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Readercon 23
Okay, a very brief Readercon report. I had a fantastic time, though Friday was exhausting since I was on three panels and did a reading.
Panel One was on theological debate in SF and fantasy. I got to meet James Morrow, who wrote Only Begotten Daughter, a favorite book of mine, and had a chance later to chat with Kathryn Smith Morrow, who is very ( Read more... ) -
RIP Borders
Well, for those who follow the book industry, it is hardly a surprise, but Borders has announced that it is being liquidated. Given that the superstore concept has, in my opinion, done as much harm as good to publishing, and to new and midlist authors, and has certainly killed off no small number of the independent and small bookstores that I ( Read more... ) -
Readercon 2011
Okay, I'm back from Readercon and if I don't sum it up now, I will procrastinate and never get to it, like when I was at the Council of Nicea the first time and had that really cool interview with the emperor Constantine where he admitted to having a peculiar fetish involving ham sandwiches, but which I never got around to posting. So here it is ( ( Read more... ) -
Readercon Schedule 2011
Well, assuming a giant comet doesn't smack into the Earth between now and then, I should be at Readercon in less than two weeks. In keeping with no particular tradition, here is my schedule, which will no doubt be supplemented by various moral outrages once the weekend begins:
Friday July 15
1:00 PM NH Reading. Harold Torger Vedeler. ( Read more... ) -
Readercon
Well, I have returned from Readercon, and thought I could share some of my thoughts and experiences on the convention, which was quite a lot of fun. Conventions, whether academic or otherwise (and I'm not entirely sure where Readercon falls in that), are really more social events than anything else, and so I'll start there.
I met a number of very ( Read more... ) -
The Two Worlds of Gor
Having been the inspiration of sovay's recent post about Assassin of Gor, I feel I should offer a few comments about Gor, so to explain, in part at least, just WHAT THE HELL I WAS THINKING when I loaned her that book.
Okay. Over a curry dinner, I commented that Assassin of Gor resembled the typical James Bond movie plot: undefeatable hero, hot, sexy ( Read more... ) -
Fun Stuff!
Today I went to the Peabody Museum with sovay and we looked at dinosaurs, particularly with the new Torosaurus statue outside. Then we went and picked up my spiffy new suits, which make me look cool.
Then we watched High Plains Drifter, which was both creepy and cool and a reminder to us all to mark those damn gravestones. -
I'm still here....
Well, after an auspicious start of a whole one livejournal entry, this place has been rather quiet. I haven't been, of course, and have had a busy year dissertating (Samsuiluna of Babylon, son of Hammurabi, was cool: this is my thesis) and writing.
I had one story, Choices, published in the Yale Graduate School literary magazine Palipsest in the ( Read more... ) -
Introduction
Okay, this is my first attempt at one of these, so bear with me. I figure this will be a good place for me to post my reviews of things I like and don't, often for totally irrational reasons. Nonetheless, I'll tray and explain myself when I do, but as guidelines, here are some pointers ( Read more... )