The 2020 Philcon is this weekend! Here is my schedule. Hope you can come!
Saturday, Nov 21, 4pm EST, Plaza 1: Drift Compatible: The Science of Neural Interface Technology
Saturday, Nov 21, 7pm EST: Reading, Catherine Asaro
Sunday, Nov 22, 4pm EST, Plaza 1: Rule of Cool vs Actual Science
SFFcon is almost upon us! Here are details about my panels.
SCIENCE IN SCI-FI
Saturday, Nov 7, at 2 PM PST, or 9 PM GMT
YouTube Link: youtu.be/QeOmO6xqZmE
HARD SCI-FI
Sunday, Nov 8, at 2 PM PST, or 9 PM GMT
YouTube Link: youtu.be/Cg0r2ZvuRCQ
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• Learn more at: www.sffcon.com
Click through For more details, panel details, and a list of speakers. →
I’ve posted Chapter Two of The (new) Quantum Rose on my Patreon page. You can find it by clicking here.
The original The Quantum Rose won the Nebula Award for Best novel.
Art Credit: Elena Dudina, www.deviantart.com/elenadudina/art/Rose-855925145
Click through to see the first few paragraphs of Chapter Two→
Capclave has gone virtual this year. Read all about it here: www.capclave.org/capclave/capclave20/
Here is my schedule:
Sat, Oct 17, 10:30 am: Overused Mistakes in Hard SF.
Sat, Oct 17, 3 pm: Writing Time Travel and Paradoxes.
Sun, Oct 18, 4 pm: Author reading
We have it!
The anthology The Mammoth Book of Space Wars, which includes a Skolian Empire story by Catherine, is now available from Starflight Music and Books. Click on through to explore the page and all the other books at SMB.
You can read an excerpt of Catherine’s story, The Pyre of New Day here online at the Mammoth books page.
My daughter and I had a tomato ceremony recently, to honor my tomato plant and what it’s done for our healing. I wrote an essay about it on my Patreon page: www.patreon.com/posts/41914365
Click through to see pictures of the honored tomato and more→
I’ve posted installment 2 of the Tuckerization contest on my Patreon page.
The winner of the Tuckerization contest gets to pick a free book out of anything I have in stock at Starflight Music and Books, and I will send it to you, signed if you like.
I’m running a Tuckerization contest on my Patreon page.
You may have heard the term before; Tuckerization is using the name of a real person as a character in a book. It comes from the author Wilson Tucker, a science fiction writer and prolific sf fan and editor, who often used the names of his friends for his characters.
In the next two weeks I’ll be posting scenes from various of my novels on my Patreon page. Out of all the scenes I post, four will involve Tuckerizations. If you are the first person to get all four, you can select any book or record you wish from the Starflight Music and Books catalogue and I will send it to you.
I’ve posted pictures of the downed trees and giant branches around our house from Isais. More details and a “travelogue” around the fall out are on my patreon page.
Also, here is the link to a virtual sf panel I did recently for TAG Con 2020 Virtual Intergalactic.
It’s the “Astra Daimon Round Table: Conversation with Other Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers” panel,
Saturday, August 15, 2020 – 10:00 pm EDT
We’re recovering here from the blast of tropical storm Isais. It didn’t dump all that much rain on Long island, but wow, the winds. Although they weren’t hurricane speed, apparently they came fairly close. Trees and power lines are down everywhere.
I won’t be able to participate in the Con-tinual programming panel “SciFi Doesn’t Have to be Hard” because they recorded it yesterday during the storm when my power was out. So I had no access to Zoom. We’re looking into alternate ways for me to take part in the virtual con. Stay tuned here for updates!
Photo credit: Grant Parpan, Riverhead News-Review
