I have a new fandom. And it's brand-new: the book came out in the spring. Ada Palmer, a history professor with a sterling academic background (Bryn Mawr and I believe Harvard) published her first novel, Too Like the Lightning. How to describe it? A realistic but overall pleasant (I wouldn't quite say "utopian") 25th century for us humans. No aliens ( Read more... )

Glorious to have a weekday off to Get Things Done!

So, I was listening to a Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast (recommended if you have any interest in pop culture: topics range from To Kill a Mockingbird to that awful new Batman v. Superman movie) and one segment was going around the roundtable asking, "What is your favorite pop culture object?" I ( Read more... )

I have a new obsession. It's all blu_harvest's fault. I'm endlessly grateful to blu_harvest for squeeing about Torchwood and thus introducing me to it. (You did so squee. Especially about Jack.)

Anyway, Torchwood, for those of you who don't know, is a British science fiction show, a spinoff from the newer Dr. Who series. I hadn't seen it but the way blu_harvest went on ( Read more... )