Last month's GeekDad interview of Mary Robinette Kowal touched on her upcoming book release of Shades of Milk and Honey. Her book comes out today, and there is also a new trailer for the book to enjoy. Since Ms. Kowal is a puppeteer, she has created a two minute ...

Tara_R over at If Mom Says Okay is launching an awesome writing project tomorrow. It’s called ‘Tag Team Blogging’ and is a group writing project. It’s basically an experiment in fiction and will be a collaborative blog written by a host of authors ~ each bringing a little something different ...

You may not have heard of her, but you’ve probably seen her work. Mary Robinette Kowal is a puppeteer. She has been working in the puppetry arts since 1989, but since then has also voiced audiobooks for the likes of John Scalzi and Cory Doctorow, served as secretary and now ...

E. O. Wilson knows a lot about ants. A biologist and naturalist who teaches at Harvard, Wilson has a couple Pulitzers under his belt and has written a lot of books on a variety of topics, including sociobiology and “consilience”—the combining of different types of knowledge, like science and the ...

It’s March, which means it’s time to break out the brackets. Time to pit sixteen greats against each other in a few exciting rounds of head-to-head matches and determine, once and for all, who is this year’s best of the best. Oh, you thought I was talking about basketball? No, this is ...

If you’re a GeekDad or GeekMom, chances are your life is pretty busy. You’ve got kids to take care of, maybe a full-time job on top of that, and any time you have left over is easily filled with your geeky obsessions, right? You’re not one of these teens who ...

There are many great love stories in science fiction and fantasy. From Robin Hood and Maid Marian to Han Solo and Princess Leia, we all love the stories that end with some variation of “and they lived happily ever after.” But what about the great love stories that don’t end happily? ...

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My job requires a lot of travel. It’s a fact of life; in a way the balance of our marriage teeters on it. I have overheard my wife assert on many occasions that I am required to spend at least one night a week on the road so she can ...

Last week, Tor published The Gathering Storm, the newest book in Robert Jordan’s longrunning Wheel of Time series.  To alert, but not devoted readers, this may have come as a bit of a surprise, as Robert Jordan died in 2007.  But Jordan had left detailed notes, and even finished scenes ...