Georgia won her bout in round 1 of Unbound Worlds' 2017 Cage Match, and the second round has started, with Seanan writing this entry as well: "Cage Match 2017: Sci-Fi vs Fantasy Round 2: Kitty Katt vs Georgia Mason".“Well?” I demanded, looking up at the so-called “sky.” It was like standing in the middle of one of Buffy’s simulations, the ones ( Read more... )

Fannish/Geeky Things/SFF

"Russia Scandals May Make The Americans “Relevant,” but That’s Not What Makes It Great". [Slate]

"The Uncomfortable Legacy of Buffy's Xander Harris".

"Star Trek: Discovery casts Jason Isaacs as captain".

"Announcing “Nevertheless, She Persisted”, a Short Fiction Event Taking Place on March 8th". [Tor.com]

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My spoiler-free guest review of Feedback went up on Ageless Pages today!

(I also really like this review, which includes this bit of summary: Feed drew plaudits for its brash, unforgettable narrator, uncompromising journalist Georgia Mason. Feedback gives us another: Aislinn, a brash and brilliant take-no-prisoners Irishwoman, in the US by way of ( Read more... )

--I'm going back to the office tomorrow (for the first time in nearly a month), and in theory I should be in bed ~seven minutes~ from when I started writing this entry. Ha ha ha no. (But I'll try not to be up too much later.)

--So...I'm starting to think I might want to pass on finishing Penny Dreadful. >.< I haven't heard any specific spoilers ( ( Read more... )

There's no "mood" option for "indulging my fannish obsession a tad more shamelessly than usual". Seems like a clear oversight.

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Tonight I finally finished my most recent reread of Feed, which I started on January 15. O_o ( Read more... )

After I posted about the odd timestamp glitch I experience when I start drafting a post between 11:30 PM and midnight-or-so,
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--I started my Newsflesh reread tonight, and am not very far in--only a few chapters into Feed, so still in the very early "getting to know the world and the characters' place in it" bit. Seeing Shaun at the very beginning is so odd, still; he's in full-on performance mode, even when things get genuinely dangerous, and that makes him act like an ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon, at work,
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