Makers as dummy-text on a site for low-vision hockey team
Sandy works with the Ice Owls, a team of blind and low-vision hockey players. In the course of making the team’s website, Sandy had need of some sample text with which to test the site with a...
View ArticleInterview with NPR Writers’ Voice
Here’s an interview I did about my novel Makers with the NPR program Writers’ Voice. I share the bill with David Bollier, co-founder of Public Knowledge. MP3 Link
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Proper noun frequency in MAKERS
Jeff Clark sez, “I’ve created a graphic from the text of ‘Makers’ that shows the distribution of the various proper nouns in your work. It seems to do a pretty good job of communicating the ebb and...
View ArticleMakers tile-game, the physical object edition
Last year, my novel Makers was published and syndicated free as a series of 81 blog-posts on Tor.com. Tor had the insanely creative people at Idiots’ Books produce 81 interlocking, tesselating...
View ArticleMAKERS is a Campbell Award finalist
W00t! My novel MAKERS is a finalist for the 2010 John W Campbell Memorial Award. The other nominees include some of my favorite books of the year, such as Bruce Sterling’s CARYATIDS, Bacigalupe’s...
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Makers is a Sunburst finalist
I’m absolutely delighted to announce that my novel Makers has made the shortlist for Canada’s Sunburst Award, a juried prize “presented annually to Canadian writers with a speculative fiction novel or...
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UK editions of my novels; launch on July 20 with China Mieville
HarperVoyager, my UK publisher, have just published British editions of the three novels they didn’t already have in print: Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Eastern Standard Tribe, and Someone Comes...
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Coming to Germany, Amsterdam for Little Brother/Makers tour
Hey, Germans! Next Monday, I leave for a ten-day tour of Deutschland with the German edition of Little Brother. At my urging, my publisher Rowohlt has set an insane pace so that I get to as many...
View ArticleTalking Makers on CBC’s The Next Chapter
I’ll be on CBC’s The Next Chapter with Sheelagh Rogers this Monday at 1PM Eastern, discussing my novel Makers (it’ll also be streamable after it airs).
View ArticleInterview with CBC about Makers
I recently spoke to the CBC’s Shelagh Rogers on The Next Chapter about my novel Makers. The interview just aired, and they’ve put up streaming audio of it as well.
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My head is a 3D scan
Last week, my wife Alice and I stopped into MakerBot Industries, the DIY 3D printing company in Brooklyn, and got our heads scanned. The MakerBotters covered us in cornstarch (so that the...
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A dog with persistence-of-vision LEDs in her shirt writes my novel Makers in...
Michael created a dog-shirt equipped with persistence-of-vision LEDs controlled by a LilyPad soft Arduino, and programmed it to output the text of my novel Makers as his pooch ran gleefully around the...
View ArticleUnmakers: Wikified Makers in hypertext form
Adam created UnMakers using the Creative-Commons-licensed text of my novel Makers. It opens with the final scene, and invites you to navigate the text that led up to it hypertextually, following...
View ArticleInterview with Ken MacLeod about Makers, For the Win, and UK riots
Here’s a two-part video interview that Ken MacLeod conducted with me earlier this week at the Edinburgh Book Festival for the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum. We chatted gold farming,...
View ArticleMakers fan-video
Chris Davis made a smart 1 minute video inspired by Makers, which provides visual accompaniment to Landon Kettlewell’s opening speech in the novel.
View ArticleMakers, the Master’s thesis
Noah Brewer just successfully defended his MA English thesis Re-Makers: The Novel in Digital Collaborative Space at the University of Georgia. As the title implies, the piece is about my novel Makers....
View ArticleMakers remixed in C#
Supreet Kaur made this delightful C# remix of a pivotal scene in Makers, as part of the coursework for a Game Design degree in London. The remix scored an A+ — congrats, Supreet!
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Makers review from high-school senior Rebecca Nguyen
Rebecca Nguyen is a high-school senior who is a fan of my young adult novels. Recently, she read my book Makers and liked it so much that she wrote a great review of it, which she placed with the...
View ArticleMakers: the Japanese fan-trans
Haruka Tsubota has undertaken a Japanese fan-translation of my novel Makers. It’s available as Epub and Mobi, and licensed CC-BY-NC-SA. Here’s the original book.
View ArticleTalking RADICALIZED and MAKERS on Writers Voice
The Writers Voice podcast just published their interview with me about Radicalized; as a bonus, they include my decade-old interview about Makers in the recording! MP3
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