So. It seemed to YHB that Counting Heads was a sort of how-to course in exposition. Perhaps you already know this, Bob, but David Marusek seems to have used every trick in the book to create situations where Bob needs…
I think I’ve mentioned, here in this Tohu Bohu, that I’m not a Zionist. I think Zionism was a mistake before the Holocaust, and I think it was a mistake as a response to the Holocaust. It was an understandable…
Your Humble Blogger has only heard three really plausible reasons for going into acting. Laurence Olivier said that he was only ever aware of wanting to show off. Ian McKellen said that he had heard there were a lot of…
There’s an odd thing about scale. In one sense, it’s terribly easy to adjust to, and difficult to remember that the adjustment has been made. On the other hand, sometimes those adjustments lead to moments of completely warped perspective, when…
Since Your Humble Blogger got provoked by Benjamin Rosenbaum into writing acres of drivel (unlike the usual acres of drivel off my own bat), there has been a good deal of fascinating discussion in various corners about what I perhaps…
It turns out, and this is a surprise to Your Humble Blogger, that at least a dozen novels have been Reported in this Tohu Bohu that, if YHB understands the rules correctly, were eligible for the Hugo. One of them…
Your Humble Blogger was surprised to discover that The Wrong Box, by Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne, is out of print. It’s a lovely little farce, and well worth reading, if you get your hands on a copy. The…
One of the things about the umpty-’leventh time through Isaac Asimov’s Foundation was noticing the short story-ness of the short stories. You know what I mean? When I started the series, reading it in a hardback omnibus of the three…
This is, of course, a Very Bad Idea, but I can’t help thinking, when my Perfect Non-Reader insists on putting the left shoe on the right foot, that with all the flashing lights and spinning wheels on shoes these days,…
So, for you, Gentle Reader, to grasp the point Your Humble Blogger would like to make, you’ll need a trifle of background about How the Rehearsal Process Works. Those Gentle Readers who are familiar with this sort of thing, and…