Someone on a mailing list I'm on mentioned a story. I looked it up and it was quite a bit of fun. Seems there are four stories with the same characters.

Needles and Delaney are quite a pair. There is a fair bit of violence.

An Angry Man

An Unreasonable Man

An Implacable Man

An Unstoppable Man

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I've read E E. "Doc" Smith's The Skylark of Space more times than I can remember. I've kicked myself for years at passing up an opportunity to get a first edition.

A while back I bought a cheap collection of Doc Smith stories on Kindle. I've slowly been working my way thru them reading a chapter here and there between reading other things. So far ( Read more... )

Yes, you read that correctly. Australia (of course it's Australia) has something like 9 species of shark that can walk on their lower fins and survive low oxygen water conditions. Apparently they evolved this to hunt hunt in the tide pools of reefs.

They are small sharks, only about 3 feet long, so they aren't a danger to humans. Give them another ( Read more... )

For some reason a variation on the old Pillsbury jingle keeps popping up in my head.

At first it was just:

Nothing says lovin'
like something from the coven
and [blank] says best

The blank was irritating and finally I came up with "Avesbury" to fit the rhyme.

Now, mind you most of the fictional references to Avesbury that I've encountered were in ( Read more... )

"I still say it's gotta be volcanic," argued Arthur.

"It can't be. The moon isn't active enough for that," Dave replied.

It was an old argument but it helped pass the time while they ran the otherwise boring search grid.

Suddenly a light flashed on the control panel of the lunar buggy, and an alarm sounded.

"It's another water vapor spike! And this ( Read more... )

First off, some fun short stories about a naturist facility in a small town by Lordship Mayhem on Stories Online:
Manatee Bay

Next A series of stories about a British PC (Police Constable who gets introduced to naturism when he's assigned to investigate a break-in and vandalism at the local naturist club.
The Uncovered Policeman (Rags to Riches Book 1 ( Read more... )

I just discovered this fanfic by Tom Smith (yes, *that* Tom Smith)

Death and the Monster

It rings *so* true. Exactly the sort of fuck-up you'd expect from a certain one-eyed man.

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This is a setiup I've been playing with for the Swarm shared universe ( Read more... )

I may have mentioned this idea before, but some new ramifications of it occured to me ( Read more... )

I'm the schools patent attorney. So I'm used to getting shown oddball items that researchers have come up with. This one was a bit odder than usual. She had a laptop, a small rodent in a cage with something electronic attached to one wall and a sort of skullcap ( Read more... )