Curses! John Scalzi, who wrote the awesome sci-fi novel Old Man’s War, was in Greenville for some “author’s night” thing last Friday, and I didn’t find out about it till today. I would have really liked to meet the man and get a book signed. That’s right: I’m a big geek, and I’m fucking proud about it.
Scalzi also runs a badass blog, the Whatever, and writes in it quite a bit. An unholy amount, actually. And yet he still has found the time to publish two books in 2006, and, like, eighteen next year. And they’re good too. Anyway, if you enjoy science fiction of any sort, I highly recommend Old Man’s War. Hell, even if the closest you’ve gotten to anything even resembling science fiction is Star Wars, you should read OMW. I mean, really — what else do you have to do with your free time? Loser.
I missed Scalzi, yes, but I do have a chance to see another author I like. Bob Mayer (pseudonymously known as Robert Doherty, author of the Area 51 series of books) is going to be at Books and Co. this Tuesday with Jennifer Crusie, his collaborator on their most recent book, Don’t Look Down. Crusie writes funny romance books (so I’ve heard, at least; I don’t read that yechy crap) and Mayer writes military thriller/sci-fi, so DLD is being described as a romantic adventure with a lot of humor. Haven’t had a chance to buy it yet, but it’s supposed to be quite good. They, too, have a blog, which is pretty entertaining: He Wrote, She Wrote. I’d like to meet Mayer and get some swag signed; however, I don’t want to be a big crazy loser and go by myself, so I’ll probably pass. ‘Twould be neat, though.
JAB
5 Responses to “MEET N’ GREET”
Ah if only we’d known. Course the Bob Mayer thing is funny, if only I didn’t work. Ah well, now the temptation to smack the man for writing such a crappy ending to Area 51 won’t exist.
Hopefully that Jennifer girl is a babe and you can be all like “If you were our president, you’d be Baberaham Lincoln!” and then everyone can laugh all slow cause you slowed it down with Sound Recorder.
Um, and also, I did not receive an email about this post. What is up with that.
I forgot to send out an email for this one.
I’ve actually been thinking about discontinuing the email update thing. Only, like, three people get it, and they really aren’t that interesting (the emails, not the people). So we’ll see; if I do discontinue them, I’ll make some sort of announcement.
JAB
who receives them other than nate and I?
My friend, Adam, and Nate’s ex, Erin.
JAB
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