Move Under Ground for free!
In honor of Nick M's birthday (happy birthday, Nick!), I'm finally getting around to mentioning that Nick has provided his...
Archive for Books
Save Pandemonium!
I'm way late on this, but I just heard that Pandemonium Books & Games, a science fiction/fantasy books-and-gaming store in...
Slobodkin site
Carol Reid of Albany, New York writes to tell me about Io Sono, her new site honoring the life and...
Genre conventions
I read some romance recently--a Crusie novel (reissue) I hadn't previously encountered, and then a set of three novellas by...
General notes, plus more Crusie
Sometimes I am a little grumpy and a little glum, due mostly to having been sick on and off for...
Howl’s Moving Castle inventiveness
One quick note about the commentary on Howl's Moving Castle: A bunch of people in the supplemental materials on the...
Unusual points of view
Some notes on point-of-view handling in works by three authors: One idiosyncrasy of H. Beam Piper's writing, at least in the...
Greek suffix meets Lingua Terra
Sometimes people complain that the word polyamory is a mix of Latin and Greek roots. I've been known to make...
Book-shifting day, plus the Chicago Seven trial
This morning, I went over to Pam & Arthur's to help them move furniture and books; they're rearranging a bunch...
Borderlands this weekend
Reminder about two events this weekend at Borderlands Books in San Francisco: Saturday, November 11, 3:00 p.m.: Ellen Klages, reading...
More charming books by favorite authors
On the way out the door this morning, I picked up Peter S. Beagle's 1999 novel Tamsin, which has been...
Twenty Epics
Do you like epic fiction, but don't have time to read the latest ten-thousand-page epic series? Fear not! Twenty Epics,...