Dalekriders of Pern and other Daleks
I think it was during the Hugo nomination period that I came across some links to the art of Kathleen... (More...)
I think it was during the Hugo nomination period that I came across some links to the art of Kathleen... (More...)
I'm delighted to see that all four Echo's Children albums are now available on Bandcamp, which means that you can... (More...)
I was driving back from Uvas Canyon County Park this evening and found myself behind an SUV that had a... (More...)
Went yesterday to see the Stanford Savoyards' ST:TNG-themed production of H.M.S. Pinafore. They wore Star Trek costumes, and mapped the... (More...)
The first seven broadcast episodes of ST:TOS included one episode with a shapeshifter, two with faux Kirks, one in which... (More...)
Say you're a reasonably genre-savvy fictional character, and you're carrying an object—the Mysterious MacGuffin Of Mystery—that's important to your quest,... (More...)
I've seen a fair number of sf stories (submitted to SH over the years) set in a future USA in... (More...)
Ursula Vernon, author of the newly Hugo-award-winning graphic novel Digger, has written a sad and powerful short story about The... (More...)
Yesterday, my Facebook stream conveniently grouped together posts about four different Kickstarter projects. (What's the collective noun for Kickstarters?) I... (More...)
Fantasy has many subgenres. For example, there's High Fantasy, full of epic quests and forsooths and the Fae. There's Urban... (More...)
A couple years ago, I created a site that was meant to be a clearinghouse for information about the annual... (More...)
There's a nifty HTML5 Showcase site that shows some cool demos of what's possible with HTML5. Unfortunately, at the moment... (More...)
Acclaimed science fiction and horror writer Ed Bryant has been having some medical and financial issues lately. So some friends... (More...)
The funding period for Mary Anne's Kickstarter project, Demimonde, ends 19 hours from now. If you'd like to see her... (More...)
Last year, Kam and I watched Caprica up through episode 13, when it stopped being broadcast on Syfy. We always... (More...)
Naomi just showed me a rather entertaining It Gets Better video featuring Severus Snape. Warning: Contains enormous spoilers for at... (More...)
There've been a couple of times in the past few months when I've wanted to research various things about the... (More...)
I recently went looking for guidelines for Brutarian, and I found that they don't seem to have any kind of... (More...)
Today, instead of doing anything on my to-do list, I spent about five hours drafting an article covering the whole... (More...)
Yet another author just sent us an annoyed note about how awful we are for not taking simultaneous submissions. In... (More...)
It occurred to me a while back that a lot of classic science fiction could be described this way: A... (More...)
As a gift for Ursula K. Le Guin's 80th birthday last year, Karen Joy Fowler and Debbie Notkin put together a... (More...)
Two events starting in an hour and a half that I meant to post details about days ago: In Portland,... (More...)
A few years back, I linked to a bunch of Star Trek fan films and series. Just now happened across... (More...)
Kam and I finally watched the two-part finale of this latest Dr. Who season, “The Pandorica Opens” and “The Big... (More...)
Been meaning to link to this for ages: Anil Menon and Vandana Singh are putting together a Speculative Ramayana anthology.... (More...)
At WisCon last weekend, they announced that the guests of honor for next year will be Nisi Shawl and Elizabeth... (More...)
After over a year of struggling with cancer, Jeanne Robinson has died. I didn't know her, but I liked Stardance,... (More...)
Dear Lazyweb, For the past few years, I've been thinking that it would be cool to have an online database... (More...)
The latest video making the rounds: "The Fastest and Funniest LEGO Star Wars story ever told," covering the entire original... (More...)
A couple of times in recent months, I've seen sf writers say that they don't submit to Asimov's. If you're... (More...)
Kam and I have been watching and enjoying Caprica. We watched the pilot months ago, back when it came out... (More...)
As many of y'all may recall, a year ago I committed the sacrilege of disliking Inkheart (the book). One of... (More...)
Ellen Oh, a Korean-American writer, is one of many people who've blogged about the shameful whitewashing of the cast of... (More...)
I've been reading William Tenn's stories since I was a kid; his stories were scattered through a bunch of the... (More...)
T.A. Pratt's Marla Mason series of urban fantasy novels was cancelled last year after four books. Not long ago, the... (More...)
Green Man Review reports that Kage Baker died this morning, of cancer. (More...)
A couple of weeks ago, author Kage Baker's sister Kathleen Bartholomew sent out a public note revealing that Baker had metastatic cancer. Unfortunately, things have gotten even worse. (More...)
Ari at Reading in Color blogs about the latest YA fantasy novel with a whitewashed cover. Yep, it's yet another... (More...)
Thoughtful and interesting post from N. K. Jemisin on why RaceFail was good for science fiction/fantasy. Excerpt: The angry questions that... (More...)
I came across the following description of a PDA in a book a while back; I sent it out in... (More...)
SarahP asked if there's a way to hear how the songs in Lord of the Rings are meant to be... (More...)
Started reading Pamela Dean's The Secret Country last night on the way to sleep. My comment so far: Having five... (More...)
The opportunity of a Western is that it takes issues of our culture—conflict, racial conflict, economic injustice, what is... (More...)
I'm reading William Tenn's 1958 story "Eastward Ho!" (as reprinted in the 60th-anniversary volume The Very Best of Fantasy &... (More...)
David Hartwell points out that it's easy for Year's Best editors to miss new stories (non-reprints) that appear in single-author... (More...)
I've now seen three episodes of FlashForward. So far, I'd say it's an interesting show; not brilliant, but intriguing. (I... (More...)
Nalo is going to be speaking at Swarthmore College this coming Tuesday evening (the 27th) at 7:30 p.m. She's a... (More...)
One of the things that I like about Leverage is that the hacker, Hardison, is a geek. This is particularly... (More...)
I just happened across an article from mid-2008 that says that Freema Agyeman and Jamie Bamber are starring in the... (More...)
Happened across a passing reference this morning to Sendak having come out last year (at age 80); looked it up... (More...)
Over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories a few years back, they provided schemata for how to make a Cylon jack-o'-lantern.... (More...)
Smart and interesting discussion in the latest issue of Transformative Works and Cultures: "Pattern recognition: A dialogue on racism in... (More...)
Really must clear out some browser windows. Squirrels: Y'all know about Crasher Squirrel? This couple was on vacation in Banff,... (More...)
I recently speculated that people generally don't seem to have a lot to say in online discussions about individual short... (More...)
In recent years, there's been a great deal of discussion (and angst) about the graying of science fiction and the... (More...)
Justine Larbalestier recently posted two excellent blog entries on topics related to protagonists of color: First: "Why My Protags Aren't... (More...)
One of the things you personally can do to help work against racism in the speculative fiction world is to... (More...)
(This is another one of those entries that will probably make no sense to people not involved in the speculative-fiction... (More...)
The search engine man was not meant to know: Cthuugle. And for more Internet Cthulhu goodness: LOLTHULHU. Some of my... (More...)
Interesting pair of articles: "Space: Is the final frontier all it used to be?", by Ted Anthony, for AP, discusses... (More...)
I'm sorry to hear that Charles N. Brown, publisher of Locus for the past forty years, has died. For some... (More...)
It's been a couple of weeks since my last life-update post. I don't feel like much has been going on,... (More...)
I've been meaning for weeks now to link to Thoughtcrime Experiments. It's a science fiction anthology, edited by Sumana Harihareswara... (More...)
I wasn't going to post any more tonight, but this is way too good not to share: The idea of... (More...)
I've been aware for a while now of the penchant that many white writers have for using food metaphors to... (More...)
My backup system makes my computer unusably slow if I have too many Safari windows open that contain videos, even... (More...)
Ever since Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles started airing, I've been meaning to write in some detail about all the... (More...)
On the evening of Saturday the 18th (tonight--about 17 hours from now), Beagle and Lupoff are reading in San Francisco.... (More...)
The Times Online last week had a fun interview with David Tennant and Russell T. Davies about leaving Dr. Who.... (More...)
Sumana mentioned Thoughtcrime Experiments in a comment this evening. I hadn't previously heard of it--I'm a little out of touch--but... (More...)
Back in 2006, a guy named Shamus Young posted a couple of strips of a photonovel-style webcomic with the following... (More...)
I've been reading (well, mostly skimming) the stories in The Best of Lester del Rey, and just found this line: "War... (More...)
In science fiction stories, there are certain ideas and tropes that writers who aren't well-read in the history of the... (More...)
The Guardian provides info on relatively unknown actor Matt Smith being chosen to play the eleventh Doctor on Dr. Who.... (More...)
I'm sorry to see that Majel Barrett Roddenberry died of leukemia this morning, age 76. Memory Alpha's entry says that... (More...)
I've seen a bunch of stories in the last couple of weeks that boil down to this quasi-plot: Someone encounters... (More...)
Season 2 of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles started tonight. I'll be waiting to watch the new episode with Kam,... (More...)
Been reading Strahan's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Two. I've only read about half the stories... (More...)
Helen Merrick has started a list of female scientist characters in fiction, especially in science fiction. It's part of a... (More...)
In honor of Cory Doctorow's birthday, Eileen Gunn has put together a special one-shot issue of The Infinite Matrix, featuring... (More...)
I imagine most of you who would want to know already know by now that Thomas M. Disch committed suicide... (More...)
As a benefit for Clarion West's 25th anniversary, Nancy Pearl ("Seattle's own rock star librarian" and the only librarian with... (More...)
As I mentioned the other day, I saw the movie Jumper back in March. Back when we saw it, all... (More...)
Lengthy notes on stuff I like in fiction. (More...)
Battlestar Galactica returns to TV tonight for the start of its final season. (Or at least the start of the... (More...)
I continue to be out of touch; it's been a month now since Chris East announced that the fiction department... (More...)
Been meaning to post more about the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which I've been quite enjoying. (I've... (More...)
In discussions of early sf criticism--of writers who write serious and thoughtful critiques of speculative fiction as literature--I hear certain... (More...)
It continues to frustrate me that I don't have time to read everything I want to read. Here are a... (More...)
Annalee Newitz, Charlie Anders, and a cast of several have been running a blog called io9 for the past few... (More...)
I'm still reading the Tiptree bio. Getting close to the end; I'm becoming more and more aware of what I... (More...)
I'm sometimes surprised by how often sf stories are all about the evils of technology, and how much better unmodified... (More...)
For the past couple months, Tia Nevitt has been blogging about debut fantasy novels, including reviews of some of the... (More...)
"[St Paul's Church in Grangetown, Cardiff] is to host a Doctor Who-themed communion service aimed at young people. [The church]... (More...)
As most of you know by now, Madeleine L'Engle has died at age 88. I liked the original Wrinkle in... (More...)
For decades now, sf writers have been writing stories that go like this: Pick some big change (to a person... (More...)
I realized recently that I had never finished reading last year's Year's Best science fiction and fantasy anthologies, and that... (More...)
This happened all the time in sf stories in the 1940s: the protagonist would see something strange happen, and his... (More...)
I've just updated the Year's Best SF Info page to link to the newly posted table of contents for Best... (More...)
Which Star Trek episodes shouldn't be missed? (More...)
The discussion has taken its toll, and I've decided: I'm declaring myself to be a write-in candidate for the SFWA... (More...)
Some assorted tidbits pertaining to speculative fiction: Everyone but me appears to have known for days now that last week,... (More...)
Among my father's books, I just found a copy of a printed fanzine. It contains, among other things: A complaint... (More...)
A few noteworthy upcoming and current things happening in Redwood City and San José: Tonight (Wednesday, March 14), 7:30 p.m.,... (More...)
At WisCon last year, Samuel R. Delany interviewed Joanna Russ by telephone; I was sad to miss the event, but... (More...)
The majority of the Year's Best reprint volumes have posted tables of contents; I've been updating my Year's Best info... (More...)
In honor of Nick M's birthday (happy birthday, Nick!), I'm finally getting around to mentioning that Nick has provided his... (More...)
Carol Reid of Albany, New York writes to tell me about Io Sono, her new site honoring the life and... (More...)
A couple weeks ago, for reasons I can't remember offhand, I was trying to figure out the name of a... (More...)
In the past few days, I keep coming across various items of advice and commentary about writing. (The focus here... (More...)
It seems like every year we SH editors frantically scurry around to all sorts of websites and journals and things,... (More...)
Sometimes people complain that the word polyamory is a mix of Latin and Greek roots. I've been known to make... (More...)
To quote Locus Online: "SF Grand Master Jack Williamson, born 1908, died this afternoon at his home in Portales, New... (More...)
So with the aid of the new devil device, Kam and I watched the two-hour season opener of Battlestar Galactica.... (More...)
Borderlands Books, in San Francisco, has a bunch of readings and other events coming soon. For example: Date and time... (More...)
I've been meaning for quite some time to link to Eleanor Arnason's blog, but I don't think I ever got... (More...)
My journal will be one of the featured blogs on the featured blogs page on the Asimov's site and the... (More...)
A bunch of links to various kinds of Star Trek fan films, plus info on Phase II. (More...)
I liked it quite a bit. (More...)
One of the high points of WorldCon for me was getting to chat more than I usually do with Sheila... (More...)