Old Analog issues, free to a good home
I'm giving away about 170 back issues of Analog. Let me know if you're interested. Details follow. My father had...
Archive for Speculative Fiction
How to enjoy Terminator Genisys
I saw Terminator Genisys last night. Fortunately, Karen prepped me for it ahead of time, so I thought I'd pass...
Somebody Will, again
I'm having one of those everything-is-deeply-intertwingled moments. On the way home, Ada Palmer's haunting and lovely and sad-yet-hopeful song “Somebody...
Tomorrowland
I just watched the movie Tomorrowland, and I'm surprised I haven't seen more people posting about it. It's the story...
House rules for playing Slash
At WisCon 2014, Vylar Kaftan introduced a bunch of us to a very entertaining fast-paced casual game called Slash: it's...
Tech is bad, nature is good
For a long time, we've been reading stories and books about how things mediated through technology are bad and being...
Good weekend
This weekend went surprisingly well in various ways: I completed something like a dozen to-do items that I had been...
Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
I just picked up the printed book of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, and so far it's regularly...
Radio/audio drama at half price!
Short version: All CDs of ZBS audio productions are now available at half price! If you like Welcome to Night...
Queer sf revisited
It's been almost exactly twelve years since I posted a blog entry titled “Queer sf,” in which I noted that,...
The Changeling
Among my favorite books as a kid were a few by Zilpha Keatley Snyder: Black and Blue Magic; The Egypt...
Susanfic
I hadn't realized there's a whole genre of Susan Pevensie fanfic. Here's one I just came across: “Between,” by genarti,...