I came late to the fantasy world of Terry Pratchett, and I might never have come there at all if hadn’t been for A.S. Byatt. In 2011 in Amsterdam I interviewed her for Trouw, and afterward we were talking about her book Ragnarok and science fiction when she asked me if I had read Pratchett. […]

Here, belatedly, are a couple of photos from the talk in Leipzig on “100 Jahre James Tiptree Jr.,” the first event of the Alice Sheldon year. I shared a panel with three of the people involved in publishing the complete works of Alice Sheldon in German: writer and translator Frank Böhmert; translator Elvira Bittner, and […]

Radio producer Eric Molinsky interviewed me in New York in October for a half-hour podcast on James Tiptree, Jr. At the time I I thought I was brilliant. Listening to it now I think that must have been a jet-lag-induced illusion. But Eric did a terrific job. It makes me wish there were recordings of […]

Saturday, March 14, I’ll be at the Leipzig Book Fair for a special reading marking Alice Sheldon’s 100th year, organized by my fab German publisher, Septime Verlag. More info at www.leipziger-buchmesse.de.

In honor of grammar nerds everywhere I’ve put together what I could find about Mustapha Ourrad, the copy editor at Charlie Hebdo.

Is Charlie Hebdo racist? I’ve been getting into discussions and wanted to say something about what I think is a deep European-American divide.

Thanks to the organizers of Elstercon and my German publisher, Septime Verlag in Vienna, for bringing me to Leipzig to talk about James Tiptree, Jr. …

“Why are things as they are? Must they be as they are? What might they be like if they were otherwise? To ask these questions is to admit the contingency of reality, or at least to allow that our perception of reality may be incomplete… There really is nothing to fear in fantasy unless you are afraid of the freedom of uncertainty.” —Ursula K. Le Guin

September 19-21 I’ll be appearing in Leipzig at Elstercon 2014, talking about James Tiptree, Jr., with my award-winning German translator, Margo Jane Warnken. Appropriately enough, considering Tiptree’s work, the theme of the con is “Crime Scene: The Future.”