Frequent auditors of this blog will recall that Liaden Universe® Ambassador Plenipotentiary Ur Sid had recently accepted a new role as guardian of the Sharon Lee and Steve Miller Collection at the Cushing Memorial Library & Archives at Texas A&M University. Since the Bumpy Passage fell out of use many years ago, I created a […]
Liaden Universe® InfoDump Number 136
IN THIS ISSUE: 1 Ur Sid to join Lee and Miller Archive at Texas A&M 2 Plan B anniversary edition 3 Last Train Outta Kepler-283c 4 Sea Wrack and Changewinds 5 Ribbon Dance Audiobook 6 Diviner’s Bow 7 The Small Print: Sites of Interest, Blogs & Other Webly Things of Note, Facebook Connections, Xitter, Bluesky […]
Sharon Lee Announces: Ur Sid Appointed Liaden Universe® Ambassador to Texas
First, a history lesson. In 1999, Meisha Merlin published Plan B, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, effectively bringing the authors and their Liaden Universe® back from the dead. This is not a thing that happens often, and Steve immediately recognized it as an opportunity Not To Be Wasted. We had already been keeping in […]
Sharon Lee’s Albacon 2024 Schedule
Albacon 2024 is being held at the Marriott Courtyard, Clifton Park, NY, September 13, 14, 15. GOHs are Elizabeth Bear, Scott Lynch, Geri Sullivan, Cory Doctorow. NOTE: Sharon will be attending remotely. She will NOT be physically at the con. Sharon Lee Reading Readings (room 101) Sat 4:00 PM Duration: 00:45 Description Sharon Lee Reading […]
BSFS Renames Poetry Contest for Steve Miller
Before Steve was a globally acclaimed science fiction writer, he traveled in poetry, which was a thing you could actually do, back in the last century. To the best of my knowledge, he never stopped writing poetry, though he did stop trying to publish, and many people just don’t know about this side of him. […]
Last Train Outta Kepler-283c coming soon!
So, I just finished reviewing the page proofs for “The Last Train to Clarkesville,” a Liaden Universe® Western that will be appearing in this anthology of all-new stories, edited by David Boop, coming from Baen on November 5. Man we did a good job on that story! Here’s a teaser: He was big, and strong, […]
Diviner’s Bow Cover Reveal
Diviner’s Bow, the 27th novel set in the Liaden Universe® created and maintained by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, will be published on April 1 2025. David Mattingly created the cover, featuring Counsel to Chaos Blays essWorthi and Majel ziaGorn, the Deaf Councilor.
Ribbon Dance a bestseller!
Bookscan SF Bestsellers, New Books released June 2-8, 2024 #1 Apostles of Mercy, Lindsey Ellis #2 Mirrored Heavens, Rebecca Roanhorse #3 The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu #4 Ribbon Dance, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller #5 501st Star Wars Legend (Imperial Commando), Karen Traviss Thanks to everyone who made this possible — give yourselves a hand!
PSA for those who downloaded Ribbon Dance from BN
There was a formatting error in the file, while resulted in forced tiny font that could not be changed by the reader*. THIS ERROR HAS BEEN FIXED, and should be available by Monday, if not sooner, so you may redownload your book and read it in the font size of your desiring. Though it was […]
Are you prepared for Ribbon Dance?
Tomorrow, June 4, Ribbon Dance, the 26th novel set in the Liaden Universe® created by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, officially drops in hardcover and in ebook*. For your optimum reading experience, you’ll want to lay in plenty of cake, not to mention pretty little cookies with pastel icing, tea, wine, nuts, and maybe a […]