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40-minute podcast with reflections on the publication of my latest nonfiction book, New New Media, on September 3, 2009, with descriptions of events and expectations in August 2009, through the day of publication, and continuing with adventures in September and October 2009. Highlights include mentions of the book in… Continue

20-minute podcast about the love/hate relationship between authors and critics...

I'll be reading, live (always better than dead) from the first chapter of The Plot to Save Socrates - and then answering questions from the audience. Part of Adele Ward's acclaimed Meet the Author series in Second Life.

I've always regretted not being able to do a national or even international reading of my science fiction - and have, up until now, been confined
to bookstores. Next Sunday will be my first truly global reading...
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I just opened a virtual bookshop in Second Life - I'm calling it the Soft Edge bookshop, in honor of my breakthrough nonfiction book of 1997, and because I'll be selling my science fiction (soft) as well as my nonfiction (hard edge) in the bookshop.

Most of the other booksellers in Second Life sell ebooks, which can be read within Second Life. I'm trying something a little different - 3-dimensional images of my book, with blurbs and descriptions and link to their Amazon pages, where vis… Continue