Archive for Books
The problem with doing one little minor computer task late at night (like, say, "sync my new books to my...
I just picked up the printed book of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, and so far it's regularly...
I've now encountered this interesting and unusual PoV in multiple works of fiction: The narration is in first-person plural. It...
Among my favorite books as a kid were a few by Zilpha Keatley Snyder: Black and Blue Magic; The Egypt...
I posted here a whole bunch toward the beginning of WorldCon, mostly about the Hugos, and then switched to Facebook...
As I've noted before, I rarely read novels in time to nominate them for the Hugo or Nebula awards. But...
The Wheel of Time, as most of y'all probably know, has been nominated for a Hugo award, in the Best...
I just read a lovely, excellent piece by Molly McArdle on the joys, and failures, of Narnia. “I write as...
I've been meaning for months to blog about specific works and people I'm going to nominate for the Hugos, and...
I recently read Karen Healey's 2013 YA SF novel When We Wake (which is out in paperback today!), and I...
Pat (Spencer Tracy) and Jamie (Katharine Hepburn) are on a sleeper train, and the following dialogue ensues: Jamie: Would you...
In my Complete Sturgeon reading, I just read his 1954 story “Granny Won't Knit.” Spoilers and an entertaining anecdote follow....