I have finally re-started plowing through books at a decent rate ( Read more... )

Dave Truesdale has a new column in the latest F&SF Online on the Sturgeon and Campbell winners ( Read more... )

I'm being thwarted at every turn. I may have to make the new machine dual Windows and Linux just to be able to run Second Life. Seems the windows emulator hates my version of Linux. The Second Life Linux versions need to be *run* somehow and I haven't figured out how to do that. I have multiple versions of all sorts of things downloaded onto my ( Read more... )

My PC has just hit the wall. I did not have enough free space on my C drive to do a defrag. So I backed up the entire drive and then deleted lots and lots of stuff. Still no joy, so I moved all my documents and all my games off onto another drive. Finally -- enough space to defrag ( Read more... )

[Tommy's letter pulled at his request.]

Tommy has decided that Parthenon is a good role model for gay kids. So I'll leave the URL:

http://verdantsf.blogspot.com/2007/08/parthenon-who-wants-to-be-superhero.html

This is a pretty thin book.

It occurs to me that with 800 page juveniles that need a sling hitting the market, the excuse for splitting Sharing Knife into two books is as thin as this second volume. "It completes the story" is what Glynnis said.

I'm not sure that is even true. This book may be the kind of marginal I expected Cetaganda to be ( Read more... )

I spent the better part of the last two days putting together my first web page ( Read more... )

The winners of the Robert A. Heinlein Centennial** story ( Read more... )

What was different about the Heinlein Centennial? The panelists took their participation pretty seriously. There were hardly any participants who were late or absent. Those I spoke to were full of praise for their audiences. They were gratified that the panels were packed with eager listeners. I heard that the depth of questions and comments ( Read more... )

A letter to Roger Tener ( Read more... )