War Fiction
It's Remembrance Day here in Canada, and Veterans' Day in the US. Today The Tyee published my essay War and How We Told It, discussing the early Canadian novels about what they called the Great War.
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Some of My Books
The Fall of the Republic
In a parallel timeline, 1990s America discovers the chronoplanes: parallel worlds at different points in history.Rogue Emperor
The hijacking of the Roman Empire, 100 AD, by 21st-century Christian fundamentalists, in the second of the Chronoplane Wars novels.The Empire of Time
My first novel, published in 1978, but the last in the Chronoplane Wars trilogy.Gryphon
"Write a space opera," my editor said. So I did, with some nanotech thrown in.Tsunami
A companion novel to Icequake, set mostly in California.Icequake
A disaster thriller (Antarctic ice sheet surges into ocean), dated but still fun.Eyas
Originally published in 1982, and still the novel I'm most proud of.
My Blogs
- Ask the English Teacher
Questions and answers about English usage. - Books and Writers
Literary news and reviews - Bridging the Income Gap
Why inequality is hazardous to your health. - Climate Wars
- H5N1
News and resources about avian flu - Jou Tou and Silk Road Music
About a couple of remarkable Vancouver world-music groups. - Neat Stuff
Serendipitous discoveries around the Web. - On Education
Schools for a civil society. - Pioneers
Blogging the Black pioneers of British Columbia - Prototype
About blogging in education: an idea whose time has not yet come. - Sointula
"Place of Harmony"—a remarkable community on BC's central coast. - The View from Seymour
Parochial politics in a Vancouver suburb. - Write a Novel
An online guide for fiction writers. - Write Your Nonfiction Book
And use online resources to research, write, and publish it. - Writing Fiction
Advice and suggestions on how to write and sell short stories and fiction. - Writing for the Web
About the surprising new genres emerging on the Web.
Writers' Blogs and Sites
- Beacon Literary Services (Julie H. Ferguson)
- Charlie Stross
- Cynthia Harrison - A Writer's Diary
- feeding change - liam o'donnell blogs
- George Orwell Diaries
- Inkygirl: Daily Diversions For Writers
- John Baker’s Blog
- Lensey Namioka
- Naptime Writer
- Nothing to write home about
- Online Journalism Blog
- Spinning
- Terry Bisson Story Showcase
- Terry Glavin
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Victoria Mixon
- VONNEGUT•COM -- The Official Website of Kurt Vonnegut
- Zoe Cormier
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