I was one of the zillions who loved the Dragon books.

Thank you for all of the stories Ms. McCaffrey!

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/11/anne-mccaffrey-in-remembrance
... yanked from matociquala

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I am sad to hear today (on the excellent Coode Street podcast), that Diana Wynne Jones has passed. I loved many of her books, and always planned to go read some more. Still do.

Always thought that her books would make a fine basis for a contemporary kid's fantasy movies.

RIP

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This list is leading me to more genre to read and watch! Woo hoo, librarians are heroes indeed!

20 Heroic Librarians Who Save the World

science and fanfic. Life is good. If typically strange.

Harlan Ellison is selling off a chunk of his book collection, from his own rare editions to those given him by friends. Ah, the days of giant bookcases ( Read more... )

The current Pub Songs Broadcast podcast (by Marc Gunn) features filk music. Awesome tune from the point of view of the Seven Dwarfs, the Jedi Drinking Song, etc. Makes excellent background music for work (well, IMO). :-)  Enjoy.

Coming from Ikea; manga inspired goodies. I can so see this working in many a fan's home/closed.

And also riffing from Apartment Therapy's article there, my Ikea name: SLOBJALANSS (minus the dot things over the As); a three drawer cabinet of some sort. ;-)

Super cool: Abstracts from a 2009 symposium on sexuality/queerness in science fiction. Very tasty (if painfully laid out on the ever so long page).

Think I ganked this from Jay Lake, but that was hours ago, so I'm not sure! ;-)