So a while back Viz, a company mostly known for their work translating manga, started up Haikasoru--a line of translated Japanese "Space Opera, Dark Fantasy and Hard Science" novels called . A few of the books are available on Kindle and I picked one up (Harmony) and enjoyed it quite a bit.

I heard about the line from james_nicoll who just did a comparison ( Read more... )

So the other day on my flist someone asked "why stay on LJ if you hate it so much?" It was a rhetorical question, not aimed at me in particular, which is why I didn't answer it there ( Read more... )

So apparently, after the pounding he took on Mallozzi's blog, Wright's gone over to Gateworld and made it clear that somewhere along the line, he lost his big girl's panties. He doesn't respect us because we don't respect him and he's upset that we were so mean to him ( Read more... )

This comes out of a discussion being held in a flocked post of mine. I though about doing a poll but I'm pretty sure I'd leave things out and so I'm just going to ask some questions ( Read more... )

Since it's apparently perfectly all right to tell other people how they should and should not participate in fandom, I thought I'd jump on the bandwagon ( Read more... )

Last night's post was an irritated rant because sometimes fandom just annoys me and it seemed like someone put something in the water this weekend ( Read more... )

So of course, with the most recent update from OTW--Organization of Transformative Works--there is discussion and yes, even wank. Imagine that ( Read more... )

First off, I loved "Tabula Rasa" for the same reasons everyone else did. I'm not going to do a review because there are so many good ones out there and for the most part my review would be nothing new.

But I want to talk about Katie and Rodney because...well I just do.

( What if Katie were the regular and Rodney was the occasional boyfriend who got in the way of Katie's fans' OTP? )

I have times when I think I'm actually pretty good at this whole writing thing and then I have times when I get stuck and think I suck and then there are times like now ( Read more... )

I found the whole "argument about Elizabeth and her replicator nanites" thing bit in "Adrift" really interesting. Because I don't see it as a two-way argument, or if it was, it wasn't between John and Rodney. The way I see it, Rodney was in the middle of what should have been an argument between John and Keller. It came down to something only ( Read more... )