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In 1988, S. M. Stirling sold a novel to Baen Books that was set in an alternate history in which... (More...)
9 January 2016, 11:16 AM | Comments (0)
Project completed! A few months ago, when I did a culling pass on my books, I sorted about a hundred... (More...)
9 January 2016, 10:17 AM | Comments (0)
And yet again, two weeks have gone by without a post from me here. What've I been up to? Day... (More...)
25 July 2015, 3:35 PM | Comments (0)
My first encounter with Ursula K. Le Guin's short YA novel Very Far Away from Anywhere Else was in college. My... (More...)
1 July 2015, 11:18 AM | Comments (0)
For a long time, we've been reading stories and books about how things mediated through technology are bad and being... (More...)
15 May 2015, 10:10 AM | Comments (0)
Jim Hines posted yesterday about the Best Editor categories of the Hugo ballot. A friend asked who might've been on... (More...)
7 May 2015, 10:00 AM | Comments (0)
The problem with doing one little minor computer task late at night (like, say, "sync my new books to my... (More...)
7 May 2015, 9:13 AM | Comments (4)
I just picked up the printed book of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, and so far it's regularly... (More...)
2 May 2015, 9:02 PM | Comments (0)
I've now encountered this interesting and unusual PoV in multiple works of fiction: The narration is in first-person plural. It... (More...)
23 November 2014, 10:55 AM | Comments (0)
Among my favorite books as a kid were a few by Zilpha Keatley Snyder: Black and Blue Magic; The Egypt... (More...)
12 November 2014, 9:59 AM | Comments (0)
I posted here a whole bunch toward the beginning of WorldCon, mostly about the Hugos, and then switched to Facebook... (More...)
2 September 2014, 7:40 AM | Comments (1)
As I've noted before, I rarely read novels in time to nominate them for the Hugo or Nebula awards. But... (More...)
30 July 2014, 12:09 PM | Comments (0)
The Wheel of Time, as most of y'all probably know, has been nominated for a Hugo award, in the Best... (More...)
29 June 2014, 4:00 PM | Comments (0)
I just read a lovely, excellent piece by Molly McArdle on the joys, and failures, of Narnia. “I write as... (More...)
30 May 2014, 11:46 AM | Comments (0)
I've been meaning for months to blog about specific works and people I'm going to nominate for the Hugos, and... (More...)
25 March 2014, 1:04 PM | Comments (1)
I recently read Karen Healey's 2013 YA SF novel When We Wake (which is out in paperback today!), and I... (More...)
18 March 2014, 11:21 AM | Comments (0)
Pat (Spencer Tracy) and Jamie (Katharine Hepburn) are on a sleeper train, and the following dialogue ensues: Jamie: Would you... (More...)
14 March 2014, 10:32 AM | Comments (0)
In my Complete Sturgeon reading, I just read his 1954 story “Granny Won't Knit.” Spoilers and an entertaining anecdote follow.... (More...)
2 March 2014, 11:20 AM | Comments (1)
SFWA has announced this year's Nebula nominees, and I'm very pleased with them. Congratulations to all the nominees! (And double... (More...)
25 February 2014, 12:45 PM | Comments (0)
I feel like I haven't posted a general life update here in ages. Partly that's because I have half a... (More...)
13 February 2014, 9:10 PM | Comments (2)
In 2001, I bought and read and enjoyed the first five volumes in North Atlantic Books's Complete Stories of Theodore... (More...)
1 February 2014, 12:34 PM | Comments (0)
Still enjoying Laurie Colwin's 1978 novel Happy All the Time. Here are a couple more bits worth snipping for my... (More...)
20 January 2014, 10:53 AM | Comments (0)
I've been doing some sorting and organizing and winnowing of books lately, and came across a book that I think... (More...)
19 January 2014, 9:16 AM | Comments (0)
In 2003, on the evening when Hugo votes were due, I bought a copy-protected PDF ebook of Coraline from the... (More...)
25 November 2013, 11:39 AM | Comments (0)
A few assorted life updates: Day job I've been at my current day job for nine years as of today.... (More...)
18 October 2013, 10:57 AM | Comments (0)
I was in Borderlands Books yesterday, and I saw a book on the shelf called Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie,... (More...)
13 October 2013, 3:52 PM | Comments (1)
As noted in my previous entry, I was cutting the Moomin books some slack on the gender-roles front because they... (More...)
26 August 2013, 10:49 AM | Comments (0)
Several of my friends grew up reading the Moomintroll books, so I've been hearing the books recommended for a long... (More...)
26 August 2013, 10:05 AM | Comments (2)
I've seen a couple of Kickstarter/Indiegogo listings for crowdfunded sf anthology projects that don't mention some important-to-me issues. Some crowdfunded-anthology... (More...)
9 August 2013, 8:12 AM | Comments (0)
Some notes toward the blog entry that I'm probably not going to manage to write about Orson Scott Card and... (More...)
16 July 2013, 12:51 PM | Comments (3)
I'm finally reading Comet in Moominland. (I never read the Moomin books as a kid, but friends have been recommending... (More...)
3 June 2013, 7:45 AM | Comments (0)
This week has been kinda stressful. I'm extremely conflict-averse, and in a normal week I might have minor conflicts with... (More...)
27 April 2013, 1:07 PM | Comments (7)
It occurred to me recently that I almost never read long-form nonfiction. I read online nonfiction all the time—blogs, news,... (More...)
4 March 2013, 11:32 AM | Comments (1)
Yesterday, I read Jen Larsen's newly released memoir Stranger Here: How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My... (More...)
20 February 2013, 12:28 PM | Comments (0)
Yesterday, my Facebook stream conveniently grouped together posts about four different Kickstarter projects. (What's the collective noun for Kickstarters?) I... (More...)
28 August 2012, 8:39 AM | Comments (0)
After a short weekend sojourn to LA, I got on the plane to go home. Arrived at Mary Anne's place... (More...)
24 June 2012, 3:24 PM | Comments (0)
Wow, it’s apparently been two weeks since I posted here. FOGcon was good. It was great to get some time... (More...)
14 April 2012, 12:35 AM | Comments (3)
The latest generation of the Kindle—not the Kindle Fire, not the Kindle Touch, just the plain old Kindle—finally has the... (More...)
30 November 2011, 9:39 AM | Comments (4)
Acclaimed science fiction and horror writer Ed Bryant has been having some medical and financial issues lately. So some friends... (More...)
18 October 2011, 10:49 AM | Comments (0)
The funding period for Mary Anne's Kickstarter project, Demimonde, ends 19 hours from now. If you'd like to see her... (More...)
11 October 2011, 10:46 AM | Comments (0)
My Uncle Paul's novel The Kairos is now available from Amazon! (More...)
11 October 2011, 9:39 AM | Comments (2)
Mary Anne has launched a Kickstarter project for a new book she's writing. It's called Demimonde. It's going to be... (More...)
20 September 2011, 2:33 AM | Comments (0)
Been over a week since I posted anything here, and quite a while before that since I posted a life... (More...)
15 September 2011, 1:22 AM | Comments (1)
I'm reading A Song for Arbonne, and though I'm liking it (more and more as it goes on), there's one... (More...)
27 August 2011, 12:18 AM | Comments (0)
I have been meaning for years to link to TV Tropes, a wiki that provides a vast and entertaining and... (More...)
12 June 2011, 11:27 AM | Comments (2)