Blood Oath by Christopher Farnsworth My rating: 4 of 5 stars Blood Oath is an interesting and fairly refreshing variation on the vampire riff. Most of the current tales give us a suave, sexy predator who mesmerizes his or her…
Reviews: Various Short Stories
I just finished reading a bunch of different short stories that have been lurking in various programs on my iTouch. While they are reviewed in separate entries on GoodReads, I’m going to try to put the reviews in one blog…
Random Linkage
In lieu of a real post, which would require actual thought… New Elizabeth Bear short story: The Girl Who Sang Rose Madder Ruminations on science fiction, fantasy, etc.: Asking the Wrong Questions Dr. Horrible recast with My Little Ponies
Review: The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross My review rating: 5 of 5 starsI don’t give many 5-star ratings, but The Atrocity Archives deserves one. You may need to read it with a web browser open to look up references using…
R.I.P. Arthur C. Clarke
We lost another great writer and thinker today. CNN seems to be updating their story on his death by the minute. There’s no controversy, but from the first version or two, you’d think the only thing the man had ever…
Never, Never on a Sunday
Nope, not Sunday. Mostly. Well, maybe sometimes. Damned earworm! I was trying to be Very, Very Good today as I wrapped up my assignments for the semester. Unfortunately, I got completely distracted by the fact that I hadn’t done a…
MomoCon?
Is anybody going to MomoCon here in Atlanta? I’d never heard of it before today. It’s free and may be in its second year (I’m not sure). It seems quite small, which could be nice. It’s local, which is a…
Movie Overdose
We’ve watched so many movies in the last few weeks that they’re all running together. We just finished The Transformers. Yesterday was Babylon 5: A Call to Arms (we’d seen that before, of course) and Catch Me If You Can.…
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Disparate thoughts from a very low energy day. In fact, it was so low-energy that I thought I posted this entry last night, and never did. I has a fever. Do Not Want. Blah. Can’t brain. Short attention span means…
R.I.P. Madeleine L’Engle
I started this post on September 7, the day after the grand lady moved on to find out what’s next. I find myself certain that she wasn’t afraid, that she looked forward to a reunion with her husband Hugh and…