Free Stuff

I've made my first novel, Ventus, available as a free download, as well as excerpts from two of the Virga books. I am looking forward to putting up a number of short stories in the near future.

Complete novel: Ventus

To celebrate the August, 2007 publication of Queen of Candesce, I decided to re-release my first novel as a free eBook. You can download it from this page. Ventus was first published by Tor Books in 2000, and and you can still buy it; to everyone who would just like to sample my work, I hope you enjoy this free version.

I've released this book under a Creative Commons license, which means you can read it and distribute it freely, but not make derivative works or sell it.

Book Excerpts: Sun of Suns and Pirate Sun

I've made large tracts of these two Virga books available. If you want to find out what the Virga universe is all about, you can check it out here:

Short Stories

I'll be adding new stories here periodically. First of all, you can try my Aurora-award nominated short story "Hopscotch." The year this was nominated, another of my stories was also nominated: "The Toy Mill," which I wrote with David Nickle. "The Toy Mill" won the award; but I've always been fond of "Hopscotch." Here it is, in its entirety excerpted from my collection The Engine of Recall.

Hopscotch

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SciBarCamp is full up

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Here's a brief un-program for the event

Next weekend's first SciBarCamp is now full, with well over 100 confirmed attendees. The event's happening at Hart House, which is a magnificent location in the heart of Toronto (the University of Toronto takes up a square mile of the downtown core).

Fear not if you were hoping to come but were unable. We want this event to be the first of a regular series. Just make sure you follow the news at the SciBarCamp website, and sign up early!

SciBarCamp's deliberately vague schedule

The program for SciBarCamp will be decided in a collaborative way involving all participants on the opening night (Friday night). This is when all the talks and discussions will be scheduled.

The start and finish times for each day have been decided, and are set out below. The opening event on Friday night will be integral to the whole weekend, so please plan to attend on this night as well as on the rest of the weekend.

FRIDAY, March 14: 7:00pm to 9:30pm

The program for the weekend will be decided. Bring along your ideas and suggestions for talks or discussions you'd like to see happen.

SATURDAY, March 15, 9:00am to 5:00pm

The first day of talks, discussions, performances, and demos.

SUNDAY, March 16, 9:00am to 5:00pm

The second day of talks, discussions, performances, and demos.

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Texas Sci Fi!

Posted by Manuel Pagan at Mar 12, 2008 11:30 AM

Any chance you'll stop by Texas some time? ^_^ Yes, I know it's hard to imagine, but you have fans in the southern United States who love your books.

Keep writing.

Invite me!

Posted by Karl Schroeder at Mar 12, 2008 12:43 PM

Get your local convention to invite me down. I'd love to come (particularly after the winter we've just had, I'd love to come down in the winter. :-))

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