- 18 January 2010: NSFW: Boinkwurst Taxonomy, Book View Cafe blog.
- If you follow my Tweets (see sidebar), you may get a sneak peek at my Book View Cafe Sunday Specials.
- 14 January 2010:Show R*sh L*mb**gh your opinion of his comments about Haiti. Donate to a good cause such as Médecins Sans Frontiêres or Partners in Health
- 27 December 2009: Chapter 2 of The Starfarers Quartet at Book View Cafe.
- 26 December 2009: Resignation from Author’ Guild. Scriviner’s Error presents a pretty good description of why.
- 20 December 2009: The Starfarers Quartet debuts at Book View Cafe with Starfarers, Book 1 of the series. Read the BVC online serial one chapter per week for free, or buy the ebook for $4.99.
- 25 October 2009: The return of the long-lost trailer for the best tv miniseries never made, Starfarers. See the trailer and help cast the imaginary production at Book View Cafe Blog.
- 21 October 2009: Birthday greetings to Ursula K. Le Guin, on the occasion of her 80th birthday.
- 18 October 2009: “Casting Starfarers” — Help me cast the (imaginary, alas) tv miniseries of the Starfarers Quartet.
- 17 October 2009: Dream for Jeanne (Robinson) benefit auction of A Winter Solstice Ritual from the Pacific Northwest raised $100+! Monsoons prevented me from mailing it this afternoon. Monday for sure.
- September through Christmas 2009 at Book View Cafe: Free serial of Superluminal. Visitors may read Superluminal in serial form, one chapter per week, or they may buy Superluminal in its first legitimate ebook edition. The price is $4.99, which includes access to several ebook formats. Special offer: In addition, for a limited time, readers who buy a copy of the mint hardcover of Superluminal from Basement Full of Books may request a free copy of the ebook.
- 6 October 2009: Dream for Jeanne (Robinson) benefit auction continues on eBay. Help heat up the bidding for A Winter Solstice Ritual from the Pacific Northwest, by Ursula K. Le Guin and Vonda N. McIntyre, signed by both authors. Chapbook from Ygor & Buntho Make Books Press.
- 1 October 2009: Annalee Newitz of IO9 says nice things about Superluminal.
- 27 September 2009: Book View Cafe Blog publishes the fantasy cast of the imaginary movie of Dreamsnake. Comments enabled.
- 17 September 2009:
Dream for Jeanne Auction. The benefit auction for Jeanne Robinson includes a first edition copy of Superluminal (boxed limited edition), and a copy of Fireflood and Other Stories, by BVC founding member Vonda N. McIntyre. The auction continues through 23 September 2009.
- 15 September: Sue Lange interviews me for SF Signal.
- 13 September 2009 at Book View Cafe: Superluminal in its first legitimate ebook edition. The price is $4.99, which includes access to several ebook formats. In addition, for a limited time, readers who buy a copy of the mint hardcover of Superluminal from Basement Full of Books may request a free copy of the ebook.
- Bat Cam! A not very good but very close picture of Myotis californicus. I’m going to get some bat boxes so bats can hang out and not be disturbed when I open the yurt window curtains.
- Book View Cafe is reprinting “Pitfalls of Writing SF & Fantasy” during the next few weeks. I blog regularly on Sundays.
- My Book, the Movie has posted my essay on the dream cast for the imaginary movie of Dreamsnake. Comment at Casting Dreamsnake: Update on the Book View Cafe Blog.
- Sundays at Book View Cafe: Dreamsnake ebook: In its first legitimate electronic edition, Dreamsnake is now available at Book View Cafe. It will be serialized one chapter per week, for free, or readers may subscribe to the eBook edition, available in Palm/Mobipocket .prc format, html, and PDF. Visit Novels by Vonda N. McIntyre at BVC for more details.
- Sundays at Book View Cafe: The Moon and the Sun continues, featured on Sundays at Book View Cafe, in electronic form for the first time. Mobile-device-friendly formats available.
- Mystery Flower, at Book View Cafe Blog.
- Star Trek interview at Forces of Geek.
- 1-4 May 2009 (production); 8 May (results): 72-hour film competition.
- 26 April 2009: “Dreamsnake the ebook”
- 19 April 2009: “Remembering My Mom”
- 12 April 2009: “Casting Dreamsnake” — A call for suggestions for the perfect fantasy cast. Who could play Merideth?
- 7 April 2009: You can follow me at Twitter. Or use the Twitter Widget.
- 5 April 2009: My Year in LA: The Sci Fi Channel Interview, or, Vonda Encounters Makeup.
- 29 March 2009: “Myths.” Is an urban myth still urban if it’s in Yellowstone National Park? Some myths deserve to be left alone.
- 22 March 2009: “Insidious”
- 15 March 2009: Shake Up Your Brain Books: Fiction
- 11 March 2009:
“LADeDeDa,” by Ursula K. Le Guin and Vonda N. McIntyre, will appear in the "Futures" column of the science journal Nature, in its 12 March 2009 issue. (Requires subscription)
- 8 March 2009: Science Badges, in which your humble correspondent claims several merit badges from the Science Creative Quarterly, and reminisces about being rejected by The New Yorker.
- 1 March 2009: Road Trip Blog Bytes, in which your humble correspondent braves monsoon and fog and views a giant sundial.
- 22 February 2009: Mr. Spock’s Dad, in which your humble correspondent meets Mark Lenard, and becomes tongue-tied.
- 15 February 2009: Writing Star Trek Novels, or, Why don’t you get a morally acceptable job? “...Pretty much the only drawback was that some of my colleagues took exception to my polluting my precious bodily fluids with evil tie-in novels....”
- 8 February 2009: Shake-up-your-brain books.
- 1 February 2009: My Year in L.A. (Day One & Day Last): Moving in, moving out; the Man from UNCLE in the driveway.
- 28 January 2009: New offsite links
- 25 January 2009: The Contenders Head for the Finish Line: More entries in the Bad Cover Contest, including the only one so far that challenges Droomslang for the honors (?).
- 18 January 2009: More on Movies — The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Brother from Another Planet, and Hollywood recollections.
- 11 January 2009: Rise of the Lichens: A celebration of a movie about ancient forms of life.
- 4 January 2009: The Contendahs for the Bad Cover Contest. I’m not giving up Droomslang’s trophy yet.
- 28 December 2008: Bad Cover Competition. I propose the Dutch cover of Dreamsnake, Droomslang, as the worst SF cover ever published. Try to best (worst?) it.
- 21 December 2008: Book View Café front page features The Moon and the Sun in electronic format for the first time. Mobile-device-friendly formats available.
- 21 December 2008: “Jigsaw Puzzle”
- 14 December 2008: Book View Café front page features The Moon and the Sun in electronic format for the first time. Mobile-device-friendly formats available.
- 14 December 2008: “The Collecting Bug”
- 7 December 2008: Book View Café front page features The Moon and the Sun in electronic format for the first time. Mobile-device-friendly formats available.
- 7 December 2008: “Stomp, Scratch, and Snack, or, The McIntyre Sisters Encounter a Bear” by VNM
- 5 December 2008: Benefit Auction
- 30 November 2008: “Misprint” — Flash fiction from Nature Futures.
- 30 November 2008: Book View Café front page features The Moon and the Sun in electronic format for the first time. Mobile-device-friendly formats available.
- 30 November 2008: “Iceoglyphs,” by VNM
- 23 November 2008: Book View Café front page features The Moon and the Sun in electronic format for the first time. Mobile-device-friendly formats available.
- 23 November 2008: “Toward a Grand Unified Theory of Food Bugs,” by VNM
- 18 November 2008: “Shake Up Your Brain,” Guest editor at audible.com — November 2008
- 16 November 2008: Book View Café offers The Moon and the Sun in electronic format for the first time. Other formats available.
- 16 November 2008: Book View Café Bonus: “The Natural History and Extinction of the People of the Sea,” by Vonda N. McIntyre, illustrated by Ursula K. Le Guin. First publication.
- 16 November 2008: “Everybody Needs a Hobby” at Book View Café Blog: Notes and pictures on the invention and construction of beaded sea creatures.
- 15 November 2008: Book View Café debuts,
- 15 November 2008: Website redesign.
- November 2008: A new Pitfall of Writing SF & Fantasy: “Size Matters!”
- November 2008: More formats for fiction available on the website: PDF and Palm/Mobipocket (.prc).
- 18 July 2008: “A Modest Proposal...” now available in Mobipocket (.prc) format.
- 17 July 2008: “A Modest Proposal...” on Starship Sofa podcast, Aural Delights #33. Excellently narrated by Amy H. Sturgis. [offsite links]
- 17 July 2008: “The Adventure of the Field Theorems,” now available in Mobipocket (.prc) format. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle hires Mr. Sherlock Holmes to investigate crop circles; and Dr Watson demonstrates the uses of astronomy.
- 30 June 2008: Downloadable audiobooks from audible.com [offsite link]
- 8 June 2008: “Elfleda”
- 5 July 2007: Featherless Boa donation to the Susan C. Petrey Scholarship Fund Auction
- 29 June 2007: Schedule Update
- 26 April 2007: Online fiction update: "The Adventure of the Field Theorems."
- 27 February 2007: Nebula Nomination for "Little Faces"
- 26 February 2007: Online fiction update
- 12 February 2007: Schedule update
- 24 January 2007: New Bead Creatures
- 1 November 2006: "Little Faces"
- 26 August 2006: "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand"
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