It' has been almost three years since I posted in this journal. Oh the times they have changed. I'm now three years into the job I posted about -- and at one whole week of work I figured it was a keeper ( Read more... )

The good news is that I have finished my first week of work. Yes, a whole week. It's an interesting job, and it should be just the right thing to do for the rest of my work life.

Good books in the last month or two include Jo Walton's Ha'penny and Cherie Priest's Not Flesh Nor Feathers. I've done a bit of re-reading -- the first three Stirling ( Read more... )

We have about three more weeks to nominate our favorites for the 2007 Hugos. The Robert A. Heinlein Centennial Souvenir Book has articles by Spider and Jeanne Robinson, Allen Steele, David Brin, John Scalzi, Jordin Kare -- and even more tributes to the master of fiction. It also had a poem Heinlein wrote in high school, his first story, written ( Read more... )

I finished Not Flesh Nor Feathers by Cherie Priest. She is a very good writer -- and while I may have found Wings to the Kingdom to be slightly more satisfying, this was still an excellent read. One of the things she does is make her monsters real and alien. She also makes her human characters a lot more real -- mixed virtue and fault -- so ( Read more... )

Of all those mouse pads I made for the Heinlein Centennial, I'm down to 5 of Pixel and 6 of Free Luna! And when they are gone, I will take them off my web site. Oh ugh, my nice HTML editor died with my other PC. I will probably have to get it a new motherboard or put the software on my laptop. I suppose I could just pull down the HTML and edit ( Read more... )

I finished Priest's Four and Twenty Blackbirds. No surprises in it since I read the second book before the first. I am still reading Dreadful Skin, a book of hers unrelated to the other two. I am finding it hard going, though I don't know why.

Meanwhile, I polished off Jo Walton's Ha'penny and Robin McKinley's Dragonhaven. Loved the Walton, a ( Read more... )

John Scalzi had some excellent advice on his blog, the Whatever, awhile back. It was to find and read the fiction of Cherie Priest.

I managed to find a copy of her Wings to the Kingdom, and it was excellent. Even within the first chapter, I could tell that I had latched onto a solid job of storytelling. I really want to get hold of all the rest ( Read more... )

I had someone from England order a Heinlein Centennial shirt and a mug from my web site, and she wrote to say they arrived today. I was glad to hear it because the Post Office can't do overseas delivery confirms ( Read more... )

This week isn't the first time I wished that Pat Taylor were still alive, but when I finished Green Glass Sea the feeling was particularly sharp. She would have loved this book. In the clearest sense, she was "one of our kind of girls" -- the kind who followed her interests instead of the conventions.

Green Glass Sea is a YA novel about a young ( Read more... )

Ah yes, The Bid. It's over. Montreal will host the 2009 WorldCon ( Read more... )