I went to the public library last week to do a grad-studenty kind of odd job, and I found the first Donald Strachey book, Death Trick, which I had managed to miss when I did my big Strachey snorkage back in September. Now that I've seen the library's copy, I'm not surprised that I missed it; unlike their other Strachey volumes, they have this one ( Read more... )

Right now, I'm at one of my very favorite parts of fic-writing: the bit where I have one simple question, have looked up a book that will not only tell me the answer (I hope; I haven't actually fetched the book from the library yet) but will also give me a whole new range of fascinating details to flesh out the story, and perhaps inspire more ( Read more... )

I remembered finding a book in my high school library, lo these many years ago when dinosaurs walked the earth, in which Isaac "the modern Renaissance Man" Asimov turned his formidable writing talents to the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the miracles of keyword searching, I located both volumes in the University library, and I've been ( Read more... )