SH Flashback: “The Welsh Squadron,” by Margaret Ronald
A new entry in my weekly Strange Horizons retrospective. The format of this entry is the same as before: I'll...
SH Flashback: “Valiant on the Wing,” by Chris Szego
As I noted last week, I've embarked on a weekly Strange Horizons retrospective. The format of this entry is the...
Baen and Stirling on women in combat
In 1988, S. M. Stirling sold a novel to Baen Books that was set in an alternate history in which...
General updates
Happy 2016, everyone! I have been woefully remiss in posting here of late. I've been posting much more often to...
Books sorted
Project completed! A few months ago, when I did a culling pass on my books, I sorted about a hundred...
SH Flashback: “In the Cold,” by Kelly Jennings
During my twelve years as a fiction editor at Strange Horizons, we published over 500 stories. Now that I've been...
My favorite movies watched in 2015
In 2015, I watched 63 movies, down from 100+ in 2014. I came very close to completing my rewatching-all-my-old-favorites project,...
Solstice
Winter solstice is impending in the northern hemisphere; it'll be about eight hours from now. I'm glad that the days...
On superheroes and community
One thing I'm liking about various recent superheroes is that they're surrounded by community. A couple of years ago, Captain...
New glasses, same as the old glasses
Over the past few years, the shape of glasses that I prefer has been getting harder to find. Last year,...
Mary Anne’s and my anniversary
Today is Mary Anne's and my 18th anniversary. Happy anniversary, Mary Anne! I'm not feeling creative enough to write anything...
Ordinary miracles: hymns for agnostics
The other day on Facebook, Kat said something about hymns for atheists, which reminded me of a playlist I put...