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Kim Stanley Robinson's latest novel, Shaman, has now been released in paperback by Orbit!
What's it about? In just three paragraphs, you have it from Stan himself in this little piece for Kindle Amazon.
"When a five thousand year-old body emerged from
a glacier in the Alps in 1991, it immediately became one of the greatest finds
in archeological history, because all the dead man's gear had been frozen and
preserved with him. [...] I thought He was just like me."
Stan and Ursula K Le Guin (do I need to introduce her?) finally did a first event together after knowing each other for nearly 40 years! In February, the Spring Creek Project sponsored a
symposium entitled "Transformation Without Apocalypse: How to Live Well
on an Altered Planet", at Oregon State University. Stan and Ursula read from their own work and from each other's work, with passages from 2312, Shaman and poems. This is a historic appearance, very heartwarming, although the atmosphere in the room can't be felt through that video alone I suppose.
More videos of older events have surfaced too. Stan participated in the Arizona State University Origins project, with the Great Debate Transcending Our Origins: Violence, Humanity, and the Future. He was on the panel "The Future: From Medicine and Synthetic Biology to Machine Intelligence" along with scientists and notable experts Richard Dawkins, Craig Venter, Esther Dyson, Eric Horvitz, George Poste and Randolph Nesse discussing the future of new biomedical and robotic technologies and their impact on humanity. The whole panel video was posted on the internet, you can watch it here: Part 1 & Part 2. Stan's 7-min pitch of how we could live fuller liveshas been posted separately, it's a concentration of many of the ideas he has been putting forward in recent years:
So: Laws and "software" of how we run our societies as technologies. Constitutions as science fiction concepts. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth" as a science fiction short story (future tense). Those are some ideas! In a related interview for Decode DC, "What can Mars teach us about politics on Earth?" (direct audio), Robinson discusses these ideas and others that he has developed throughout his career -- for example the citizens' duma in Blue Mars.
In October 2013, Stan and social media professor McKenzie Wark
did a discussion at Eugene Lang College in New York. Stan read from
Shaman and they discussed in depth the thoughts behind the book, how we
used to live, what technologies we developed, Neanderthals, and of
course taking it from there and on to 2312 and our future, and also on
writing SF and "speculative realism" and on readers of SF and fantasy. Part 1 here; Part 2 is audience Q&A. The sound on the video is not that good.
Additionally, McKenzie Wark interviewed Stan for the Los Angeles Review of Books: "A Functional Form Has Its Own Beauty". A great interview, some selected parts:
Finally, somebody asks the sex question! -- an aspect of 2312 I felt was not discussed enough:
I feel I've been taught a lot about gender by science fiction, including books by Joanna Russ, Samuel Delany, Ursula Le Guin, and others, and also by the science-fiction community, which has a flourishing LGBT component, pretty well integrated with the rest of it. Also I was very struck by my own experiences as a "Mr. Mom" when I did the home parenting for our two children, especially when they were infants and toddlers. I wanted to write about that again, as I did in the Science In the Capital trilogy, but from a different angle, to express the feeling that grew in me that gender as feeling is labile and not related to bodies per se.
A great description of how essentially all of his novels work:
I've been much influenced by Bahktin's image of the novel as polyvocal, what he calls a heteroglossia (another great word!), so that it isn't so much the novelist as a single visionary but rather something more like an old-time telephone switchboard operator, plugging in different voices and then orchestrating the flow of that chorus, so to speak. So you get chances for different points of view to speak or argue in dialogues or larger discussions, and the plots themselves also express these arguments in actions.
On writing a lot about everyday habits:
As for changing one's habits, that is so mysterious. Again from Proust; there is the moment when you are cast into a new situation and have to change habits, and I think it was Beckett in his slim book on Proust who spoke of these moments as the true existential exposure, the naked times when you are alive without the protection of your habits, and have to think what to do moment by moment, actually decide, until you settle into (I think Beckett called it exfoliating) into a new set of habits and are somewhat protected again from that existential nakedness. This seems right to me, this is how it has felt for me, and I am very interested to try to write these moments, and present these moments as central to a plot.
On the scientific "vs" the religious world views:
Not only in Shaman but in the rest of my science fiction, I've been interested to cross all these ways of knowing, to think about science as a kind of religious activity, and definitely as a secretly hegemonic culture within our other various cultures, while at the same time thinking about Buddhism or art as versions of scientific thinking, or some other permanently valid way of looking at things. The permanent necessity of philosophy and art, basically, so that we can decide what to do — that isn't a question science takes on or wants to take on.
Often in my novels all these aspects are mashed together in the characters' lives, and in the plots.
On using words like Coriolis and katabatic a lot (I love how McKenzie Wark has spotted this!):
I like to use words out of the sciences that particularize physical processes (or generalize them) in ways ordinary language doesn't usually. In fact many of these words are simply Greek or Latin, or mash-ups of the two languages, but they suggest a scientific precision that strikes me as both writerly (like, say, Joyce) and also comic, in the sense of Mr. Spock explaining his Spocklike thinking. Hippocampus, de-intensification, hierarchicalization, etc., etc., it goes on and on and is both funny and sharp, and musical too, in ways I like.
Finally, the calendar on the left has been updated with summer and fall events, including a European tour for the Worldcon in August and more! There's also a 2015 event -- more on that later.
Over May 16-18, the Smithsonian Magazine organized "The Future Is Here: Science meets Science Fiction | Imagination, Inspiration and Invention" – an event with many panelists, from scientists and engineers and astronauts to inventors and actors and writers – and Kim Stanley Robinson was among them, for a panel on "Humanity in the Solar System".
The event resulted in an article in the Smithsonian Magazine, on "How America's Leading Science Fiction Authors Are Shaping Your Future", with interviews of SF authors Kim Stanley Robinson, Cory Doctorow, William Gibson, Ursula Le Guin, Ted Chiang or Neal Stephenson, on the relationship between science, technology and SF, the utopian and dystopian strands of SF and on how SF shapes our imagination on the future. As Delany says,
"The variety of worlds science fiction accustoms us to, through imagination, is training for thinking about the actual changes—sometimes catastrophic, often confusing—that the real world funnels at us year after year. It helps us avoid feeling quite so gob-smacked."
According to Robinson:
"Science fiction represents how people in the present feel about the future," Robinson says. "That's why 'big ideas' were prevalent in the 1930s, '40s and partly in the '50s. People felt the future would be better, one way or another. Now it doesn't feel that way. Rich people take nine-tenths of everything and force the rest of us to fight over the remaining tenth, and if we object to that, we are told we are espousing class warfare and are crushed. They toy with us for their entertainment, and they live in ridiculous luxury while we starve and fight each other. This is what The Hunger Games embodies in a narrative, and so the response to it has been tremendous, as it should be."
(Picture on top by Mehreen Murtaza)Robinson along with Gerry Canavan (assistant professor of English at Marquette University) recently edited together a book of "essays exploring the relationship between environmental disaster and visions of apocalypse through the lens of science fiction", Green Planets. Synopsis:
Contemporary visions of the future have been shaped by hopes and fears about the effects of human technology and global capitalism on the natural world. In an era of climate change, mass extinction, and oil shortage, such visions have become increasingly catastrophic, even apocalyptic. Exploring the close relationship between science fiction, ecology, and environmentalism, the essays in Green Planets consider how science fiction writers have been working through this crisis. Beginning with H. G. Wells and passing through major twentieth-century writers like Ursula K. Le Guin, Stanislaw Lem, and Thomas Disch to contemporary authors like Margaret Atwood, China Miéville, and Paolo Bacigalupi—as well as recent blockbuster films like Avatar and District 9—the essays in Green Planets consider the important place for science fiction in a culture that now seems to have a very uncertain future. The book includes an extended interview with Kim Stanley Robinson and an annotated list for further exploration of "ecological SF" and related works of fiction, nonfiction, films, television, comics, children's cartoons, anime, video games, music, and more. Contributors include Christina Alt, Brent Bellamy, Sabine Höhler, Adeline Johns-Putra, Melody Jue, Rob Latham, Andrew Milner, Timothy Morton, Eric C. Otto, Michael Page, Christopher Palmer, Gib Prettyman, Elzette Steenkamp, Imre Szeman.
Gerry Canavan describes the book thusly:
The essays in Green Planets are predicated on the proposition that two hundred years of SF can help us collectively "think" this leap into futurity in the context of the epochal mass-extinction event called the Anthropocene (which the literary theorists more simply call "modernity"). SF is our culture's vast, shared, polyvocal archive of the possible; from techno-utopias to apocalypses to ecotopian fortunate falls, it is thetransmedia genre of SF that has first attempted to articulate the sorts of systemic global changes that are imminent, or already happening, and begins to imagine what our transformed planet might eventually be like for those who will come to live on it. Especially taken in the context of escalating ecological catastrophe, in which each new season seems to bring with it some new and heretofore-unseen spectacular disaster, my coeditor's well-known declaration that in the contemporary moment "the world has become a science fiction novel" has never seemed more true or more frightening. Indeed, such a notion suggests both politics and "realism" are now always "inside" science fiction, insofar as the world, as we experience its vertiginous technological and ecological flux, now more closely resembles SF than it does any historical realism…
A kind-of-excerpt of the book by Canavan, an essay on "Dystopia, Anti-Utopia, and the End of the World", is up at SF Signal!
Staying on the topic of sci-fi, "cli-fi" and scientific news, writer Tony White links all these on the occasion of the publication of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report – a big event that happens about every seven years, and with each report raising the level of certainty that climate change is happening, that it is man-made, and that the situation is more and more urgent for us to move towards adapting our energy system, infrastructures, ways of life, to emit less. In discussing the publication, White discusses the Climate Outreach Information Network and references Robinson's talks and their role in informing and inspiring change (specifically, Stan's talk at MOMA/PS1 in New York last year).The Long View of climate change is also the focus of this New York Times article, where Andrew C. Revkin interviews to paleoclimatologist Curt Stager, Robinson, and astrobiologist David Grinspoon on how humans will deal with climate change impacts – our paleolithic roots (Shaman) and the Venice-like New York (2312) are of course referenced!
Coming soon: Some more panels with Stan. There will be videos!
Boom - A Journal of California met Kim Stanley Robinson at his home and writing spot in Davis, California, for an extensive interview. His childhood, writing, science fiction, science, capitalism, utopia, his Three Californias trilogy, John Muir, and the history and landscape of California were addressed. Some excerpts:
Boom: Is there a special brand of California science fiction?Robinson: I think so. It began with people like Jack London and Upton Sinclair, and then the Los Angeles Science Fiction Society in the 1940s. This included Ray Bradbury, who moved with his parents to Los Angeles when he was young, like I did, both of us from Waukegan, Illinois, but him maybe twenty years earlier. Bradbury was always focused on what modernization was doing to human beings, to the nontechnological aspects of humanity. There was also Robert Heinlein, who was living in Los Angeles in the forties. Crazy Bob they called him when he was young. He was always a strange amalgam. And then there was Philip K. Dick in northern California, also Poul Anderson and Jack Vance, Frank Herbert, and in her childhood, Ursula Le Guin. It turns out that many of the most interesting science fiction writers were in California. There's something strange and powerful about California, as a landscape and an idea, so the place may have inspired the literature.Boom: Your Three Californias trilogy lays out very different visions for California's future. Which of the three Californias would you want to live in?Robinson: Pacific Edge without a doubt. Pacific Edge was my first attempt to think about what would it be like if we reconfigured the landscape, the infrastructure, the social systems of California. I think eventually that's where we'll end up. It may be a five hundred year project. I thought of it as my utopian novel. But the famous problem of utopian novels as a genre is that they are cut off from history. They always somehow get a fresh start. I thought the interesting game to play would be to try to graft my utopia onto history and presume that we could trace the line from our current moment to the moment in the book. I don't think I succeeded. I wish I had had the forethought to add about twenty pages of expository material on how they got to that society. Later I had a lot of dissatisfactions with Pacific Edge. You can't have this gap in the history where the old man says, well, we did it, but never explains how. But every time I tried to think of the details it was like—well, Ernest Callenbach wrote Ecotopia, and then explained how they got to it in Ecotopia Emerging. And there's not a single sentence in that prequel that you can believe. So, Pacific Edge was my attempt, a first attempt, and I think it's still a nice vision of what Southern California could be. That coastal plain is so nice. From Santa Barbara to San Diego is the most gorgeous Mediterranean environment. And we've completely screwed it. To me now, it's kind of a nightmare. When I go down there it creeps me out. I hope to spend more of my life in San Diego, which is one of my favorite places. But I'll probably stick to west of the coast highway and stay on the beach as much as I can. I'll deal, but we can do so much better.Boom: In The Gold Coast, your dystopian novel in the California trilogy, and in your other dystopian novels, are you issuing a warning about where we're headed?Robinson: I am issuing a warning, yes. That's one thing science fiction does. There are two sides of that coin, utopian and dystopian. The dystopian side is, if we continue, we will end up at this bad destination and we won't like it. That's worth doing sometimes. But I won't do the apocalypse. That is not realist. It is more of a religious statement. I like disaster without apocalypse. Gold Coast is dystopian. And a lot of it has come true since it came out in 1988.Boom: Do you think there is something special California can contribute to this utopian project?Robinson: I do. I think we're a working utopian project in progress, between the landscape and the fact that California has an international culture, with all our many languages. It's got the UC system and the Cal State system, the whole master plan, all the colleges together, and Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. It's some kind of miraculous conjunction. But conjunctions don't last for long. And history may pass us by eventually, but for now it's a miraculous conjunction of all of these forces. So I love California. Often when I go abroad and I'm asked where I'm from, I say California rather than America. California is an integral space that I admire. And we're doing amazing things politically. I like the way the state is trending more left than the rest of America. And San Francisco is the great city of the world. I love San Francisco. I think of myself as living in its provinces—and provincials, of course, are often the ones who are proudest of the capital. And many of my San Francisco friends exhibit a civic pride that is intense, and I think justified. So there's something going on here in California. I do think it's somewhat accidental; so to an extent, it's pride in an accident, or maybe you could say in a collective, in our particular history. So there's no one thing or one person or group that can say, ah, we did it! It just kind of happened to us, in that several generations kept bashing away, and here we are. But when you have that feeling and it goes on, and continues to win elections and create environmental regulations, the clean air, the clean water, saving the Sierra, saving the coast: it's all kind of beautiful. Maybe the state itself is doing it. Maybe this landscape itself is doing it.
Another utopia and climate change-focused article by Stan is up at IAI TV (a reprint from Australian magazine Arena).
The Australian Yahoo interviewed Stan on his most recent novel, Shaman, and the way he goes about writing. Some excerpts:
The final piece of Shaman fell into place when Robinson saw photos of 32,000-year-old cave paintings from France's Chauvet cave (discovered in 1995). "I was so struck by their beauty and age I felt I had my story, " he says. "I'd tell the story of the people who painted that cave." [...]"I definitely enjoy my research, " he says. "It's reading with a purpose. I feel like I'm on the hunt, looking for good stories to tell, because I collect good stories from the research and retell them."The process often begins years in advance as Robinson collects books and web links that seem relevant to an idea he's been "brooding on". When starting a book, he then looks for whatever he has on hand that's useful, but when he starts writing, the process changes to what he calls "iterative". "Once I've written a draft of a scene I know much better what I need to know to make it better, and that directs subsequent research."
Stan also wrote in NPR for three recommendations of New Wave SF: Thomas M. Disch's Camp Concentration; Joanna Russ's The Female Man; and Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren.
And finally, you have one week left to submit a story to Stan! To The Best Of Our Knowledge, and partners University of Wisconsin's Center for the Humanities and the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, are running a competition for a 500-600 hard-SF story that would be turned into a radio play, the deadline is March 1!
We're looking for great sci-fi stories, based on real science and set in the near future. Sci-fi master Kim Stanley Robinson, best known for The Mars Trilogy, will choose the winner.The winning stories will be turned into radio plays, produced by To the Best of Our Knowledge and LA's Ensemble Studio Theatre, directed by Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation).
To your keyboards!
Kim Stanley Robinson's latest novel SHAMAN, out since September 2013, is coming out in paperback on June 10 2014. Meanwhile, it has entered the Locus Bestseller list for December for hardcovers (at #7) -- while 2312 has been released in paperback and has made it to #1 and is continuing its run! (September, October, November, December)
Despite Shaman's setting in the long past, or rather quite the contrary, enriched by that fact, the New Yorker's Tim Krieder published an article on Stan: "Our Greatest Political Novelist?", which draws from both his Mars trilogy and Shaman to make a major point:
Depending on your own politics, this [the Martian Constitution] may sound like millennia-overdue common sense or a bong-fuelled 3 A.M.
wish list, but there's no arguing that to implement it in the real
world circa 2013 would be, literally, revolutionary. My own bet would be
that either your grandchildren are going to be living by some of these
precepts, or else they won't be living at all. [...] I don't just
admire Robinson's ambitions or agree with his agenda; I'm not
recommending his books because they're good for you. Kim Stanley
Robinson is one of my favorite novelists, period. [...] The strength of his characterizations is inextricable from his power as a
political visionary; Robinson is realistic about human beings but
nonetheless optimistic about our capacity for change.
[...] Loon's tribe in "Shaman" isn't exactly a preagricultural
utopia—they're starving by the end of each winter—but it's still a
pretty benign view of man in his primeval state, closer to Rousseau than
[...] Wouldn't it ultimately be more optimistic to create a sort
of past-dystopia, showing us how far we've come? There's evidence to
suggest that prehistoric cultures would've seemed far more savage and
alien to us than Robinson imagines here. I suspect this is less a
failure of imagination on his part than a triumph of his convictions
over the evidence, a projection of his resolute optimism backwards
through time to show us that folks are basically the same all over. [...] What he's telling us over and over, like the voice of the Third Wind
whispering when all seems lost, is that it's not too late, don't get
scared, don't give up, we're almost there, we can do this, we just have
to keep going.
Let the debate begin!
Some more reviews for Shaman: Songs in Squee Minor ; The Sydney Morning Heraldand for 2312: Population GO
Stan participated again to Authors@Google last September, and read from Shaman and talked about creating the world of 30,000 years ago -- one of the great Shaman talks!
He also participated to a debate for iai tv on "Paradise...Lost?" with Marina Benjamin and Alex Callinicos:
Once a driving force of political change, utopian visions are now out
of fashion. But is this a lost opportunity or a new realism? Should
we create new utopias and thereby impel social advance, or will we
learn the lessons of history and remain sceptical of grand visions?
And so... happy new year 2014 AD!
SHAMAN has been out for a few months now, in hardcover. Shaman is also out as an audiobook: Hachette, Ambling Books, ... It is read by Graeme Malcolm.
Stan was interviewed for Focus, an Illinois radio. Listen to him talk about his Mars trilogy and Shaman, and reminisce extensively about authors that inspire him, Ursula Le Guin and Gene Wolfe.
Stan participated in an online Q&A chat at Firedoglake Book Salon
-- a nice way to interact with the author directly. The questions and
answers are many and the whole chat long to go through, but extremely informative; Stan's answers
only can be read here. Some interesting bits below:
On science fiction writing and worldbuilding:
They are similar processes, in that they are both settings and
societies that don't exist now, and so there has to be enough
information in the text for the reader to be able to envision them.
So this is a particular method of novel writing that includes
description as well as dramatized action, and it has to be fitted
into the story gracefully, if possible.
The paleolithic culture is one that really existed but which we
have to infer from very few remnants. A future society has not yet
existed, but presumably will still have elements of now that we know
well. So the absences that have to be filled in are different in
nature, but both require an effort of imagination on the part of both
writer and reader.
I've been interested in the paleolithic humans for a long time.
It's part of my science fiction project; if you try to imagine what
humanity could become, you have to think about what we are now, and
how we became what we are–and that gets you back to the
paleolithic, where we evolved to what we are.
So I'm interested in sociobiology as a kind of sf science,
speculative about our deep primate nature and its effects on us now.
The fact that these people had the same genome we do is so very
suggestive; it means culture is very important, and also that we
might choose deliberately to live in ways that give us the best of
the paleolithic experience.
I think the last line of Loon's wander is one of the great last
lines I have come up with, because we suddenly have to recalibrate
Loon's age, and it should be a big surprise. But they had to grow
up fast.
On the setting of Shaman:
This all takes place near what is now Vallons
Pont d'Arc in the Ardeche region of France, near the Chauvet cave
and the stone arch over the river nearby.
Then also my characters trek up to the caribou steppes of northern
France, and also eventually get to the dry land of the English
strait, and the ice cap of the Ice Age itself, sitting on southern
One way I think it's more like 300 miles, but that trip is
unusual. I do posit a traveling and nomadic culture, but their usual
annual trek is more like 200 miles round trip; then there is an
On research for Shaman:
I mostly read about these people but I
did try knapping stone and starting fires, and I spend a lot of time
backpacking where the activities are often similar. Snow camping is
also a technique. What I found interesting about the ice man was that
the design of his gear kit was so similar to mine in the mountains.
Different materials but same designs for same functions.
A lot of this story came to me as I wrote the book; more so than
usual with me. I knew the situation I wanted, and the relationships
at the beginning, the apprentice shaman and the old shaman and the
herb woman. I was thinking "first scientist" and "first artist"
and how culture was passed along so stably for thousands of years.
First is not the right word here, as by the time my people were
around the culture had been going for thousands of years. But you see
how I began. Then the story grew from there.
I wish the First Peoples in North America had a bigger presence in
the national consciousness. They have a particular wisdom to bring, a
long view, a relationship to the land, and to other people. I think
it's real, although when you're young it's hard to sort out
feelings of this sort. It's a bit overwhelming.
On Shaman and oral cultures:
When I fully grasped how huge a consciousness changer literacy is,
and how well their oral transmission had to be; and also what oral
transmission entails (which is not exactly word-by-word memorization,
but more patterns and stories and habits of mind, and proverbs) the
book completely changed, and the narrator, the third wind, began to
speak the book rather than write it. So I got a different narrator
with a different style, but also, the book had to be about that
Even after all the work and thinking, I still think it is deeply
mysterious how people managed to do it–to keep a culture going for
hundreds of generations. It's occurred to me that the lack of
literacy actually helped enable that, somehow. That writing would
have destabilized, as it still does. But it's still mysterious.
As to the terms for sexual parts and acts, I had to think about
that for a long time and finally give up on English, because all the
words were too weighted with baggage of one kind or another. They all
sounded wrong, modern. All the language of the book had to be
examined, but there the modern weights and prejudices were so extreme
that I reverted to Basque, proto-IndoEuropean, and metaphors from
I tried to use only the words they would have, but thinking also
they had full language, with abstracts, but all coming from their own
So I didn't use the word "fact" for instance, which I find
my narrators often used ("In fact,"….) Many like that. But
these people didn't have facts as we understand that term.
It was a big exercise in linguistics and word definitions, also
cultures and philosophies and what they knew in their lives back
Mama mia! I was so happy when a recent article stated that
historical linguists have determined that mama is one of the oldest
words in any language, a kind of sound happy babies make; and I/my
was really ancient too. I was just trying to suggest they would have
phrases from older languages around, other languages, and that it was
a Mother Earth religion where you would want an equivalent to OMG!!
but in the context of a Mother Earth religion. So it was a joke but I
meant it to work too. Actually it has thrown quite a few readers out
of the text, so maybe too much of a joke. But many of our old
commonplaces phrases are probably thousands of years old.
I think there may have been remnant
tales that lasted for thousand of years.
The swan wife story that Loon tells the shamans at the corroboree
is one of the oldest stories on Earth, found everywhere. I adapted
Loon's from a Tlingit version and Gary Snyder's version in his
Reed dissertation.
Also the story of the ten years without a summer that Thorn tells
early on, is my attempt to suggest that they were remembering the
disaster of 70,000 years ago, cause unknown, that reduced the human
population on Earth to perhaps 2,000 people, a thing we see by way of
the DNA bottleneck in the historical record of looking into our DNA
history! A new form of archeology, in effect.
And I was thinking, that Plato's story of Atlantis and its
destruction was the story of Santorini blowing up in 1643 BC, about a
thousand years before Plato wrote it down, and perhaps an oral tale
all the time.
So I think some of these old stories (like the minotaur which I
also postulate in the book as ancient) are really old.
On writing and his ow novelistic style:
I've thought for some time now that
we love novels for different reasons, and one is to learn about how
it felt to live in different times and places; what people's habits
were, what they did in daily life, and then what they thought and how
their feelings felt, but just in ordinary life.
Then we also want something more, which is when ordinary life
breaks down somehow and things go wrong or get strange or exciting;
and that's plot. And we all love plot, and the hunger to turn pages
to know what comes next.
So, I think both are important. And in a prehistoric novel, I
thought it was important that daily life be fully established,
because for one thing, they didn't have many of the plots we have
in modern life; the story was often the same, which was getting
enough food for winter, and doing all the basic paleolithc activities
of sustaining life and having families and so on. So, these are
events, but not plots. Then when plot comes, it could often be
catastrophic. Many plots are dealing with catastrophes to daily life
of one sort or another.
So, I have always done both, and have always disliked those novels
that are only plot. Thrillers, for instance; I don't think they're
that interesting.
So I am always testing the limits of readers' patience here, I
guess, and many readers these days have almost no patience for that
kind of thing I do, especially in my own genre, science fiction.
So it's a tension I deal with, and I can see that I have
especially fervent fans, and especially dismissive people who are not
I keep reminding myself that Proust's novel is one of the
greatest of all, to encourage myself. And keep on trying to keep a
On what's next:
My next novel is going to be about a multi-generational starship,
But I don't think they are going to work. I'm still working on
that idea.
It's part of the thinking going on in 2312 and Shaman, and so I
think the three books will make a kind of argument for what we are
and what we can or should try to become in the future.
This is something my editor, Tim Holman, has been pointing out to
me; that these three books will make a kind of extended argument or
He's a great editor, I am so lucky to have him!
And he got me to say something I hadn't realized, which is in
the little video clip of me on the internet, talking about Shaman;
that we now are living in a combination of the two books, that in a
sense we are already living 2312, whereas we are always living in
Shaman's world too; that's why now feels so weird and
disorienting. A nice thought!
Of course, reviews abound.
"Some" reviews below (beware of heavy spoilers in several!):
And of course the pages for Shaman with user reviews in GoodReads, LibraryThing, Amazon.


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I suppose I'd be somewhat remiss if I didn't address the story that came out in today's Boston Globe alleging that various Boston Red Sox pitchers were eating fried chicken, drinking beer, and playing video games in the clubhouse during games. The first question is how does this relate to the Orioles? As a follow-up, I wonder what kind of beer they were drinking; was it just straight Bud/Miller/Coors? Probably not, but for what it's worth Samuel Adams' amber Oktoberfest is my favorite! (Boston beer, right?!) Glad I got that out of my system! Having said that, in my opinion this shows a total lack of respect for one's teammates, the opponent(s), and most importantly the game and it's fans. Just because you're a pitcher and you unofficially have the game off doesn't mean that's how things ultimately pan out. Remember the O's/Yankee game that went to 15 innings and Jeremy Guthrie had to come in to finish the game? What would Josh Beckett do in that situation if someone came to get him to warm up and he had chicken grease all over his face and had downed four or five beers? Furthermore, the fact that those guys figured that they were so good that they could do that and still win games shows a blatant lack of respect for their opponents.
So again, what does this have to do with the Orioles? First off, things aren't always what they seem. For the past few years we've heard so much about how world-class the Red Sox organization is, and how the Orioles pale in comparison. You get where I'm going with this? The O's might have their issues in total, however I'm not sure anything like this has ever occured in the clubhouse. Furthermore, it more brightly magnifies what a crossroads in time that final game of the season might end up being. Removed from context, the O's won their final game and prevented a division foe from going to the playoffs. However as I said at the time, that game might end up being a juncture-point for both franchises. Terry Francona ended up mutually parting ways with the team, and as of today Theo Epstein has left the Sox for the Chicago Cubs. So 2012 will bring a whole new management team for the Red Sox, and as always that will potentially come with a few personnel changes on the field. (Translated: will a new manager want to inherit a group of players that think they can manage team management instead of the opposite?)
Obviously Andy MacPhail is no longer the GM of the Orioles, and regardless of who replaces him we'll see some major changes in 2012. However can we definitively say that those changes will be to the betterment of the team, and that the changes undergone by the Red Sox will make them take a step backwards? Of course not. The Red Sox will still be a formidable enemy, while the Orioles will still have their growing pains...in 2012. However as I said, that one game may well have been a critical juncture point in the future histories of these franchises and of the division. Remember in Back to the Future when the Doc kept saying how the lightning bolt hitting the clock tower was some sort of juncture point in the universe? That's kind of what I'm talking about.
One way or the other, odds are that the sense of entitlement shown by some of the players had a huge role in Francona's decision not to return to the team. Speaking for myself, I never liked Francona, however I do have a newfound respect for him if that is in fact the case. It takes a big man to walk away from such a lucrative position due in essence he doesn't have the respect of his players. It'll be interesting to see where both teams head in the offseason in their respective situations. However one thing is for sure; the Red Sox players have failed to understand that they owe a debt to the game of baseball. Not the other way around.


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Here is one example of the kind of hostility we encountered from some folks in Beijing. She was staring at us while we were buying something from a street vendor near our hotel. Her expression did not change at all while I took out my camera to capture the moment and take the shot.
A woman determined to communicate her disapproval. It is good to have a mission I guess.
This is my Photo Friday for the week of 9/29/06: "Anger"
I hate to say it, but you are a ghost! My wife tells me this daily, she sometimes only means Chinese when she uses the word people. I felt the same sort of thing in China, even thought once I was going to have to fight someone, it did not feel good.
@scarywebguy: LOL. Yeah I know all about the "ghost" thing.
What was so awful for me is that the comments and the stares were mostly directed at my daughter. They did not like the way she looks at all, for reasons I will not go into here. I hated seeing her treated so badly by some folks over there.
I started taking pictures. I am glad I did not have to fight. That must have been some experience.
Intensity to be sure, great capture
Dang, she looked right through the lens. I don't feel welcomed at all. Super shot.
@Wingdingo: Lol, thanks.
Yeah , if looks could kill....
Makes you wonder doesn't. China is becoming an economic super power and will be dominate in a decade or two. If that is the attitude now how will that translate later ...
Great photo by the way.
@TorontoStreet: Forget about 10 years from now, we were wondering while we were there how the International Community would fare there during the upcoming olympics in Beijing.
Stay tuned!
What is the "ghost" thing?
@lomion: My understanding of it is that "hungry ghosts" are those spirits that, according to the Buddhist and Taoist traditions, have large bellies, narrow throats and pinhole mouths. This makes it very difficult to eat and swallow. No matter how much they consume they are never satisfied. It is said to be the most painful path to reincarnation.
I find it very interesting what you do, musicmuse. Attentive I follow your photo stream. And your descriptions seem very well-founded. Thank you for sharing them with us.
@mynoa:Thanks so much. I am glad you are enjoying the commentary and the photos. It is nice to know someone is paying attention. :)
Oh, hungry ghosts, yes I know about them. I did not know about that connection though as you mentioned it.
She looks like she'd like to burn a hole right through you with that stare. Wow.
fantastic shot!!!what a look!!
Tahnks Riot and Fif&Co. Yeah, this look was postively radioactive.
that selective focus makes it really good; but I don't detect the hostility towards a white female shopping in Beijing. There's a frown, yes but she ain't throwing anything at ya for taking a pic of her w/o asking, is she?
You captured amazing intensity here!
Seen in your Beijing, China set. (?)
Yeah... she was already pissed off at us for whatever reason, so I went for it.
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Mahler was sentenced to one year above the maximum five year recommendation. The judge called him "completely unrepentant and totally unteachable."
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Sunny + Relaxing Private Guest RoomUnited States, California, San Francisco
About This Listing
Spacious, sunny private guest bedroom in a 2 bedroom apartment. WIFI, hardwood floors, eat-in kitchen, great views, prime walking location. Fresh Stylish and Clean =)
Space where guests can cook their own meals
Towels, bed sheets, soap, and toilet paper
Central heating or a heater in the listing
Space where guests can cook their own meals
Towels, bed sheets, soap, and toilet paper
Central heating or a heater in the listing
In the building, free or for a fee
In the building, free or for a fee
Continuous access in the listing
Breakfast is provided.
The listing can accommodate a gathering of 25 or more attendees
Easy access to the building and listing for guests in wheelchairs
Private or Shared
Free, in the building or nearby
Posted emergency information and resources
The Space
For all reservation requests, please message with desired time of day for both check in & out, I try to be as flexible as possible around my own work schedule.
The guest room is clean, spacious and comfortable. The window faces the street and has an awesome view. The room gets a lot of sunlight and you can hear the famous Cable Car bell when it passes by on the street below. This room is our guest room/home office, not a sublet of someone's personal room, so it is clear of most personal items and ready for you to feel at home in. In the room will be a bath towel, liens for your use.
The eat-in kitchen has all the goodies which guests are welcome to use. You can store whatever food you wish in the refrigerator and are always welcome to make a cup of tea for yourself with any tea you find in the cupboard.
The building is very small and is controlled access. Located on the 3rd floor walkup, no elevator. North Beach parking garage is one block away, open 24 hours however it is highly recommended to use public transit/cabs/walk/rideshare in this area. If you have a specific question about doing any of that please feel free to ask.
*****Please message with desired check in/out times along with any other questions you may have. I try to be as flexible as possible with my guests with arrival/departure times and am happy to provide any additional information about the place or San Francisco in general. Thanks!
Guest Access
Private Bedroom, Shared Kitchen, Shared Bathroom
Interaction with Guests
My boyfriend and I live in the apartment in our own private bedroom. I am available as a resource as needed although I tend to be a pretty private person. I handle most of the guest interactions however the boyfriend is happy to help too if needed or I am away.
The Neighborhood
Located in North Beach (not Chinatown, zipcode 94133) on a quiet block at the base of Russian Hill, close to many restaurants and shops. On the Powell/Mason cable car line, 3 blocks from a major muni bus stop. You can easily walk to the Financial district, Fisherman's Wharf, Telegraph Hill, Ghirardelli Square, Little Italy, Chinatown, Nob Hill, Union Square and the Ferry Building.
I have lived in North Beach for six years and love it! No place in SF like it :)
Getting Around
There is a lot of public transit near by also walking to places is easy to since the apartment is in the heart of the city. If you would like to find the best way to get to a certain location in the city, I can show you on a map upon your arrival.
-Do your own dishes
-No guests
-Hit the lights if you are leaving a room
-Keep noise to a minimum in common building hallway
-No smoking cigarettes inside apartment
-Be respectful to the neighbors
77 Reviews
The North Beach neighborhood is close enough to touristy things and to real living and this apartment struck the perfect balance. Jessica was super helpful and generous. The place is humble and utilitarian in the best possible way. Great list of suggested businesses given to you when you arrive. Highly recommended.
Room was very clean. The neighbourhood was great, close to Chinatown and the financial district but far enough away that the building itself was extremely quiet. Nice view of the water when you walk down the street behind the building. Thanks Jessica!
Jessica was very courteous and prompt in responding to all my inquiries and making sure that I didn't mind that she was not going to be at the apartment but someone else was going to be there with the keys and available to me during the trip. The room was as expected. It was quiet, very sunny and a perfect fit for my needs, especially because of its location. I would definitely stay there again.
Jessica took a last minute request and made herself available for check in to work with my schedule. She was pleasant and the location was excellent and had a cozy neighborhood feel.
Fantastic location; close but not so much as to leave you feeling crowded. The room was clean as pictured and the location matched the description exactly. No complaints and would stay again!
The host was gracious and helpful.
Jessica is a great host and she's quick to communicate and follow up. Very easy-going and friendly. The room was exactly as described and the location is unbeatable. Would definitely book again.
Jessica is very nice. The place is conveniently located. Recommended!
About the Host, Jessica
When playing host I am happy to help with anything you may need to make your stay more enjoyable. I am very familiar with the city (lived here for over 10 years) so if you need any suggestions or directions, I'm your gal! I am also game to have as little face time as possible for the do it yourself folks who are big on privacy. I host on airbnb roughly 50% of the year, when my schedule permits.
When playing guest I am polite and considerate. I always treat other's homes as my own and am happy to follow any house rules set. For the most part I tried to have my travel plans mostly squared away but I am always open to restaurant/coffee tips.
I am in my early 30's and work in the financial district in San Francisco. I enjoy going out to bars/movies/parks/wine tasting, hanging out with friends and all the normal junk. I have no pets so that means I have extra love for other people's pets. Mostly I keep to myself, do a typical work week and moderate weekend stuff. I am a sucker for good coffee and jazzy musicals.
Capos PizzaAuthentic Chicago Italian dishes and pizza. Also a great Whiskey bar!Vallejo St SF CA 94133
Molinari DelicatessenThe best place in North Beach to get a sandwich!! Old school Italian Deli, closes 6pm, closed Sundays. Grab food here and sit in the park and you are livin the North Beach life!Columbus Ave SF CA 94133
Apartment LocationRussian Hill / North Beach / ChinatownVallejo St SF CA 94133
Caffe TriesteAwesome espresso! Great people watching spot! Cool local crowd :)Vallejo St SF CA 94133
Pisto's TacosGreat tacos in north beach! I eat here a lot and have never once been close to let down.Grant Ave SF CA 94133
Chubby NoodleRestaurant in the bar called Amante great food and nice place for a drink. Great if you wanna people watch outside.Green St SF CA 94133
The SaloonThe oldest bar in SF, open since 1861. Live music almost every night.Grant Ave SF CA 94133
Waison Coin LaundromatCloset Laundromat with the least amount of hill :)Mason St SF CA 94133
TopeCheap happy hour! Nice folks!Grant Ave SF CA 94133
Mario's Bohemian Cigar Store CafeNo cigars, or smoke. A great place to eat alone, good for people watching.Columbus Ave SF CA 94133
Tommaso's Ristorante ItalianoThe ONLY real Italian food left from back in the day!Kearny St SF CA 94133
Don Pisto'sA more upscale version of Pistos tacos down the street. Great food but pretty loud and be prepared for a little of a wait.. Best time is to walk in right when they open or very late at night.Union St SF CA 94123
Cable Car MuseumFree and interesting.. perhaps the best part is you get to see the giant wheels underground which keep the cable cars going.Mason St SF CA 94108
Park Tavern$$$ nice restaurant if you want to spend a little. good idea to make reservations.Stockton St SF CA 94133
401 Bay StTrader Joes - Amazing fresh (not frozen) microwave ready food!Bay St SF CA 94109
SafewayNorth Point Shopping Centre - Safeway insideBay St SF CA 94109
Musée MécaniqueAn interactive museum consisting of 20th-century penny arcade games and artifacts. The best part of Pier 39!Pier SF CA 94133
Philz CoffeeThis coffee will ruin all other coffee for you. Coffee this good is a work of art.. If you truly love coffee (like me!!) then this is your spot :)Berry St SF CA 94107


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On Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009, the President of these United States spoke to school-aged children across the nation via a television address. I was confident my children, in attendance at a public elementary school in the Harrison County school district, would be viewing and listening to this address. It was directed, after all, to them.
Before we know it, 2009 will come to a close. We'll ring in a new year and say goodbye to what has been.
Some people may describe 2009 as momentous. For others it was just another 12 months. However you look upon the last four seasons, I hope you looked at some of it through a camera's lens.
Our new publication will come with the close of the year. It will be our first Yearbook, and quite honestly, if we don't get some photographs from our readers, it will likely be our last yearbook.
Everyone likes pictures. Not everyone likes to be photographed, but we all like to flip through photo albums and yearbooks.
To the editor:
Not being a parent, I wasn't aware that the students at Harrison County schools weren't able to listen to the President's address, though it doesn't surprise me.
In a country where five percent of the people have 95 percent of the money, this sort of situation confirms that split also applies to common sense and brains.
Nashville has come to Cynthiana! Well almost. Every Saturday night, The Classic Country Band is performing at Rohs Opera House, helping plant the seed for a downtown re-birth. The quality of music and songs performed by this group of seasoned musicians is equal to or above anything one can find in central Kentucky.
We can see that there have been some overall improvements in our city and we feel that we are headed in the right direction. However, Cynthiana is facing some serious problems and the solutions to some of these are difficult at best. This might be a good time to point out a few of our major hurdles and what the commission is doing to try to solve them.
Wow! Bruce Florence, director of MCTC-LVC has pulled off some more of her "magic" up on the hilltop this past weekend! I am referring to the writer's workshop.
There was a full house at The Prizing House on South Church Street Friday evening, where 15 noted authors set up for a "mini" book fair, wonderful buffet dinner, live folk band from Morehead and a keynote address by Kentucky's Poet Laureate Gurney Norman.
"Our district received an e-mail on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009 at 11:05 am from the Commissioner of Education, Dr. Terry Holliday, with the subject-heading, 'Information about President Obama's back to school message.' We met with our principals on Friday, Sept. 4 to discuss the President's speech.
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In addition to being President and CEO, Corey is also a member of the Rapid7 board of directors. He has more than 15 years of experience in leading companies to the next stage of growth and innovation. His previous positions include VP of Marketing at Parallels, Inc., a virtualization technology company, Group Project Manager of the Microsoft Server and Tools division, launching the worldwide availability of SQL Server 2005 and steering product planning for Microsoft's data platform, and a consultant at Deloitte Consulting. Corey received a B.E. in electrical engineering and computer science from Vanderbilt University and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
Steven brings more than 20 years of leadership experience and an accomplished track record of success in building organizations, driving change, and increasing stockholder value for technology companies. Prior to joining Rapid7, Steven was CFO at iPass, Inc., a cloud-based mobility management company. Prior to that, Steven held financial executive roles at United Online, Inc., Sterling Commerce, and VeriSign, Inc., and spent nearly a decade in investment banking with Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse First Boston and Bear Stearns. He is a CPA and received a B.S. in business administration and accounting from the University of Vermont and a MBA from Columbia University.
Lee brings a wealth of security and product leadership experience to Rapid7, where he is responsible for leading the direction and delivery of Rapid7's entire product portfolio. Before becoming SVP of Products & Engineering he was VP of Products at LogMeIn, Inc., a provider of cloud-based remote connectivity solutions. He has also held leadership roles at several software security firms, including Netegrity, Inc., IMlogic, Inc., and Symantec Corporation. Lee received a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts.
Tas leads the development and integration of Rapid7's award-winning solutions, driving the technical direction to enable customers through quality, simplicity, and innovation. Prior to founding Rapid7, Tas helped form Percussion Software, where he led the development of Percussion's first product. He has also developed software in the security and risk areas for CitiCorp.
Richard brings a strong background in global sales leadership and experience in high-growth environments to his current role at Rapid7. Previously, he worked at Quest Software, an enterprise application management solutions provider, as Vice President, Data Protection, for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific. He received a B.Sc. double degree in law and accounting from Oxford Brookes University in England.
Christina leads Rapid7's strategic people initiatives, focusing on the entire employee lifecycle. She has a leading approach to human resources and a strong commitment to recruiting stellar talent, corporate culture, and acquisition integration. Prior to joining Rapid7, Christina was the founder of People Innovations, a consulting firm focused on the creation of innovative people strategies. Her other previous positions include Chief People Officer at @stake (a professional services security firm she helped build that was eventually acquired by Symantec), and VP of People Strategy at Sapient Corporation. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from George Washington University and an M.S. in organizational administration from Boston University.
In his current role Mike helps companies understand security risk, build strong security programs, and successfully deploy Rapid7 solutions. He brings a broad business background to Rapid7, through his previous experience as Senior Vice President, CAD Operations & Strategy at PTC, Inc., and his roles at HighWired.com, Broadview Associates, Ltd., McKinsey & Company, and Goldman Sachs. Mike also played professional hockey for the Quebec Nordiques (now the Colorado Avalanche). Mike received a B.A. in economics and politics from Princeton University and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
Carol brings extensive marketing and sales expertise to her role at Rapid7, along with proven success driving technology companies to growth. Previously, she served as CMO at LogMeIn, Inc. and Unica Corporation (acquired by IBM), and VP of Sales for Shiva Corporation (acquired by Intel), and has held roles in sales, marketing and finance at Lotus (acquired by IBM) and GE. In addition to Carol's role as a marketing executive, she also serves on the advisory boards of DUO Security, SocialRep, and WordStream, and is on the board of directors for MineralTree.
HD is responsible for leading Rapid7 research into real-world threats and providing guidance on how to address them. In addition, he drives technical innovation across Rapid7's products and services, applying technology to the challenge of identifying and defending against current and emerging threats, as well as heading the development of experimental prototypes and free tools. He is the creator of Metasploit, the world's leading open source penetration testing framework, and remains deeply involved in Metasploit's evolution. With more than 15 years of professional security experience and a breadth of technical knowledge, he was named one of the 50 most powerful people in technology.
Rich leads global product development for Rapid7– encompassing Nexpose, Metasploit, AppSpider and UserInsight – and also oversees the introduction of new products into the marketplace. He has more than 20 years of experience in product development. He was previously at RSA, where he was responsible for leading the global engineering organization for its Authentication and Identity Protection and Verification products. Prior to joining RSA, Rich was CTO and co-founder of Salesnet, Inc.
Alan co-founded Rapid7 in 2000 and served as CEO from 2004 to 2009. Previously, Alan was a consultant to the investment banking group at Merrill Lynch. He has also developed mortgage-backed securities software at First Boston, coordinated and operated a computer graphics lab at HBO/Time Warner, and served as a programmer and designer for the VM operating system at IBM in the United Kingdom.
In addition to being President and CEO, Corey is also a member of the Rapid7 board of directors. He has more than 15 years of experience in leading companies to the next stage of growth and innovation. His previous positions include VP of Marketing at Parallels, Inc., a virtualization technology company, Group Project Manager of the Microsoft Server and Tools division, launching the worldwide availability of SQL Server 2005 and steering product planning for Microsoft's data platform, and a consultant at Deloitte Consulting. Corey received a B.E. in electrical engineering and computer science from Vanderbilt University and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
Mike has served on the board of directors since 2012. He is EVP and CFO of Informatica Corporation, a provider of data integration software, and has previously held financial leadership positions at IO Data Centers, SolarWinds, Inc., and i2 Technologies, Inc. Mike received a B.A. in finance from Augsburg College and a MBA in finance from the University of St. Thomas.
Ben has served as a member of the board of directors since 2008. Prior to joining Bain Capital, Ben held leadership positions with a wide range of technology companies. His previous roles include VP of Sales Operations at Iron Mountain Incorporated, venture investor with Fidelity Ventures, and consultant at McKinsey and Company. He received a B.S. in biomedical and electrical engineering from Duke University and a MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Tim has served as a member of the board of directors since 2011. He has spent more than 20 years in the venture capital industry and has extensive experience in technology investing. Before joining Technology Crossover Ventures he spent 10 years at Trinity Ventures. He received a B.A. in classics from Dartmouth College and a MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Ben has served as a member of the board of directors since 2008. He leads the technology and infrastructure investing efforts for Bain Capital Venture Partners, and is the CEO of VMTurbo. His previous positions include SVP at Veritas Software Corporation, COO and CFO of Precise Software Solutions, Ltd., and director of SolarWinds. He serves on the boards of directors of several private companies, including AppNeta, AppAssure and VMTurbo. Ben received a B.A. in government from Harvard College and a MBA from Harvard Business School.
Jack has been a member of the board of directors since 2010. In addition to serving as CEO of SevOne, Jack is an Operating Partner at Bain Capital Venture Partners, LLC. His previous roles include CEO at Axeda Corporation and CEO at Apparent Networks. He attended the Stanford University Executive Program and received a B.S. in management from Bridgewater State College.
Chris has served as a member of the board of directors since 2011. Chris joined Intel from Cisco Systems, Inc., where he was SVP of the Security and Government Group. Prior to that, he held executive roles at VMware, Inc., RSA, and America Online, Inc. Earlier in his career he founded Cyveillance, Inc., an internet monitoring and threat intelligence company, and also spent several years in various advisory positions with Mercer Management Consulting. He received a B.A. from Princeton University and a MBA from Harvard Business School.


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The Minnesota Vikings aren'Äôt wasting any time making 1st-round pick Harrison Smith a focal point of their defensive strategy. Said Leslie Frazier:¬Ý'ÄúWe'Äôre counting on him to be the starter. That'Äôs why we drafted him where we did.'Äù¬ÝSmith started at free safety on Friday and was impressive in his 28 snaps, recording two tackles and knocking down a pass.
It sounds as though the Vikings are relying on Smith more for his coverage skills than his ability to get into the backfield. According to Smith,¬Ý'ÄùThe coaches have kind of been saying, 'ÄòIf we call your number on a blitz and you don'Äôt make a play, we'Äôre probably not going to send you again.'Äô'Äù
That may be an oversimplification¬Ýby Smith, but it makes sense. The Vikings secondary has struggled immensly in recent years, and in the NFC North they can use all the help they can get. While it'Äôd be nice to get some pressure on Rodgers, Stafford and Cutler, Smith is probably most valuable dropping back in coverage in an effort to aid the Vikings somewhat suspect cornerbacks.
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1. On a clean work surface lay slices of prosciutto.
2. Center 1 sage leaf on each prosciutto slice.
3. Top sage leaf with cod portion, wrap prosciutto around cod and season with pepper.
4. Dust cod "packet" with pan-searing flour, patting off excess and set aside.
5. In a pan, heat olive oil on MEDIUM-HIGH, until oil faintly smokes.
6. Add cod packet, sage leaf-side down.
7. Turn over when cod changes color one-quarter of way up and seared side has turned paper bag-brown, about 5 min.
8. Reduce heat to MEDIUM and cook about 4 min, until internal temp reaches 120 degrees (check by inserting thermometer halfway into thickest part of cod).
9. Add basting oil and butter to pan and swirl.
10. Baste with spoon, 1-3 min, until internal temp of cod reaches 130 degrees.
11. Transfer to clean platter and let rest at least 2 min.
12. Serve with warmed sauce.


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Submitted by admin 3485 days 1 hour 32 min ago
Comments added to RSS feeds
Now the commented items are added to the RSS feeds so that it's possible to see what have been commented recently.
Submitted by marc.battyani 3425 days 5 hours 22 min ago
unicode possibilities
It would be nice if cl-user would display unicode input for CJK text. With PCL and On Lisp getting new printings in Japan, it might be beneficial to attract more brain-share from that side of the world. Would this be considered out of cl-user.net's scope?
Submitted by charliemac 2520 days 23 hours 6 min ago
Perhaps it would be interesting to open up a "universities" category (or subcategory of Organization) to list universities that teach lisp?
Submitted by informatimago 2513 days 14 hours 23 min ago
re: universities
This is a good idea. Done.
Submitted by marc.battyani 2510 days 18 hours 37 min ago
re: unicode possibilities
I have to think about it.
The use of English as the standard language is prefered so that the information is useable by most lispers.
I don't mind some other language content though.
Submitted by marc.battyani 2510 days 18 hours 9 min ago
Change descriptions may accept invalid characters
Attempting to view the "Last Modified Items" RSS feed in the Google Chrome browser gives the error: "error on line 10 at column 2048: PCDATA invalid Char value 12". Adding the feed in Mozilla Thunderbird: "<feed URL> is not a valid feed."
Submitted by WalterGR 1638 days 1 hour 8 min ago
Repository access
Many sites have a link to view the repository such as:
Source code repository http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?cvsroot=cl-semantic
however, I can't find any place that describes how to convert that link into something that can be used to actually check out the source code. I'm very suppressed this hasn't been an issue before.
Submitted by blake1024 1272 days 13 hours 49 min ago