and, after yesterday's Ack!OMGWTF copyedit postings, something happier....

The cover for PSI#3: TRICKS OF THE TRADE!



*is squeefully joyful*



The setting is the banks of lower Manhattan, off the East River. It doesn't actually LOOK like that, but the feel is dead-on perfect. Am very happy writer-meerkat.

And before anyone asks: November 2011, and no you can't pre-order it yet, I don't know why...

passing political commentary

Is it just me, or is there irony in the sons of bin Laden protesting violations in international law in the death of their father?

apparently, it's Good News Tuesday....

SF Signal has a balanced, thoughtful review of DRAGON VIRUS. He was looking for hard science, but came away satisfied with the social commentary (saying I'm writing more LeGuin than Greg Bear, which is a totally fair and utterly flattering assessment).

The best bits, pulled for your delectation:

"Gilman's stories go right to the questions of what it means to be human... Her use of young adults as most of her protagonists, a time of life marked by upheaval and change even for normal people, reinforces and deepens the themes that she is trying to evoke in the stories. On those grounds, and in that métier, Gilman is stunningly successful.... (I)f you are the kind of reader who could care less about the difference between 5-Methylcytosine and Uracil, and want to take a potent ride through a changing future, exploring themes and ideas that resonate as much in the modern day as in her darkly evolving future...Dragon Virus is definitely commended to you."