[This post was sitting here, unpublished, because I was so tired when I got back from PAX that I got taken out by a cold for a week.] PAX was wonderful. Got to rock some good science fiction at the table, ran into a guy from my college RPG, sold more than I’ve ever sold [...]
I’m on my way to PAX East! I hope to see you there, but if not, at least you can entertain yourself by maximizing your window size, then clicking on the mass of organs above that represent the history of fantastic fiction, starting with mythology and ending up in the realm of Kim Stanley Robinson, [...]
In an early Human Contact game, a player asked me why Academics go to the stars. The answer is this video. Another Sagan quote, this one from a rejected layout that we might yet see in a future edition of the game: As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth [...]
Good news! After two weeks of technical issues, the first copies of Human Contact are in! The technical issues persist, unfortunately, so there’s not quite closure, but I have 60 copies now, should have another 200 or so next week, and another 50ish the week after that. The nature of the technical issue isn’t clear; [...]
I’ve seen a couple of videos of this now, but this one uses the soundtrack of The Black Hole and Blade Runner. The choice was obvious. Human Contact contains a similar exercise that runs in the margin through the whole book.
I’ve wanted to do more sculpture for a while now. In celebration of giving the thumbs up to the press, I started work on an isisaurus colberti. It’s a “small” sauropod (like the apatosaurs, brachiosaurs, and ultrasaurs of our childhoods) of a mere 18m in length. But what gets me is its weird, hyaena-like posture. [...]
A very exciting FedEx package just arrived! I have to confirm a couple of things with the press, but it’s looking good to go straight into production this week!
A video called Scale by Brad Goodspeed gives us another view of the scale of our cosmic neighbors in a different way than Human Contact does.
Are you going to be at PAX East? I am! I’ll be doing a bunch of things, in fact. 1: I’ll be holding down a booth with Vincent Baker, Meg Baker, Emily Care Boss, and Epidiah Ravachol. We’ll be selling, off the top of my head: Dogs in the Vineyard Mechaton, if we’re smart Apocalypse [...]
