I see that, in the comments under Tom Doherty’s recent message on Tor.com, there is one from John C Wright, in which he makes the following claim:

I am not unrepentantly homophobic. I am nothing of the kind. It is a lie.

I follow the Catholic teaching on same sex attraction and how ( Read more... )

I haven’t done one of these in ages. Still been going to MoCCA every year, but I’ve been forgetting to record my hauls.

This year the festival was held at Center 548, way over (way, way, way the fuck over) on West 22nd St, near 11th Ave. The festival was held on the second through 4th floors of the building, with a tiny elevator and treacherously ( Read more... )

Treasures uncovered while looking for the gesso:

• A pack of a dozen 4×5-inch canvas panels, pre-primed, ready for painting.
• A small desktop easel.
• An old AOL bisk tin, filled with colored glass aquarium stones, of the type gamers use to track various game resources (hit points, Fate points, etc).
• My copies of four games from Cheapass Games’ “Hip ( Read more... )

I noticed, rereading Samuel Delany’s Nova a couple of weeks ago, that Delany doesn’t spend as many words as most male writers do talking about how hawt his female characters are, but he does quite often point out when his male characters have broad fingers, bitten nails, or work-roughened hands. The reasons are obvious if you know anything about ( Read more... )

Y’all are conspiring to make me read the Harry Dresden books, aren’t’cha?

At least I ought to be able to get ’em out of the library.

Google Books has confirmed for me something I recall noticing - that Orson Scott Card’s 1995 novel Alvin Journeyman takes place in a world populated by owls:

• Page 35: Becca hooted.
• Page 38: The boy hooted.
• Page 57: Alvin hooted derisively.
• Page 138: […] but Horace hooted […] It was Vilante’s turn to hoot with laughter.
• Page 192: The lanky one ( Read more... )

First foreshadowing: Yesterday, on the way to a NYRSF meeting, discovering that I neglected to put my current book (A Betrayal in Winter by Daniel Abraham) in my shoulder bag. I make do on the subway trip with a copy of The Onion from a sidewalk stand.

Second foreshadowing: Just a few minutes ago, realizing that actually A Betrayal in Winter has ( Read more... )

I started An Evil Guest, Gene Wolfe’s latest, on the way to Games Club yesterday. (Oh, lost a lot of games of Race for the Galaxy and Dominion.) Here are things I’m noticing as I go; page references are from the first Tor hardcover:
( Here's your spoiler-cover )

Via jimhenley, here's the table of contents of Green Ronin's book Hobby Games: The 100 Best. Titles I own (or have owned) are in bold, titles I've played are in italic, titles I've both are both:

( Big long list )

Has anyone else considered this?
LionDzur Lamb??? Polar bearTsalmoth? Walrus??? Salt marsh harvest mouseTeckla Wildebeest??? Ant??? Worm-eating fernbirdHawk? Phoenix? Athyra? Sea otterOrca? Giant anacondaDragon? Yendi? Kangaroo??? Sort of a cross between a frilled
lizard and a common house catTiassa Wild dingo??? EmuIssola? Tapir??? FrogJhegaala ( Read more... )