So next week I’ll be at Norwescon 33, which takes place in Sea-Tac. I’m embarrassed to tell you that I didn’t know Sea-Tac was its own town. I thought it was just the name of the airport. My apologies, Sea-Tackians. Sea-Tackites. Hyphenates. Whatever the people there call themselves, they live amazingly close to Seattle, one […]

Mail call! A CD arrived in the mail the other day — actually, a box containing four CDs. If you’re in the mood to be read to — say, you have a long commute, or you’re having eye surgery — here’s a nice solution: “We, Robots,” an audio anthology edited by Allan Kaster. 270 minutes […]

Look, I know I’m blowing your mind. Three blog updates in three days? What the hell is happening over there in Villa Del Daryl? Well, the mail is happening, that’s what. A couple things — physical things, that required physical humans to carry them to my physical home — arrived in the past week, each […]

I’m not sure how things got so out of hand, but yesterday I actually talked about a writer who wasn’t me. Well, that won’t happen again. Back to me, and my reviews. Black Gate Magazine has Mark Tiedemann’s review of The Devil’s Alphabet, called The ABCs of DNA and Other Thorny Themes. Full disclosure: Mark’s […]

So the other day my friend Jack Skillingstead got a fantastic review of his first novel, Harbinger, that appeared in the latest issue of The New York Review of Science Fiction. It’s one of those reviews that you want to put under glass and hang in front of your computer for those times when the […]

Forgot to mention a couple of interviews — because I must always be flogging the Daryl brand. Recently I went on Tim O’Shea’s blog, Talking with Tim, and well, talked with Tim.  I love his blog. Tim talks to everybody — artists, singers, comic book people. He’s wide spectrum, baby. For my interview, we covered, […]

It’s good to be home. After 10 days away, I realized that even when I’m enjoying myself — for example, living the high life in New York City, sipping sidecars at the Algonquin, drinking Belgian beers, going to a Broadway show, hanging out with my editor, lunching and brunching with various literary types — there’s […]