Hiding an item from the ruler
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,...
Archive for Speculative Fiction
A future anti-religious US?
I've seen a fair number of sf stories (submitted to SH over the years) set in a future USA in...
Another take on The Problem of Susan
Ursula Vernon, author of the newly Hugo-award-winning graphic novel Digger, has written a sad and powerful short story about The...
A few Kickstarters of possible interest
Yesterday, my Facebook stream conveniently grouped together posts about four different Kickstarter projects. (What's the collective noun for Kickstarters?) I...
New (name for a) fantasy subgenre
Fantasy has many subgenres. For example, there's High Fantasy, full of epic quests and forsooths and the Fae. There's Urban...
Farewell to my Year’s Bests site
A couple years ago, I created a site that was meant to be a clearinghouse for information about the annual...
Awesome HTML5 HAL 9000 pastiche
There's a nifty HTML5 Showcase site that shows some cool demos of what's possible with HTML5. Unfortunately, at the moment...
Help out Edward Bryant by bidding on cool stuff!
Acclaimed science fiction and horror writer Ed Bryant has been having some medical and financial issues lately. So some friends...
Last day to help fund Mary Anne’s sf erotica novel!
The funding period for Mary Anne's Kickstarter project, Demimonde, ends 19 hours from now. If you'd like to see her...
Finished watching Caprica
Last year, Kam and I watched Caprica up through episode 13, when it stopped being broadcast on Syfy. We always...
A message from Severus Snape (+bonus trailer)
Naomi just showed me a rather entertaining It Gets Better video featuring Severus Snape. Warning: Contains enormous spoilers for at...
SFWA qualifying markets list: now with links to guidelines
There've been a couple of times in the past few months when I've wanted to research various things about the...