Looking over my November list I'm only seeing four free-range short stories.  Andy Merino's grotesque transformation story of a pioneer journey in the Oregon Trail Diary of Willa Porter.  Then Benjamin Rosenbaum's bureaucracy and social media during the zombie apocalypse in Feature Development for Social Networking.  Su Yee Lin has a dreamscape ( Read more... )

Or Sharpe vs. the Expliotation of the Working Class. This one is entirely made for the BBC series I think. Including the unexpected half-brother. Though the bits with Rossendale and Sharpe's wife are from the books. I did like seeing Alexis Denisof as Rossendale...

Been putting off trying to do last month's list. Mostly because of it being over fifty books. The majority of which is from rereading all thirty-five volumes of the Grantville Gazette anthologies at work. Plus the first two Ring of Fire anthologies after getting the 3rd's advanced reader copy as an e-book ( Read more... )

This episode probably departs the most from the original book. Ditching the entire Navy/Army confict. But still it has Fredrick's, the ugliest English officer in all of creation. And Harper yanking out his OWN rotten tooth with a pair of pliers as part of a ruse. Also for the 5th or 6th time, a noble who is supposed to be on the British side, ( Read more... )

Richard Sharpe is caught up in a game of spy and counterspy with a beautiful young nun caught in the middle. Can the legendary British sol...wait...is that Mark Antony? Holy crap! It is James Purefoy. And Sir Henry Simonson again? That slimy little weasel!