Author Archives: JE

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 →

Intrepid editor Lou Anders has just put up a new Morlock story, “Fire and Sleet”, which explains what happened to the phoenix after “A Book of Silences”. It also contains helpful hints on keeping people from reading your mind while … Continue reading →

Part 2 of my non-awaited discussion of the novels nominated Nebula is now up at the Blog Gate. It contains my first conflict of interest! Not to be missed!

Word on the street is that Amazon and Barnes and Noble online have Blood of Ambrose in stock (with brick-and-mortar stores to follow shortly). Used copies are running $17.00 more expensive than new copies at Amazon–I have no idea what … Continue reading →

Somewhere over the Pacific it is still Wednesday, so I feel that my Blog Gate post of the week is not actually late. (Well, late-ish, maybe.)

Intrepid (and Hugo-nominated) editor Lou Anders (who is busy enough with more important things lately; see a recent interview here) has put up the full text of the Morlock story “A Book of Silences” (originally published in Black Gate 10). … Continue reading →

Franz Kafka International Airport: not as inviting as it sounds. Prague’s Franz Kafka International Named World’s Most Alienating Airport Maybe the weirdest thing about this joke is the cool professionalism with which the story is delivered by Bobbie Battista, a … Continue reading →