So, finished Bud Sparhawk's series of 6 Sam Boone short stories. All following roughly the same pattern ( Read more... )

I've accumulated a minor mountain of Analog and Asimov's magazines in my stack of Things To Read, so I'll be spending the next few weeks catching up on them I think. They tend to have at least a few short stories that I really enjoy and rarely contain anything I just totally dislike.

Analog: Science Fiction and Fact -- June 2008

Brittney's ( Read more... )

I was browsing Amazon week ago and came across a book called The Black Hole War among my recommendations. It sounded like a really nifty subject for a sci-fi novel. Nope.. non fiction. It's basically a history of physics: the major players, the major theories, and how they evolved over the last couple hundred years. The focus is on how the ( Read more... )

Advanced notice.. no spoilers here, safe for all readers ( Read more... )

Other books I've finished recently:

The Time Traders by Andre Alice Norton
Galactic Derelict by Andre Alice Norton
Voodoo Planet by Andre Alice Norton

I tried to read Flash by L. E. Modesitt. It wasn't agreeing with me, so I stopped reading. I'll give it another try after I finish a few other books to see if it fits me any better. If not, I'll ( Read more... )

Regretfully, I finished Brust's latest Vlad novel, Jhegaala. When's the next gonna be out?! I don't want to have to wait another couple years, dawgonit ( Read more... )

Saturday, I spent much of the day and most of the night in Tacoma attending the American Idol season 7 concert. I don't go to many concerts, of any sort. This was my first AI concert. If you enjoyed the top 10 of this past season, you'd have enjoyed the concert. If you didn't, then you wouldn't. Seems obvious, but that's another way to say, ( Read more... )

I almost talked myself into going back to Minnesota for CONvergence but decided that I shouldn't. Instead, I hope to be industrious and get a lot of house tidying done. Finish a few half-finished projects. Etc.

Last weekend was so hot here (upper 90's) that all I did was escape to places with air conditioning.. specifically restaurants and ( Read more... )

As a seed to hopefully get me to at least write up _something_ periodically, I opted to start with a list of what I've read since April 1:

Exiles of Tomorrow - Marion Bradley
Stars Seen Through Stone - Lucius Shepard
Kiosk - Bruce Sterling
Safeguard - Nancy Kress
Fountain of Age - Nancy Kress
Captive Girl - Jennifer Pelland
Pride - Mary ( Read more... )

This past weekend I attended 4th Street and had one of the best weekends I can remember.  It was incredible.  The energy.  The topics.  The good people.  No way to summarize the experience without leaving out just too many things.  Instead, wander over to the community here on LJ and read what everyone is saying.