Well, that was a somewhat busy afternoon yesterday.

After lunch, spross came over after he got off work, and dropped off some of the stuff for the Primeval RPG material for me that I got him to print out ( Read more... )

I came home yesterday from work to find that one of my favourite author's last books had shown up in my snail mail.

Kage Baker has been one of my favourite authors since the debut of her first book, In the Garden of Iden, though I think I had read a couple of her short stories by then as well. I've read everything that has been published by this ( Read more... )

Spent a pretty quiet, somewhat relaxed, day yesterday.

Since I'm not running an rpg session today, as spross is doing some character generation with Tammy and me instead, I didn't have to frantically get some session material ready for today. Thus, I was able to get in some reading (see below), make a pot of chili for later, and put frozen portions ( Read more... )

It's a terrible, sad day for the science fiction and fantasy communities.

SF and fantasy author Kage Baker has passed away this morning after a battle with cancer.

For a beautiful appreciation of her, please visit Marty Halpern’s site to read “In the Company of Kage Baker”.

In the words of Jeff VanderMeer, ""I would like to think that this is ( Read more... )

I've finally done up the list of the books that I read in May, and to be honest, I am shocked and dismayed at how little reading I did last month. Now, granted that I had to attend CanGames last month and there was the preparation for that, and I was sick for the last week towards the end of the month and didn't read all that much, but still... ( Read more... )