Five-minute summaries
Peter W. pointed to the Five-Minute "Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries" comic. Sort of in the style of the old Fotonovels,...
Archive for Speculative Fiction
R.I.P., Stanislaw Lem
According to the SFWA obituary: Polish science fiction author Stanislaw Lem died in his home city of Krakow on Monday,...
Another Year’s Best update
Assorted Year's Best TOCs and news and such: Kathryn Cramer has posted the table of contents for Year's Best SF...
More about Beagle, The Last Unicorn, and Lord of the Rings, plus Star Trek
I wrote about this a while back, but I've learned more about the situation since then, so I wanted to...
Two Hearts
I haven't finished reading all the non-SH stories from 2005 that I plan to read before making my Hugo nominations,...
Rich Horton to do Year’s Bests
As many of y'all know, Rich Horton reads possibly a higher percentage of the short science fiction and fantasy published...
R.I.P., Octavia Butler
For those who haven't heard: sf writer Octavia E. Butler died on Saturday, age 58. Here are some relevant links...
Assorted sf notes
Some deadlines, to-do items, and con-related notes, and more good news for SH.
R.I.P., Andreas “G’Kar” Katsulas
Andreas Katsulas, who played G'Kar on Babylon 5, has died of lung cancer at age 59. I knew nothing about...
Genre levels
Some thoughts on plausibility and genre conventions.
R.I.P., Cynthia McQuillin
Just discovered that filksinger-songwriter Cynthia McQuillin died two weeks ago, on January 14, of renal and respiratory failure, at age...
Africa, the Other, and sf
Some items that may or may not add up to more than the sum of their parts: Okay, so there's...