Woke up, boiler was still not working. As I'd suspected it would, it turned off during the night. I went down to check, and sure enough the glass water gauge was empty and the house was down to 55 degrees ( Read more... )

Book 7: The Way of the Wizard  edited by John Joseph Adams,  isbn 9781607012320, 477 pages, Prime Books,  $14.95

I find pretty much every anthology I read to be hit-or-miss, but I also find that anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow or John Joseph Adams are more hit than miss. While I was disappointed at the absence of a Harry Dresden story in an ( Read more... )

Book 41: To Open The Sky  by Robert Silverberg, isbn 425038106 , 209 pages, Berkeley, long out of print, $3.00 or so, in used bookshops. It's also on the Kindle apparently, but Amazon didn't list pricing.

To Open The Sky is a set of five novellas (originally published seperately in magazine form) that cover roughly a hundred years of "future ( Read more... )

So remember back in April, when I posted about having lost, or possibly lent out or accidentally given away, the copy of Robert Silverberg's To Open The Sky that I had owned since 6th grade?

The other night, as I was clearing out yet another batch of books to go to the used bookstore, I looked at a shelf I swear I've looked at every time I've tried ( Read more... )

I've tweeted about it, I've emailed people about it, and I've mentioned it on Facebook, so as Dave pointed out, I may as well post about it, too ( Read more... )