Just a head’s up about what’s going on at World Fantasy in a week. If you’re at the con, or just in the Columbus area, you might want to check these out: Friday, Oct 29, at 10pm – 1am, join me and authors Lucy A. Snyder, Gary A. Braunbeck, Linda Read more…
I have been mind-melded again over at SF Signal, and the theme this time is memorable anti-heroes in S/SF: Here are three of the most memorable anti-heroes in written SF/F, at least the three that come most readily to my mind when the question comes up. First is Slippery Jim Read more…
So I’ve been reading a lot of stories like this one that has me a little worried. We have 25% of the world’s population under an authoritarian regime that’s just on the edge of holding things together. When you’re spending just as much on internal security as you are on Read more…
In the annals of book promotion, this has got to be up there with the all time bad ideas. A paperback book was hurled towards President Obama seconds after he completed a Democratic rally in Philadelphia on Sunday, but aides say the incident in no way affected the event. […] Read more…
So Scalzi opines on Atlas Shrugged (which I’m currently reading for the first time, via a 64-hour long audiobook. If you’re curious, the book that filled the Atlas Shrugged slot in my teenage-reader political awakening was the Illuminatus! Trilogy. Yeah, I’m weird that way.) and while I don’t have a Read more…
A piece of writing advice I rarely hear, but one that seems appropriate to our digital age, is to never throw any of your work away. Everything you write, finished or unfinished, even the trunk novel that will never see the light of day, is potential material for a future Read more…
Make that a boot stomping on a human face — forever. I actually had someone try and pull that on me in a debate, more or less in the sense “BUSH HAZ WORST RECORD ON CIVIL LIBERTIEZ EVAR.” This was true, when he was in office. But Obama has doubled Read more…