Authors on the Web
Gamasutra, November 2, 2009
...[In a rare interview, Valve writing lynchpins Marc Laidlaw and Eric Wolpaw talk in-depth on the narrative structure and pithy quips behind critically feted games like Half-Life 2, Portal, and Left 4 Dead 2.] Valve has developed...
Addict3d.org, October 10, 2009
...a bit alike.' EP219: Sleepy Joe Direct MP3 link Sleepy Joe text on Infinite Matrix Previously:Boing Boing: Marc Laidlaw's lucky lightning photo Welcome to our new guestblogger, Marc Laidlaw! - Boing Boing Boing Boing: Rudy Rucker's science fiction...
GameSpot UK, September 19, 2009
...of challenges, they also were excited about the ways they were dealing with those obstacles. GDC Austin 2009: Marc Laidlaw and Erik Wolpaw go over developer's approach to storytelling and how they don't always know what they're doing. Full Story...
Kombo.com, September 17, 2009
...Writers Marc Laidlaw and Eric Wolpaw, two of the creative minds behind Portal, Left 4 Dead, and the Half-Life series took the time to talk about their experiences working at Valve, why...
SF Signal, October 14, 2009
...s Lament " (Apex, October 2009) Paul Jessup: " Ghost Technology From the Sun " (Apex, October 2009) Marc Laidlaw: " Sleepy Joe " (Infinite Matrix, July 2002) Jay Lake: " Chain of Stars " (Subterranean Online, Fall 2009) Tanith Lee: " Clockatrice "...
Boing Boing, October 10, 2009
...This week's story on the Escape Pod sf podcast is Marc Laidlaw's "Sleepy Joe," a grimly comic, apocalyptic story about paralegals with a secret cable-access show who find themselves caring for (and kidnapping) a brainwashed war-veteran who's been...
Click World News, October 10, 2009
...This week's story on the Escape Pod sf podcast is Marc Laidlaw's "Sleepy Joe," a grimly comic, apocalyptic story about paralegals with a secret cable-access show who find themselves caring for (and kidnapping) a brainwashed war-veteran who's been...
Click World News, October 10, 2009
...bit alike." EP219: Sleepy Joe Direct MP3 link Sleepy Joe text on Infinite Matrix Previously: Boing Boing: Marc Laidlaw's lucky lightning photo Welcome to our new guestblogger, Marc Laidlaw! - Boing Boing Boing Boing: Rudy Rucker's science...
Boing Boing, October 10, 2009
...bit alike." EP219: Sleepy Joe Direct MP3 link Sleepy Joe text on Infinite Matrix Previously: Boing Boing: Marc Laidlaw's lucky lightning photo Welcome to our new guestblogger, Marc Laidlaw! - Boing Boing Boing Boing: Rudy Rucker's science...
GameSetWatch, September 17, 2009
...the highlights from Day 2: Game Writers Summit GDC Austin: Half-Life, Portal Scribes Talk Writing Process "Valve writers Marc Laidlaw and Erik Wolpaw delivered a talk at GDC Austin about the processes and principles of video game writing, drawing from...
io9, September 10, 2009
...Murder in Bistrita" - Debra Doyle & James Macdonald "The Film-makers of Mars" - Geoff Ryman "Childrun" - Marc Laidlaw "Queen of the Sunlit Shore" - Liz Williams "Lady Witherspoon's Solution" - James Morrow "Dearest Cecily" - Kristine Dikeman "Ringing the...
SF Signal, August 27, 2009
...is "periphery," for some reason. SoY: What's the best thing you've read this year? TK: Marc Laidlaw had a story called "Flight Risk" that was podcast on Tony C. Smith's Starship Sofa that completely blew me away. I also really liked Camille Alexa's...
Space Ramblings, June 4, 2009
...to offer. I was wrong. There was still John Kessel coming up. Then there are the trunk stories. Marc Laidlaw’s An Evening of Honest Peril, a trunk story from six years back that features a “realistic” retelling of a World of Warcraft type MMORPG...
Puss Reboots: A Book Review a Day, May 1, 2009
...Swept by James Protzman (April 21) Overexposed: The Price of Fame by Eliot Tiegel (April 23) Quickstone by Marc Laidlaw (April 25) Rich Brother, Rich Sister by Robert and Emi Kiyosaki (April 6) The Secrets of a Fire King by Kim Edwards (April 19) ...
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...Alan Moore It cost too much, staying human. - Bruce Sterling God to Earth: “Cry more, noobs!” - Marc Laidlaw The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly. - Orson Scott Card Click here for the rest. Now who says they don’t have time to write a novel? If...




















