John Crowley writes an appreciation of Joan Aiken's Wolves of Willoughby Chase, and the sequels involving Dido Twite. (Ignore the headline, which is blatant clickbait--Rowling is barely mentioned in the essay.) (SF Signal)

MGK has a pretty cool piece of LotR-based fanfiction here, which is not unrelated to Jim Hines' essay about the way goblins ( Read more... )

Well, the brief hot weather blitz is over: we're back to fog again. My sinuses appreciate it, but I'm kind of sad, because we never really got a real summer. This is the first year since I moved to the Bay Area that I never needed to get the fan out of storage.

On the other hand, great news for the East Bay!One of the hazards of Kickstarter ( Read more... )