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,...
Archive for Speculative Fiction
R.I.P., Jim Baen
I knew Jim Baen had had a stroke a couple of weeks ago, but I hadn't known until just now...
Ones and zeroes and copies
It's fairly common in science fiction these days to see sentient beings in electronic form--whether artificial intelligences or uploaded human...
Nalo, Beagle, et alia reading in San Francisco on Tuesday
This coming Tuesday, June 13, there are two events in San Francisco, at the same time and in different places,...
Reviewed without venom
For over three months now, I've been meaning to post a note about Liz Henry's excellent SH review of Touched...
Sultan’s Elephant and Tyger
I keep seeing links to photos of "The Sultan's Elephant," but not to information about it. In case anyone else...
BSG, “previously,” and the iTunes Music Store
A couple of quick thoughts about BSG that don't involve spoilers (mostly discussion of the iTunes Music Store approach to...
BSG: Wow
Very big spoilers here for the last three episodes of season 2 of Battlestar Galactica. Non-spoiler summary: I loved them,...
Becoming what they oppose
There's a trope I like a lot in fiction when it's done well: characters who are so ardent in their...
SH/SLF rapid-fire reading fundraiser, Wednesday in SF
Tomorrow night (which is to say Wednesday, 10 May), there'll be a rapid-fire reading in San Francisco to benefit Strange...
BSG: I spoke too soon
Some reasonably big and fairly specific spoilers here for the second half of season 2 of Battlestar Galactica. Kam and...
Redshirts and spear-carriers are people too
This entry contains a couple of generalized and thematic quasi-spoilers for Battlestar Galactica, especially for the first half of season...