It's been an interesting day for me. Stuff has been unfolding over its many hours, and I've done the usual of trudging through it without a single frown. But the frown's there, I promise; you just can't see it from your ivory towers. Alas, it's stuff I can't really talk about on a public form. I wish, I wish I could, but I know I'd only end up ( Read more... )

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Look, I know in our field it's pretty standard (and 97.8% easy) to make fun of the covers Baen Books puts out. They are gaudy and silly and glaringly offensive to graphic designers young and old, as well as a slew of other things. Unfortunately (or maybe in PR's eyes fortunately), they stand out on bookshelves like giant hairy moles, and on my ( Read more... )

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China Miéville is now blogging.

OR IS HE?

Here’s the copy of The Inferno by Dante Alighieri that I have on my bookshelf:


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Many months ago, Cablevision took away a number of channels from me (MTV, ABC Family, VH1, and Lifetime, among others) unless I paid more $$$, and all has been fine and dandy since then. I don't watch that much television anyways. Granted, I do wish I could watch some of the upcoming Christmas flicks on ABC Family for their badly scheduled ( Read more... )

Um, evidently there's this anthology coming out from DAW called Zombie Raccoons & Killer Bunnies (edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Kerrie Hughes) and it has the worst cover art seen this side of a petting zoo. Bad as in...what is going on here sort of bad. It's true. Even Scalzi is (mostly) without words.

I decided to toy around in Photoshop and ( Read more... )