American Gods
A while back, HarperCollins set up Browse Inside access to American Gods: you can read the first hundred-plus pages for...
Freedom of religion and same-sex marriage
In recent discussion of same-sex marriage, I've been pleased to see a particular term rising to new prominence: "civil marriage."...
Pandemic, the game
I've now played the cooperative boardgame Pandemic five times (all at the beginner level) and won twice. When I first...
Dollhouse (spoilers for episodes 1 and 2)
Back in February, Kam and I watched the first two episodes of Dollhouse. I wrote up my thoughts about them,...
Study shows people have good gaydar
Scientific American has an article about a study that shows that people can (with better-than-chance accuracy) identify which men are...
What you can do to help New Hampshire
NH state Rep. Jim Splaine, who's been working hard to make same-sex marriage legal in NH, was kind enough to...
FIVE STATES!
A couple hours ago, the Maine legislature passed their same-sex marriage bill along to Gov. Baldacci. And he immediately signed...
This week in same-sex marriage
I keep neglecting to link to tacithydra's excellent and thorough set of same-sex marriage entries. A bunch of info I'm...
Waking up is hard to do
Haven't had much sleep lately—usually about five hours a night, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less. Last night,...
Emotional consequences in fiction
Something I see fairly often in stories: Some huge life-changing event has happened—whether to the protagonist, to someone close to...
How I met Kam
As I've noted before, the 1st of May is not exactly Kam's and my anniversary, but it's the anniversary of...
April submissions
How'd it get to be May already? In April, the Strange Horizons fiction department received 439 valid submissions. On the...