Eric James Stone

I’m planning to attend AutumnCon in Salt Lake City.

Sunday at 10am I’m on a panel called “So You Want to be a Writer? “

I’m planning to attend AutumnCon in Salt Lake City.

Saturday at 5pm I on a panel about “Putting the Science in Science Fiction.”

I’m planning to attend AutumnCon in Salt Lake City.

Friday at 6pm, I’ll be on a panel about “Joss Whedon�s Firefly: When Genres Collide.”

I’ve been asked to speak to a class at Snow College. Apparently it’s a large class that features speakers from the world of art and literature. The class itself is from 12:30 to 1:20; I’ll be signing books before and after.

UPDATED: Apparently there was some miscommunication about what time the event was. It is now from 11:00-1:00.

11:00 am-1:00 pm
Book Garden
2 N. Main
Bountiful, UT

Ray Bradbury wrote a memorable short story called “A Sound of Thunder.” I looked forward to the movie coming out this year, but apparently I missed it when it came out on September 2.

Perhaps that was a good thing. Here’s a quote from the E! Online review:

Our advice: Wait until it’s on the Sci Fi Channel, and then watch something else.

Orson Scott Card’s new quarterly online science fiction and fantasy magazine, Intergalactic Medicine Show, went live over the weekend. The first issue includes my fantasy short story “Taint of Treason.” (Link is to a preview of the story. To read the whole story, you must pay $2.50 to buy the entire issue.) Other authors with stories in the first issue include Orson Scott Card himself, Dave Wolverton (aka David Farland), Scott M. Roberts, John Brown, Rachel Ann Dryden, Edmund R. Schubert and Robert Stoddard.

OSC is hoping to make a subscription-based webzine work, and one of the keys to that is exemplified in this issue by his novelette “Mazer in Prison.” It’s a very interesting prequel to his most popular novel, Ender’s Game, and OSC has promised that each issue will feature a story set in the Ender world. Hopefully, readers will come for the Endery goodness and then stick around to read the rest of the stories.

The first issue also includes a serialization of OSC’s first (and out-of-print) science fiction novel, Hot Sleep. The first issue contains part one of five. Since the magazine is quarterly, you might think that means it will take over a year to get all five parts of the novel, but that’s not the case. Over the course of the next quarter, all four remaining parts will be released to readers who have bought the first issue.

In addition to the updated novel content, there will be updated monthly columns (book reviews by John Joseph Adams, for example) available to subscribers.

Updated content is not the only advantage the webzine format offers over regular print magazines. An audio version of “Mazer in Prison” read by Audie-winner Stefan Rudnicki is available for download.

The entire issue will remain permanently online, so subscribers will always have access to whichever issues they have purchased.

So, if you like reading science fiction and fantasy, I suggest you give Intergalactic Medicine Show a try. At only $2.50 per issue, you’ll get more words for your buck than you will at the bookstore.

October 15 (Saturday)
12:00-2:00pm

After some server problems that have plagued the site all week, I think things are working now.

After a bit of testing, I’ve switched my blogging engine from b2evolution to WordPress.

Why?

Because.