody has a doorway in to a subject. It...
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Anthony Zee’s Joke(?)
So I've been waiting for some time to tell you about this clever joke by eminent physicist Anthony Zee. Well, I think it is a joke, I've not checked with him yet: The final production period for The...
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Noted…
Last week the always-interesting Maria Popova of Brain Pickings wrote a piece about the book. I was pleased to see what she wrote because it was clear that she really understood many of the several...
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