Game On! Art Opening, Barrie November 25, 2008

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The MacLaren Art Centre are showing My Trip to Liberty City as a part of a show called Game On! that starts Thursday, December 4, 7pm. I’ll be dropping by the reception for an hour or so, but I’ll have to leave early.

 

Expozine, Montreal

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Going to Montreal to table at the fun-times zine fair Expozine & staying with my old pal, the excellent cartoonist Joe Ollmann.

Saturday, November 29 and Sunday, November 30, 2008, from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 5035 St-Dominique (Église Saint-Enfant Jésus, between St-Joseph and Laurier, near Laurier Métro). Free admission.

 

The New Post-Rapture Graphic Novel

I’m 2/3rds (AKA 66.6%) of the way through writing the graphic novel follow-up to Therefore Repent!, so I thought I’d post some of the amazing sample pages by the new artist, Shannon Gerard.

I don’t want to give away too many details, but it’s set in Detroit, involves one of the Four Horsemen, and the first 22 pages should be debuting at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival in May 2009.
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Everybody Dies Takes Bronze at IFComp November 16, 2008

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My new text adventure videogame, Everybody Dies, was just voted third out of 35 entries at the annual Interactive Fiction Competition!

It starts with a metalhead, Graham, realizing that throwing that shopping cart over the bridge was not the great idea he thought it was. Even if it did get him out of washroom duty at Cost Cutters.

Play it online or read on for the wicked cover art, my thank-you speech, and more download options.

UPDATE: Invisiclue Style Hints provided below, Windows exe customized.

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Why I Can’t Wait Until 2020 November 11, 2008

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Photo: :) AliIf you knew I was a science fiction writer, you might assume it’s because I’m eagerly awaiting floating cities or nanotech implants. But actually, it’s the year I figure that all the World War II veterans will be dead.

On November 11th, 2020, we’ll be able to have a discussion that seems ungrateful or spiteful now: were the veterans of World War II heroes, or survivors? Is Remembrance Day actually about thinking about the specific soldiers who died, or about keeping the idea of soldiering alive?
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