Kargadan

Forum member aimee sends along this shot of her cat, Yewbert, who has apparently been told you can pass through the looking glass…

It is a rare event, but I have won a drawing of chance. Specifically I’m a winner in the Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist Brasyl giveaway. Excellent. And it means a review will be forthcoming for Brasyl.

I was wandering through my local, and apparently soon-to-close Borders the other day, and I saw a bunch of recently published items of interest. Let’s take a look.
First up: Scalzi’s The Last Colony has hit local shelves. While none of the recent covers for the OMW-universe books have distinguished themselves as much as […]

This week our feline victim is my very own Kosh. A furry monster of a male cat, Kosh has only one hip due to a youthful fracture of the femoral neck of uncertain cause. He’s about eleven now, and still very active. He is, of course, named after the Vorlon ambassador.

John Scalzi reveals that he deliberately avoided disambiguating the gender of a character in The Android’s Dream for the entire length of the novel. The selection of comments which I read skewed towards perceiving the character of ‘Sam’ as male, and that matches how I read it. Two primary grounds come to mind. […]

A Confederation of Valor by Tanya Huff
an omnibus comprising:
Valor’s Choice
The Better Part of Valor
Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr is going to steal your heart, but before she does it, she has to be right. And then afterwards, she’ll be right then too. During, as well. In fact, Sergeant Kerr will be right all […]

Forum user vencap brings us Dylan. Do you suppose he looks more like Isildur or Anárion?

Or maybe he is an enemy of Gondor?

April 6, 2007 is the datestamp on this Advocate article that speculates about the sexuality of Battlestar Galactica’s Lieutenant Felix Gaeta. I’ve encountered some skepticism myself, in promoting my own claims of Baltar-Gaeta tensions, so I have to point this out.
There is something curiously amiss in the Advocate article, and that is a spoiler, […]

Last night three members of chicago-sf.org were fortunate enough to attend the Kim Harrison author event at Borders in Oak Brook. Nimowy, spot and I got to listen to Ms. Harrison read a few pages from her new book, _For a Few Demons More_, then take questions for about an hour, after which she signed […]

The Prince of Nothing
R. Scott Bakker
consisting of:
The Darkness That Comes Before, The Warrior-Prophet, The Thousandfold Thought
Historically, my defection from being the sort of person who gets involved in obnoxious flamewars while declaring the utter and complete superiority of science fiction over fantasy is relatively recent. It started with China Miéville, continued through George R. […]