Beagle tonight in SF
Peter S. Beagle will be reading tonight in San Francisco, at the Make-Out Room, as part of Charlie Anders's "Writers...
Archive for Speculative Fiction
Dark side of the Plot
About halfway through reading the Slate article "Star Wars: Episodes I-VI: The greatest postmodern art film ever," by Aidan Wasley,...
RYT Hospital
It's been argued that the Hugo Award for Best Website, if it's to become a regular Hugo category, should go...
Busy
And another weekend flies by, just like that. I have lots of things to post, but keep not having time...
R.I.P., Andre Norton
Science fiction writer Andre Norton died this morning. I've been meaning to post for the past couple weeks mentioning that...
Homosexuality, sf, and the unheimlich
I really ought to be either editing or reading subs, but I'm gonna take a little time to point to...
Items: Shifting paradigms
Feeling a little better than yesterday, but still not up to going to work. Yesterday I didn't do nearly enough...
Nonpolitical (personal, minor) good news
Some things that've made me happy lately: At World Fantasy Con this past weekend, half a dozen people I didn't...
The case of the inverted plot
Recently finished reading Tales from Earthsea. Sometimes Le Guin stories are so rich I can't read many of them at once;...
Fantasy dictionary and style guide
I've come to the conclusion that what the field needs is a dictionary, or at least a spelling guide, for...
Grammarian
I got a few birthday presents and some nice phone calls and emails and journal comments; thank you all! I...
Three Laws rephrased
The fake robot-ad trailer for the upcoming I, Robot movie came out a few months ago, but now there's a...