Book View Cafe Releases Polar City Blues

After way too long out of print, through the miracle of e-publishing, you can read Katherine Kerr's Polar City Blues, brought to you by Book View Café.

An alien spy turns up dead in Hagar, capital city of The Republic, a pitiful handful of worlds stuck between the powerful Interstellar Confederation and the huge Coreward Alliance. Police Chief Al Bates needs to solve the murder fast before the political ramifications destabilize the precarious balance between the three. Unfortunately for him, the one person who can help him plays by her own rules: Bobbie Lacey, one of the infamous information brokers who exist on the margins of his authority.

Katharine Kerr spent her childhood in a Great Lakes industrial city and her adolescence in Southern California, whence she fled to the San Francisco Bay Area just in time to join a number of the Revolutions then in progress. After fleeing those in turn, she became a professional story-teller and an amateur skeptic, who regards all True Believers with a jaundiced eye, even those who true-believe in Science.

Polar City Blues (Science Fiction)
Katharine Kerr
June 14, 2011 $4.99 ISBN: 978 1 61138 063 7

It's a Week for Posts from Me

As luck would have it, today is my day for posting over on the Book View Café blog--a much less serious topic than yesterday's, about growing up in a barn. With bats. I even put in pictures!

RedRoom

(Why did I keep hearing "redrum redrum" as I set up my page there?)

I now have a RedRoom page: http://www.redroom.com/member/madeleinerobins. I'm told this is a good thing. I suspect writing would be a good thing too. Maybe I'll just go do some right now.

One for the Good Guys

The court has denied the Prop. 8 supporters' motion to vacate Judge Walker's overturning of the Proposition. Per the Honorable James Ware, Chief Judge of the US District Court for the Northern District of California:

In a case that could affect the general public based on the circumstances or characteristics of various members of that public, the fact that a federal judge happens to share the same circumstances or characteristic and will only be affected in a similar manner because the judge is a member of the public, is not a basis for disqualifying the judge.