Month: April 2007

Doing Research

I should really pay more attention to what’s happening in Dutch fiction. For the story I’m working on, I contacted the public information service of the Amsterdam police force for details on how they handle 112 calls* and homicide scenes. After a few weeks, I received an extensive reply from one of their detectives. I […]

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You Know Technology Is Advancing Rapidly When…

… you pass the time during a long flight by playing games, and are defeated at chess by the reclining seat in front of you.

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Iceberg Technology

Waiting for a bridge to close on my way home today, I realized there is a class of technology of which we see only a little bit in our daily lives. I’m not thinking of devices we don’t see at all, underground or secret installations or such, but machines of which the bit we see […]

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The Editor Giveth, The Editor Taketh

Lest the encouraging message from the Dark Wisdom assistant editor rise to my head, Sheila Williams of Asimov’s Science Fiction sent a form rejection letter for ‘Diamond Sharks’. She took her time about it, too: while their own guidelines claim a return time of about 5 weeks, I’d been waiting 4 months for a response. […]

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