A few days ago, I finished the first draft of my fifth book, The Ghost Map. In some ways, this book is a departure for me, but in other ways, it has a great deal of continuity with my earlier books, particularly Emergence. The most significant change is that this book has a single, sustained narrative…

So it’s an exciting time around here at SBJ headquarters. Last week I launched Ghost Map, and today I’m launching the first major web site I’ve helped produce since Plastic and FEED. It’s called outside.in, and I’ve been building it in stealth for the past five months, supported…

Jason linked to this op-ed on the “endangered joy of serendipity”:

Serendipity is defined as the ability to make fortunate discoveries accidentally. There’s so much of modern life that makes it preferable to the vaunted good old days — better…

Lovely review of The Ghost Map by David Quammen in the Times Book Review this morning. It’s interesting to see the many ways that reviewers have tried to connect the book to Everything Bad: some arguing for a connection between John Snow’s battle against the orthodoxy of the day to my…

Continuing my thread about the absurdly complex state of home theater technology… So I buy this fancy Marantz receiver that comes with its own universal remote that theoretically should allow us to consolidate the five remotes we currently have (for the LCD…

Publisher’s Weekly has generally given me nice reviews over the years, but the review they’ve just published for The Ghost Map is the best yet — one of those reviews that hits on all the themes that are important to you as an author. It’s also my first “starred” review in PW, so…