Embassy Books Now Pay-What-You-Want To Help Fight Pandemic Boredom

Because the pandemic has a lot of people feeling both poor and bored, I've set my Embassy books to Pay What You Want for the duration. Yes, that includes $0.00, and don't hesitate to use that option if that's all you have.

The Embassy books are fun and optimistic. If that's the kind of thing you can use, visit my shop and get them now, or select Buy -> Digital Direct From Author on the carousel at the top of the page.

Reader's Room : Announcement

The Reader's Room is coming to a close. I've enjoyed doing it for you, and I'll leave it up so you can listen again or share it with others.

Here are some good reads to tide you over until you find the next thing:

• Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Rowanhorse
• Blackfish City by Sam Miller
• The Outside by Ada Hoffman
• The Gurkha and the Lord of Thursday by Saad Hossain
• Gods, Monsters, and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson

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Reader's Room: Hidden Structures

Reader's Room pulls the most fascinating writing from speculative fiction, science, and technology. In this edition we look at how two stories can simultaneously be strikingly similar and completely different. We also have a roundup of interesting science and technology, N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth books, and Rosemary Kirstein The Steerswoman series.

Show links:

• N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth series.
• Rosemary Kirstein The Steerswoman series.
• This year's Ig Nobel Winners and a roundup of the weird science.
• Implanted organs printed from a patent's own cells.
• Why we say 'Hello' when we answer the phone. and why we say 'automobile' instead of oleo locomotive.

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Reader's Room: Between The Tradewinds

Reader's Room pulls the most fascinating writing from speculative fiction, science, and technology. In this edition we talk about what happens when the wind goes out of your sails, speculative fiction from Fireside, the optimistic present from Future Crunch, and long-term thinking from The Long Now foundation. And we talk about my difficulty with naming things.

Show links:

• Future Crunch
• • Their newsletter subscription..
  • Good News links from past newsletters.
  • Their Patreon.
• The Long Now Foundation
• • List of seminars. (Available as podcasts and videos. Members can get better access.)
  • The 10,000 year clock.
  • The Interval (Their coffee shop and cocktail bar.)
• Fireside Magazine
• • The grown selection of newly published books
  • Their website which features their short fiction (after subscribers get it)
  • Subscriptions If you think what they do is worth money. (It is.)

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Reader's Room: Fortune’s Furious Fickle Wheel

Reader's Room pulls the most fascinating writing from speculative fiction, science, and technology. In this edition we talk about coming to terms with things, including glitter, Shakespeare, and loss.

Show links:

• Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed
• Which is part of the Hogarth Shakespeare collection.
• UK exam board fined$250,000 for confusing characters from Romeo and Juliet.
• Clark County inmates learning to engineer, produce, and play music. (Autoplay video warning. Sorry.)
• 10 minute documentary about a very unlikley soul album.YouTube Link. Here's one of their songs.
• Paper: The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities PDF link

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