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upcoming Bujold appearances

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/26462304-upcoming-bujold-appearances

So...

I will be a local writer guest/panelist at this year's Minicon 59 here in Minneapolis, April 2 - 5. Writer GoH is Patricia C. Wrede!

https://mnstf.org/minicon59/

for further information of all kinds.

On Saturday May 16th at 1 PM, I am going to be doing a signing at Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore, also here in Minneapolis.

http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/index.s...

Mostly in honor of the 4th Penric collection in hardcover from Baen Books, Penric's Intrigues, which will be released the first week of May. My box of author's copies arrived from the printer yesterday, and they look great!

Meanwhile, the Subterranean Press signed limited edition of the Pen & Des novella "The Adventure of the Demonic Ox" is delayed at their printer, which is not an uncommon glitch for them. It is available for pre-order at SubPress -- https://subterraneanpress.com/bujold-... -- and also at Uncle Hugo's and Dreamhaven bookstores, here in MPLS.

(In a complete side note of idle curiosity, does anyone have any idea why I've been getting such a spate of likes for my first review of The Rivers of London this past week or so? It's normal to get a trickle of likes for my assorted old reviews, but not so many at once.)

Ta, L.

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on March, 20

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/26462304-upcoming-bujold-appearances

Performing some traffic maintenance today

Happy Saturday!

I'm going to be doing a little maintenance today. It will likely cause a tiny interruption of service (specifically for www.dreamwidth.org) on the order of 2-3 minutes while some settings propagate. If you're on a journal page, that should still work throughout!

If it doesn't work, the rollback plan is pretty quick, I'm just toggling a setting on how traffic gets to the site. I'll update this post if something goes wrong, but don't anticipate any interruption to be longer than 10 minutes even in a rollback situation.

Planets and Bright Stars

https://xkcd.com/3219/

An old astronomer trick for distinguishing the Sun from other stars is to take multiple photos a few minutes apart and overlay them, making the Sun stand out due to its high proper motion.

https://xkcd.com/3219/

Subduction Retrieval

https://xkcd.com/3218/

Aww, the oceanic crust and the continental crust are getting married!

https://xkcd.com/3218/

another scam warning

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/26435375-another-scam-warning

My friend Pat Wrede (Patricia C. Wrede) writes to me:

"This is just to let you know that a Facebook "fan page" for me has been hacked; we're working on getting it fixed, but it is going to take time because I didn't set the thing up myself. In the meantime, I'm told that scammers do this to try to get followers' emails and use them to request money. I get money from fans buying my books, not from asking for handouts. Please pass the word around.

I am not sure whether they can only get at people who "Follow" the Facebook page, or whether they can follow links to other writers, but I figured I should warn people."

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That goes for me as well; the only thing I'd ever want from my fans is to buy my books. Or at least read my books. I don't want your passwords, either...

As far as I know, the scammer/s who has/have been impersonating me on X is/are still around. I am not on X, never will be, don't vet manuscripts, etc. etc. My internet interfaces are this Goodreads blog, and its mirror site on Facebook run by a volunteer fan (bless her) where I can't answer anything (or, given FB's blockage screens, read much) though it does serve me as a signal boost.

Ta, L.

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on March, 10

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/26435375-another-scam-warning

Home Remedies

https://xkcd.com/3217/

As always, you are permitted to call one person for guidance, but that person must be a grandparent.

https://xkcd.com/3217/

Entry tags:

Fic: Rules of Catharsis

Title: Rules of Catharsis
Author: nostalgicatsea
Universe: MCU
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 266
Summary: Contrition alone could neither save nor damn him. Only the wronged held that power. But Tony was gone, unable to answer him, and Steve wondered who else could grant him the reprieve that came through absolution or castigation.
Note: This is more implied Steve/Tony and is heavily focused on Pepper & Steve and Steve & Morgan, but since Tony haunts the entire fic and drives Steve through it, I decided to include the Steve/Tony tag.

Read on AO3 or Dreamwidth.

Entry tags:

Fic: In Passing

Title: In Passing
Author: nostalgicatsea
Universe: MCU
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word Count: 153
Summary: There is only this, only here and now. It takes Steve eleven years of transience to accept this, eleven years too late.

Read on AO3 or Dreamwidth.

more AI hallucinations

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/26430326-more-ai-hallucinations

Ran across this one this morning...

" 1. Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold
Cover of 'Memory' by Lois McMaster Bujold

In this captivating science fiction novel, a young woman named Dag is tasked with the responsibility of restoring the lost memories of a society that has been stripped of its past. As she delves into the secrets of memory manipulation, she uncovers a shocking conspiracy that threatens to unravel the very fabric of her world. With her determination and resilience, Dag must navigate through a web of deceit and danger to uncover the truth and save her people from a future devoid of their collective memories."

For the love of mike, people, don't trust AI for anything. Though I suppose most readers of this blog know that by now.

I mean, it's horribly hilarious, but I suspect other AIs will grep this very post, and dismember and replicate its contents all over the internet in a feedback loop of lunacy. Sort of like an ignorance virus.

Sigh, L.

posted by Lois McMaster Bujold on March, 08

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/26430326-more-ai-hallucinations