The Internet is taking a significant step forward inside MIT’s Media Lab. Soon, you’ll be interacting with a physical manifestation of the web that is both portable and personable. Check out the $350 prototype below:

The “Back from the Dead” edition of Coach’s Midnight Diner is now available from Amazon.  Alongside fiction from Kim Paffenroth and Bob Freeman, you’ll find my future take on the 9th Ward of New Orleans.

The story, written weeks after Hurricane Katrina nearly destroyed the city, follows a young man struggling to survive a supernatural collision of past and present in a rebuilt neighborhood very different from the one he knew as a child.

Huge congratulations to Gary, Fran, Nick, and Joel.  I’ll keep my fingers and toes crossed for you in June! 

What’s a Stoker you ask?  And who are these people?  The Bram Stoker Award is presented by the HWA in reconition of superior achievement in the writing of horror.  If you’re looking for a stellar summer read, you won’t do better than this lot:

Coffin County by Gary Braunbeck
Frozen Blood by Joel Sutherland
Mama’s Boy by Fran Friel
The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft by Nick Mamatas and Tim Pratt