Author Archives: JE

“Life According to Garfield Something Positive CONAN.”

1. Free books, from Suvudu. 2. New moon around Saturn, from Cassini. 3. Two vast, light-devouring holes in a death-spiral around each other. No, this is not a story about modern politics or finance.

My latest post on the Blog Gate is up, this one a quick snark-around-the-block covering the stories on the final ballot for the Nebula. Because, hey. Why not? (Please don’t tell me why.)

My dentist says I have an unusually long mandible. Apparently this is true even before I extrude my extensible jaws to attack my prey.

A couple of free e-texts I learned about in the past couple days: 1.) Pyr–an imprint with very sound judgement–has decided to make Sean Williams’ The Crooked Letter available as a free e-book. Although the book has cover art so … Continue reading →

The final ballot for this year’s Nebulas is up here. I guess I have some speed-reading to do before I vote…

I’ll be participating in Flycon, the online convention that starts two weeks from tomorrow. [edited for accuracy–thanks Sherwood!]

My latest Blog Gate post is up, this one a kind of review of James Blish’s The Warriors of Day (a.k.a. The Sword of Xota).

It looks like a recent study that seemed to support Freud’s Oedipal theory slipped up, as it were. In related news, it would be great if a Ben Stiller movie, starring Anne Meara, entitled Mother Focker had just been greenlighted. … Continue reading →

1. I hesitate to mention this, given a couple of odd threads that popped up, as it were, on my last post. But if they hadn’t, I would have mentioned this anyway, so I do so. If you follow me … Continue reading →