Found via network: John M. Ford's books are being republished!

I haven't read a huge amount of Ford's non-Star Trek work (old copies being rather hard to come by), but what I have read was mind-blowing. Very pleased that his books, and assorted apocrypha, will soon be more readily available!

(Also, for the completist urge: a collection of ( Read more... )

Let's say you wanted to introduce someone to science fiction. But not just anyone: someone coming from a decidedly lit-fic background, someone who's going for a MFA or references Nabokov when discussing their own work. Assume a reasonably open mind, but no background beyond what you can't help absorbing from popular culture. (I'm modeling this ( Read more... )

Squeeeee! http://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/8046824-new-book

This entry was originally posted at http://lizvogel.dreamwidth.org/136816.html because I got tired of dealing with whatever LiveJournal had broken this time. Comment whereever.

Oh, Timothy Hallinan. You were so, so close to an outstanding book. I was really regretting that Crashed was released as a $15 trade paperback, because I was thinking this series was something I wanted my very own copies of and that's more than I'll generally pay for a book. Engaging characters, interesting plot, and a really compelling writing ( Read more... )

As always, to each their own, IMO, YMMV, etc., etc. More notes for my own reference than reviews proper; if you find something of use here, help yourself; if you think I'm completely wrong, well, that's why there are lots of different kinds of books in the world ( Read more... )

We stopped for a bite last night at the local branch of Claddagh Irish Pubs, which I suspect is about as Irish as green beer, but we like the food and for once they weren't having live music. This is one of those places that has shelves all around the eating areas, and the shelves are filled with a mishmash of decorative objects, including a lot ( Read more... )

Schuler Books, our local indie mini-chain, is celebrating their 30th anniversary this weekend. The celebration includes a sale.

The sale is 30% off on all the booksIt's the first time in longer than I can rightly remember that I've walked out of a bookstore with more books than I could comfortably carry. 30% just happens to take a paperback down ( Read more... )

Addendum to Day 1: I forgot the puppet theater! In addition to filking and foam swords Friday night, Mary Robinette Kowal brought out her portable shadow-puppet theater and did a condensed version of a classic puppet story (The Broken Bridge?) for us. Nifty ( Read more... )

The problem with doing a con report is that the better the con, the less time and energy you have to document it.

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