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My Blog Gate post for the week is up, this one a late-breaking review of a movie you may have already heard a little about. Unless that’s actually last week’s post, which I unaccountably skipped. Actually, I could account for … Continue reading →

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HarperStudio is publishing a collection of hitherto uncollected (mostly, I understand, unpublished) works by Twain and, to celebrate, they and the New Yorker‘s BookBench are giving away a free audiobook version read by John Lithgow, at least for a week …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