ISO Star Trek: The Good Parts Version
Which Star Trek episodes shouldn't be missed?
Archive for Speculative Fiction
Throwing in the hat
The discussion has taken its toll, and I've decided: I'm declaring myself to be a write-in candidate for the SFWA...
Sf items from all over
Some assorted tidbits pertaining to speculative fiction: Everyone but me appears to have known for days now that last week,...
Arguments about science fiction
Among my father's books, I just found a copy of a printed fanzine. It contains, among other things: A complaint...
Bay Area events
A few noteworthy upcoming and current things happening in Redwood City and San José: Tonight (Wednesday, March 14), 7:30 p.m.,...
Delany interviews Russ
At WisCon last year, Samuel R. Delany interviewed Joanna Russ by telephone; I was sad to miss the event, but...
Year’s Bests interim report
The majority of the Year's Best reprint volumes have posted tables of contents; I've been updating my Year's Best info...
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...
Slobodkin site
Carol Reid of Albany, New York writes to tell me about Io Sono, her new site honoring the life and...
Wikipedia and sf
Kathryn Cramer just posted a proposal that SF author bios should be posted to the ISFDB wiki instead of to...
Flammarion woodcut
A couple weeks ago, for reasons I can't remember offhand, I was trying to figure out the name of a...
Items: Writing advice
In the past few days, I keep coming across various items of advice and commentary about writing. (The focus here...