First, I might as well get it out of the way. No NaNo for me this year, not even my usual "I'll try to meet 50,000 words as a total of various short story writings). For the longest time I've been in a big writing slump with nothing really exciting me, storywise, and it'd just be painful to try to do NaNo with it. I will be trying to keep up ( Read more... )

The meme, in case you'd forgotten, was as follows:
I have a list of 15 characters whom you will not see until the answers are posted. Give me questions in the form of "3 and 8 are trapped in a cave-in; how do they survive?" and I'll try come up with wacky answers.
Only two people submitted questions, so to pad out the interest factor for me, I'm ( Read more... )

And what's more, a Canadian booksplosion ( Read more... )

Let's start with the books.

Finished: Ender in Exile, by Orson Scott Card

This story deals with Ender on his trip away from Earth and his first couple colony worlds. And what can I say about it? It's okay, but nowhere near the best of the Ender books. (slightly more spoilers behind the cut) ( Read more... )

So, Fan Expo. I will begin at the beginning. One March day in 1978, in a military base in BC, a young baby was born who... wait, that's too early. I'll just start with today. The preparation and journey: ( Read more... )

Finished: Year's Best SF 6, (short story collection) (reread)
Started: Ender in Exile, by Orson Scott Card ( Read more... )

Finished: A Fire in the Sun, by George Alec Effinger (reread)
Started: The Year's Best SF 6 (short story collection (reread)

A Fire in the Sun was enjoyable, but not quite as good as When Gravity Fails. Still, it made me eager to find the third book in the series.

Finished: Excession, by Iain M. Banks (reread ( Read more... )

First one in a while, since I stopped buying the only comics I buy due to the crossover ( Read more... )

Anyway, let's move on to Book Foo.

Finished: Iron Sunrise, by Charles Stross (reread)
Started: Excession, by Iain M. Banks (reread ( Read more... )

At work somebody saw me reading the first Riverworld book and asked me about it, and when I was trying to describe what it was about, I mentioned that it's probably in the Top Ten "Big Ideas" in Science Fiction, although, unfortunately, the story doesn't quite live up to the idea ( Read more... )