SH Flashback: “Let Us Now Praise Awesome Dinosaurs,” by Leonard Richardson
A new entry in my weekly Strange Horizons retrospective. This week's Strange Horizons Flashback story: “Let Us Now Praise Awesome...
Author Archive
See you in S C U B A
Last March, I went Snuba diving and ended up loving it. (Snuba is sort of like scuba with training wheels;...
SH Flashback: “The Welsh Squadron,” by Margaret Ronald
A new entry in my weekly Strange Horizons retrospective. The format of this entry is the same as before: I'll...
SH Flashback: “Valiant on the Wing,” by Chris Szego
As I noted last week, I've embarked on a weekly Strange Horizons retrospective. The format of this entry is the...
Baen and Stirling on women in combat
In 1988, S. M. Stirling sold a novel to Baen Books that was set in an alternate history in which...
General updates
Happy 2016, everyone! I have been woefully remiss in posting here of late. I've been posting much more often to...
Books sorted
Project completed! A few months ago, when I did a culling pass on my books, I sorted about a hundred...
SH Flashback: “In the Cold,” by Kelly Jennings
During my twelve years as a fiction editor at Strange Horizons, we published over 500 stories. Now that I've been...
My favorite movies watched in 2015
In 2015, I watched 63 movies, down from 100+ in 2014. I came very close to completing my rewatching-all-my-old-favorites project,...
Solstice
Winter solstice is impending in the northern hemisphere; it'll be about eight hours from now. I'm glad that the days...
On superheroes and community
One thing I'm liking about various recent superheroes is that they're surrounded by community. A couple of years ago, Captain...
New glasses, same as the old glasses
Over the past few years, the shape of glasses that I prefer has been getting harder to find. Last year,...