J Alan Erwine's Blog

J Alan Erwine is a prize winning SF writer. He is also an SF editor, and the co-designer of the Ephemeris Role Playing Game. He is also the creator of the Rocks on the Other Side RPG, as well as the Battle for Turtle Island RPG.

Friday, June 27, 2008

My Denvention Schedule

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I'm only doing one panel at this year's Denvention, but since this will be the first WorldCon that I've ever attended, I'm h...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

I'm selling some small press books and zines

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People often send me or give me books or magazines, and now that I'm getting ready to move, I've found that I'm really not going...

Happy birthday George

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Today would have been George Orwell's 105th birthday. 1984 and Animal Farm were two books which greatly shaped my view of the world, an...
Saturday, June 21, 2008

Memories

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Stolen from Jay Lake ... “If you read this, if your eyes are passing over this right now,even if we don’t speak often, please post a comment...
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Friday, June 20, 2008

Because everyone else is...

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I've seen a lot of authors doing these little word clouds of their works, so I decided to do the prologue for The Opium of the People I...
Sunday, June 15, 2008

Moving

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Rebecca and I have found an apartment in Aurora...a southern Denver "suburb," and we'll be moving on July 18th and 19th. It...
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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Even More Stories at Anthology Builder

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I now have 10 stories listed at Anthology Builder ...a build your own anthology site. You can pick some of my stories, and stories from num...
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Sunday, June 01, 2008

Two pieces of news

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Almost 20 years ago, I made the decision that I wanted to be a science fiction writer. The first story I ever seriously submitted to magazin...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008

The Phoenix has landed

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I just watched the coverage on NASA TV of the Phoenix landing in the northern polar region of Mars. It was mostly just telemetry data, but i...
Saturday, May 17, 2008

Engagement pics

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I thought my regular readers might want to see pics from the big engagement. The close-up of the ring didn't come out...unfortunately.
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Friday, May 16, 2008

I'm Engaged

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That's right folks, the guy who swore off women a little more than a year ago is now engaged. I popped the question to Rebecca tonight,...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Odd news story

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The headline reads: "'Darth Vader' spared jail in Jedi church attacks." Yes, it's a real story. To read the whole th...
Tuesday, May 06, 2008

A meme

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I posted this on my LiveJournal, but I thought I'd post it here as well...for anyone who might be interested... Recently, mmerriam poste...
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Thursday, May 01, 2008

The Magenta Equations at Allegory

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My story, The Magenta Equations, has been posted at Allegory . This is what I would consider somewhat of a hard SF story, although the hard...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008

UFOs

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It's all over the Nets that more strange lights were spotted over Phoenix again. By strict definition, these are UFOs...Unidentified Fly...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Happy Earth Day!

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Personally, I think every day should be Earth Day. I think we're destroying this planet, and we should all be ashamed of ourselves. Wh...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Forgive Men Their Trespasses

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My story Forgive Men their Trespasses has just been picked up by Afterburn SF . The story is set in the same universe as my novel The Opium ...
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Friday, April 18, 2008

For Joe

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Like me, Joe was a cycling fanatic. We'd watch the Versus coverage of the races, and then e-mail each other and discuss the race. Even...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Mortality sucks

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Early Tuesday morning, my friend Joe lost his battle with cancer. I got the news while I was at work tonight, and I'm still stunned. Joe...
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Saturday, April 12, 2008

If you were going to a Con...

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...what kind of panels would you like to see? Every year, MileHiCon asks its participants to suggest ideas for panels. This is one of the re...
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