Oh, geez, I forgot to crosspost this when I put it on Facebook! Sorry, guys. On the plus side: you'll get two for one now.

( Anathem, by Neal Stephenson )

Note: this is not an exhaustive list by any means. But since I only read 7 of my List of 10 for 2013, I thought I'd note briefly other books that made an impression on me last year. Here they are!

( Other Books I Read in 2013 )

I think I have discovered a writer I should have found long before. What a brilliant science fiction novel--I'm off to read Haldeman's other work already.

( The Forever War )

I promise I'll be reviewing some of the non-fiction eventually. In fact, the next two will both be non-fiction--I've finished one and am nearly done with another.

( Embassytown )

mrizh and I finally got around to watching one of last year's sci-fi films, In Time.

I hope you'll pardon this review, which is half actual thoughts and half thoughts on potential fanfic. :)

( Mixed reaction: mediocre film, astonishing futuristic worldbuild )

I ought to be more careful, or I'll end up reading all the fiction off this list before I get to any of the hardcore non-fiction.

( Snow Crash )

I'm sort of half-way ripping this idea off from someone-- tree_and_leaf, iirc. So apologies and credit due there.

kalquessa once said that she could bring me just about any book, say "point to God," and I could do so, and there He would be, and would have been there all along ( Read more... )

It appears that I haven't posted for 6 days. Um, sorry? That's kind of unusual, I know. It's not even that I've been running around like a crazy person or wrapped up in a great new script or anything. I've just been slow, trying to keep everything balanced, and depressed and not coming up with stuff to post.

A couple of quick catch-up notes:

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This is for anyone who reads or publishes in paper (or, more particularly, web-based) sci-fi publications ( Read more... )

Okay, so one of my roommates and I were talking about scifi TV, and she mentioned that she's been trying to identify a show that she watched in the early 80's--one of the very first shows that the Nickelodeon cable channel ran.

She thinks it may have been an imported British or Canadian show. (NOT The Tomorrow People, because she used to watch ( Read more... )