Monthly Archives: April 2009

Everyone knows by know who won the Nebulas so it would be otiose to post a link here. I was disappointed that McDonald’s wonderful Brasyl didn’t win in the novel category, but Le Guin’s Powers is a superb book, doubtless … Continue reading →

HarperStudio is publishing a collection of hitherto uncollected (mostly, I understand, unpublished) works by Twain and, to celebrate, they and the New Yorker‘s BookBench are giving away a free audiobook version read by John Lithgow, at least for a week … Continue reading →

1. My Blog Gate post of the week is up, this one a penitential review of two volumes from the NESFA’s Choice series. 2. I’m late for something else. 3. The second item could be appended to almost any communication … Continue reading →

This: Pat (of Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist) is running a poll to see what he should read next… and at least one title will be pretty Bloody familiar to readers of this journal. That: Morlock audible at last! The Other: Geniuses … Continue reading →

Heliotrope‘s long-awaited Moorcock issue is live. You can read it online or download a PDF free. Looks like fun!

Fred Pohl, at The Way the Future Blogs, has a nice reminiscence of Cyril Kornbluth. Kornbluth has become unfashionable, maybe permanently so, even among the few who still remember his work, but I’ve always liked his stuff. For instance, I … Continue reading →

My Blog Gate post for the week is belatedly up: this one recounts an epic struggle I fought with the Easter Bunny and my own porous memory, and naturally involves Spider-Man. I have some more cover thoughts (sparked by the … Continue reading →

Some wiring problems burned out our internet access and made this a more, um, electrifying Easter weekend than we usually see in the Fortress of Engitude. So I missed most of the stuff relating to #Amazonfail until today. Call me … Continue reading →

Discovery 1: I finally found the time to post this week at Blog Gate; this one is a meandering maundering about reviews (including an understated nastygram from The New Yorker to Lord Dunsany, circa 1926). Discovery 2: Blood of Ambrose … Continue reading →

My Blog Gate post of the week is up, this one expressing the heretical opinion that adjectives and adverbs are good things. People who don’t have BG on their feed anymore (possibly to avoid the voxes, the little voxes that … Continue reading →