In honour of Valentine's Day, here's a list of twenty-four (24) characters who should cross franchises to become couples.

24 Characters Who Should Cross Franchises to Become Couples

There's some...interesting crossovers here, for sure. And some intriguing pairings as well.

Sad news in the science fiction and fantasy literary community this day.

Martin H. Greenberg Has Passed AwayWhile I only met Martin H. Greenberg once, and that was at a convention in the 1980s, he was one of my favourite anthology editors around. I have quite a few anthologies that he edited solo or in combination with others, and have enjoyed ( Read more... )

As some rpg fans and readers of this journal know from several older posts, I've been looking around for a while for a science fiction rpg that I can run that a) I can afford to purchase stuff for; and b) that will hold my interest.

While I really have wanted to run a game set on Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoom, I don't want to run a Savage Worlds: ( Read more... )

The UGO website is featuring an interesting one at the moment:

The 100 Greatest Moments in Time Travel

For me, there are a few moments that didn't make the list, notably nothing from Primeval, especially that first moment when Nick Cutter stepped through an anomaly. And where are some of the classic moments of time travel from the very early ( Read more... )

*sigh*

Another death in the sf and fantasy community today.

Artist Frank Frazetta Has Died.While I started reading sf back when I was 8 or so in the 1960s, one of the things I remember most about a lot of early sf and fantasy that I read through the 1970s and 1980s was the book jackets of some of those works, and the artwork more often than not ( Read more... )

Should be an interesting day coming up.

Got the Sunday gaming group popping over today, and they're about to re-start the Desolation rpg campaign this afternoon. While oni_neko has left the gaming group (or maybe she'll be back at some point, I don't know), the three players - spross, Tammy, and hub_ - will be able to manage. I'll have to see if I need to throw a ( Read more... )

As most folks know, Denvention 3, the 56th World Science Fiction Convention, is currently underway. Here are the Hugo Award winners, and a few other things:

http://www.locusmag.com/2008/Hugo_Campbell_Winners.html

For those who are interested, you can see the ( Read more... )