Yesterday was an idiotic day. There's no getting around that. In the end, after the internet went out and wouldn't come back on, we gave up and went out to Leeds to spend the night at my mother's. That was our second trip to Leeds yesterday. And then, on top of it all, I couldn't sleep last night. No more than two hours, and now I can hardly sit up ( Read more... )

Originally posted by grrm at The Horrors on Pluto
Mordor is on Pluto! Who knew ( Read more... )

"[I]gnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge; it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science." ~ Charles Darwin ( Read more... )

This bit from a piece on the upcoming WFC (at the online half of Weird Fiction Review) was rather nice to see: "Beloved weird author Caitlín R. Kiernan was nominated for The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories - a fantastic collection that validates Kiernan’s role as one of weird fiction’s most talented living writers." Every now and again I need a little ( Read more... )

1. Twenty years ago today Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction opened in theaters. That seems pretty much impossible. The impact of that one film on my own fiction was enormous. I saw it nine times in the theater, at a time when I didn't have money to spend on movies. I was astounded. The dialogue, the gleeful mayhem and profane twists and turns of the ( Read more... )

Providence is possibly the worst place on earth to be an astronomer, so it's fortunate that I'm not. The past six years, anytime anything interesting is going on in the sky, you can bet green folding money the weather will be overcast. Last night, for example, the first "full honey moon" (or "rose moon") since 1919, and it was cloudy. Today, we are ( Read more... )

Originally posted by apod at The Antennae Galaxies in Collision

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap140316.html


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This spate of insomnia appears to have no intention of ever letting go of me. Last night was especially difficult. I lay awake. I lay awake and thought the sorts of thoughts I should not think even when I am awake. I lay awake and worked out, down to lines of dialogue, the first bit of The Dinosaurs of Mars. Then I worked out the opening of the ( Read more... )

Please have a look at the current eBay auctions. Thank you ( Read more... )

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