Over in this thread on rasfw, Jim Butcher, renowned for being unwilling to spend two or three minutes on google to render Chicago accurately in his novels, gets cranky after someone comments on an upsurge of religious content in the Dresden novels.
It’s understandable. After all, it’s so difficult to find out any […]
In desperate Galactica withdrawal? Seen at Galactica SitRep: a short animated parody that’s funny, cute, and short enough to still be endearing. See We Were Centurions.
Science Fiction Awards Watch has jumped into the blogosphere in a big way, coming just before this year’s Hugo announcements. Aside from my own hand-wringing about His Majesty’s Dragon and an impressive list of awards and award-resources, they’ve also just posted a link to author Jay Lake’s defense of the existence of these awards. […]
The Execution Channel by Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod’s new novel takes us from a shocking explosion in a near-future Scotland, to the world of ultra-sophisticated conspiracy bloggers and the shady government operatives who play and spin them. The Travis family lead their own lives, but each of thejm is in some way complicated by the […]
The story (see also the Torque Control take) of Titan’s Campbell Award win has made a little more headway. David Truesdale has a column for F&SF that includes the remarks of Elizabeth Hull announcing Bova’s victory. Until now we have had no insight into the reasoning of the Campbell jury in selecting Titan, […]
The Lost Fleet: Fearless by John G. Hemry writing as Jack Campbell
When I reviewed the preceding volume in this series Dauntless I may not have fully expressed how much that book exceeded my expectations. I truly enjoy military science fiction, but I also tend to suffer for my dalliances with it. Dauntless didn’t […]
