Today is the official release date of Kate Bush's "Before the Dawn" live CD, recorded live in London at the Eventim Apollo in 2014. I was fortunate enough to be there for the 09 September show ( Read more... )

Courtesty of thnidu comes this comic-strip nutshell review of Cordwainer Smith.

(This also lets me put in another plug for the excellent The Rediscovery of Man: The Complete Short Science Fiction of Cordwainer Smith, edited by lauriemann's husband, Jim).