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It looks like F&SF is switching to a bimonthly schedule. (According to Ansible.) Hard to see this as a good thing. (I’m not knocking the decision, which seems like a reasonable response to intense economic pressures. I’m just saying.)

2008: a big year for the good and the bad in my life. Which I guess is how I like it, on unbalance, so set me up another one, bartender. The voice on this one isn’t much, but I like … Continue reading →

1. My last Blog Gate post of the year is up, part of what is turning into a running conversation with Judith Berman about fantasy and realism. (Here’s her latest post responding in part to my post last week.) 2. … Continue reading →

I’m not a huge fan of media tie-in fiction as a rule, but I’m not biased against it. In particular, I think gaming fiction gives someone a chance to explore an imaginary world independent from any interest in the gameplay … Continue reading →

Here’s hoping you’re having a good Christmas/Hannukah/Newtonmass/Thursday. It’s been a pretty good Christmas so far here in the Great Black Swamp. Our new cats, Lewis and Clark, are seen here discovering the holiday, unheard of before by the feline species … Continue reading →

My latest Blog Gate post is up, a somewhat seasonal number entitled “Killer Trees with Icy Fangs Roasting on an Open Fire”. But it’s really about why fantasy is more realistic, in some ways, than realism, a point I was … Continue reading →

1. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead: the trailer is here and it looks like a riot. Interesting to see Jeremy Sisto there playing a NY homicide cop with a certain natural authority. Someone should hire him to do this on … Continue reading →

We’re well into the Saturnalia so here are a couple of seasonal poems by Martial (translations by the oversigned).

My long-delayed if not much-anticipated review of Otis Adelbert Kline’s The Swordsman of Mars is at last up at the Black Gate site. (The day sort of got away from me.) Writery types might also be interested in Ryan Harvey’s … Continue reading →

1. A brain more than 2000 years old has been discovered in a muddy pit. On examination it doesn’t appear to be mine, though, so I guess I’ll have to keep looking. (I know I left it around here somewhere.) … Continue reading →