Sarah Connor returns
Season 2 of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles started tonight. I'll be waiting to watch the new episode with Kam,...
Archive for Speculative Fiction
Kiosk
Been reading Strahan's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Two. I've only read about half the stories...
Fictional female scientists
Helen Merrick has started a list of female scientist characters in fiction, especially in science fiction. It's part of a...
Infinite Matrix special issue
In honor of Cory Doctorow's birthday, Eileen Gunn has put together a special one-shot issue of The Infinite Matrix, featuring...
R.I.P., Thomas M. Disch
I imagine most of you who would want to know already know by now that Thomas M. Disch committed suicide...
Nancy Pearl interviews William Gibson tomorrow night in Seattle
As a benefit for Clarion West's 25th anniversary, Nancy Pearl ("Seattle's own rock star librarian" and the only librarian with...
Jumper and Jumper
As I mentioned the other day, I saw the movie Jumper back in March. Back when we saw it, all...
Stuff I like in fiction
Lengthy notes on stuff I like in fiction.
Previously, on Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica returns to TV tonight for the start of its final season. (Or at least the start of the...
Futurismic fiction returns!
I continue to be out of touch; it's been a month now since Chris East announced that the fiction department...
Sarah Connor ARG
Been meaning to post more about the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which I've been quite enjoying. (I've...
On Spinrad
In discussions of early sf criticism--of writers who write serious and thoughtful critiques of speculative fiction as literature--I hear certain...