Sean Williams

This is the cover of the French edition of Echoes of Earth, out now from Bragelonne. Beautiful, isn't it? The interior looks just as classy. Our translator, Mikael Cabon, fixed some errors in the Adjusted Planck Units appendix, for which I'll be forever grateful. (That table is one of my proudest achievements. Galling to think it's not been 100% correct until now!)

Meanwhile, work on the German Books of the Cataclysm continues apace at the Otherworld Verlag laboratories, ahead of a January 2009 launch. The Crooked Letter turned out to have no satisfying translation, so the first book has become Die Spiegelzwillinge) ("the mirror twins") and the series "Bücher Des Kataklysmus". Me, I think those titles are totally awesome. Things sound ten times more apocalyptic in German. (Thanks to Michael Krug for such attention to detail.)

Lastly, I reported a while back that my story "The Seventh Letter" will be translated for Czech magazine Pevnost as "The Fourth Letter" ("Čtvrté písmeno"). Here is the last sentence, as rendered by Pavel Bakič:

"A jeho sny, tak jako barevné sny slepců, byly plné prodejů, zasedání představenstva a lenochodů dštících durmanový dým ze dveří nadskakujících dostavníků."

Because it looks cool.

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Listening to: Hammock - City in the Dust on My Window

I'm coming to this late, but still...

Greg Bear's novel Eon blew my mind when it came out in 1985. Tapping into the same vein as Gateway, Orbitsville and Rendezvous with Rama,* it inspired me to write Echoes of Earth and Geodesica. I haven't read Eon for a while, but my appreciation of it is undimmed.

Now you can watch trailers of the non-existent movie based on the book, made as part of a CG competition with the author's blessing.

The thought of The Way making it off the page and onto a wall somewhere sends goosebumps down my arms--but not on the big screen, I pray. Give the book a miniseries, at least, with a big budget and a director who actually gives a toss about science. This masterpiece of SF deserves that much.

* And like all of these titles, imho, also the source of several inferior sequels.