Hugo, Nebula, and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award—nominated author

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Submission draft of memoir completed

A revised draft of William Shunn's memoir The Accidental Terrorist: My Adventures as a Foot Soldier in the Mormon Army is at last complete and delivered to his agent for submission. The book chronicles his months as an LDS missionary in Canada, which culminated with his arrest, conviction, and deportation for an unfortunate incident involving a commercial passenger jet. An earlier draft of The Accidental Terrorist was serialized in Shunn's podcast, the relevant episodes of which are still available for downloading.

upcoming event

August 6-10, 2008

66th World Science Fiction Convention, Denver, Colorado, USA

Bill and his intrepid wife Laura Chavoen will be attending the 66th World Science Fiction Convention this summer in Denver, Colorado.

latest blog entries

May 15, 2008

Celebrity sightings, Chicago-style

Our celebrity sightings have definitely tailed off since we moved to Chicago, but Laura and one of her colleagues had a good one the other day. At the same hot dog joint where they were grabbing lunch, they spotted Dennis DeYoung of Styx.

(I'd suggest that he had too much time on his hands, but Tommy Shaw took the lead vocal on that track.)

Midnight near the oasis

On our upcoming Egyptian vacation, we take an overnight train to Aswan. We splurged on a sleeper car, because how cool is it to ride a sleeper car in North Africa? And we plan to join the Eight Feet High Club.

May 13, 2008

Circus money

There's no way on earth that I'm the world's biggest Steely Dan fan, but I like to think I'm up there in the top thousand. This may explain why I'm so stoked that, after 2006's Morph the Cat from Donald Fagen, we're about to get Circus Money from Walter Becker!

Circus Money | Walter Becker

Check out the first single, "Somebody's Saturday Night", streamed from Rolling Stone:

We'll be seeing Becker and Fagen together this July at the Chicago Theater....

Recent Fiction

Current Reading

  • 101 Stories, O. Henry
  • The Jack Vance Treasury, edited by Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan
  • Vellum, Hal Duncan
  • Accelerando, Charles Stross
  • A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge
  • Little, Big, John Crowley
  • The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language, Christine Kenneally
  • Soldier of the Mist, Gene Wolfe
  • The Last Witchfinder, James Morrow
  • Brasyl, Ian McDonald
  • Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson
  • Ulysses, James Joyce
  • The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
  • The John Varley Reader
 


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