Who knew Richard Baines was such a badass? Elizabeth Bear did. I didn't want him to be, didn't seem fair but there it was.

A Companion to Wolves is beautiful. Elves that are also dwarves, the reverse double-looped backhand genderfuckery, the harsh grandeur of the closely pseudo-Nordic tundra and giant psychic wolves that kill trolls for a living ( Read more... )

You realize now, of course, that every single thing discussed here will have to show up at some point, right? Otherwise, you lot will never hear the end of it from fanboys like myself.

Bought Elizabeth Bear's Dust. /Nyah-nyah-nyahnyah-nyah/

Just finished page 71 and the setting keeps getting more interesting every time I think about it. Surely diminishing returns will kick in at some point.

Shadow Unit is up and running. Yes!

Archinformists aren't hackers, archinformists are librarians. It's just that their library is more ... encompassing than yours.

There are only two writers whose work I buy no questions asked, regardless of how much or how little money I might have at the time. They are Elizabeth Bear and Peter Watts.

Point in case.

EDIT: well, three if you count Hannibal Tabu.

Whereas the truth is this: life is about adapting to trauma. Life is about finding work-arounds. Life is also about using that trauma, because the thing about broken edges is they cut.

And knives are tools as much as weapons. - Elizabeth Bear
Centuries from now (assuming we aren't all giant posthuman ameobas by then) people will quote this woman as ( Read more... )

Dear Elizabeth Bear,

I get it now.

Not why you have as much love for Criminal Minds as you do - although watching the last eight eps of Season One (thanks BPL Codman Square) and the first ep of Season Two (thanks youtube) is going no small way to showing me that too - but why you write so many characters in their late middle-age ( Read more... )

In case you live under a rock in a pocket dimension and just poked your head out to sightsee, John Scalzi (writer of* Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades and most recently, The Android's Dream) has put up the sequel to Ghost Brigades/prequel to The Last Colony in audio form (nine mp3 chapters, all told) at The Whatever. Drinks up, folks, it's good ( Read more... )