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The previous owner of my house is still on the Smithsonian catalog mailing list. As those of you who've been...

There's a door at work with a label next to it that reads, in half-inch-high capital letters: "DON'T PULL THE...

Various editors of the various Year's Best science fiction and fantasy volumes have started posting their tables of contents. And...

I've been seeing this a fair bit lately: cover letters in which authors explain that they haven't been published, but...

Rather to my surprise, only three people have used the experimental RTF submission system in the week since I mentioned...

Some thoughts on plausibility and genre conventions.

Last week at work, I sat down and wrote a quick little Perl utility. I tried to run the script,...

The insomnia thing is back. This past year, it's been a big relief that, for the most part, despite all...

I've been falling down in my self-appointed task of calling attention to people's birthdays. And I don't have time now...

Something Vardibidian said about this whole cartoon-inspired violence mess reminded me of something--although the below is at best a side...

At the Evanses' Christmas dinner in 2004, I saw my old friend Lola for the first time in years.

There continues to be tremendous confusion among some SH submitters over the distinction between curved (or slanted) quotation marks and...