Downside: after a day which has already included a full-length comedy of travel errors (mostly of my own doing), I am currently grounded in Minneapolis. Also, for the icing on the cake, I broke my shoe ( Read more... )

The Dragon Waiting is one of those everything-and-the-kitchen-sink alternate histories -- the Byzantine Empire is evil and taking over France and Italy! and also there are WIZARDS! and also there are VAMPIRES! and also Owen Glendower was ACTUALLY FOR-REAL MAGIC! and also John M. Ford would like to argue pointedly with Shakespeare's interpretation ( Read more... )

I've been instructed that I should read John Ford's The Dragon Waiting, but before I got around to that I found myself in possession of a copy of Ford's The Last Hot Time, courtesy of
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