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Herded by sartorias over to one of those “Who Am I?” sorts of quiz. What Kind of Reader Are You? Your Result: Obsessive-Compulsive Bookworm   You’re probably in the final stages of a Ph.D. or otherwise finding a way to … Continue reading →

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: SF Book Club Best 50 SF books 1953-2002 The 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy books, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you’ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, … Continue reading →

It turns out that, due to the disarray of the Robert E. Howard estate, much of his work is in the public domain. Wikisource has buckets of it online at the URL below. (Thanks to Gneech for the link.) http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Robert_E._Howard … Continue reading →

Courtesy of John O’Neill, here’s a review of Black Gate 9 from the Australian blog Horrorscope: http://ozhorrorscope.blogspot.com/2006/11/review-black-gate-9.html I always enjoy reading kind words about myself (or Morlock), but I was especially pleased to see the reviewer take notice of the … Continue reading →

sartorias discusses kids’ early language and how it represents creative thought. It provoked an interesting discussion, but my own reaction wasn’t really on her topic, so I put it here. My youngest brother, when he was still a preschooler, used … Continue reading →

Since I won’t normally be reviewing books here, I thought I’d make my first entry a book review. The book is Chris Roberson’s Paragaea. http://tinyurl.com/uyb42 The book involves a female cosmonaut falling through a hole in space to land on … Continue reading →