I am a big fan of David Weber’s Honor Harrington Series, which is on book 11, with several side novels* and 4 short story anthologies. To the dismay of his Honor fans, Mr. Weber writes in other worlds than just that one. I think we’re on a two and a half year hiatus (something like …
Category Archives: Books
Harry Potter 7 is to be Two Movies
I saw on the newswire that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be broken up into two movies. “It was born out of purely creative reasons,” producer David Heyman told the Times. “Unlike every other book, you cannot remove elements of this book.” I call bullshit. There’s no reason they can’t perform the surgery …
Children of Men: The Movie!
This is such an old draft, I’m not sure why I never finished it. I watched this movie in October. Alert readers may recall that I read the P.D. James novel, Children of Men, last summer. I didn’t like it. See the link for why. Now, I’ve finally gotten around to watching the Movie that …
Lord of the Rings News
I know I’ve been ignoring all of my normal blog sites when I have to get news like this through AP. Tolkien Estate Sues New Line Cinema. My geek card just lost a corner, I think.
Harry Dresden News
Other than the fact that the next book in the Harry Dresden series will be coming out in April which I’m very much looking forward to, there a novella being published that features Harry’s older brother Thomas. Here’s a quote that is entirely sweet: I’m not Harry Dresden. Harry’s a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. …
Presidential Politics
At some point in the next several months, I’m going to have to decide who to vote for in the 2008 US Presidential Elections. I am a citizen, and it is my right and duty to vote. Usually, I’ll weight the issues and the stances the various candidates have taken on them. Plus I’ll allow …
The Golden Compass = Antichristian?
Phillip Pullman’s books and the movie based upon the first one, The Golden Compass, have been receiving a lot of hate-press recently due to their perceived anti-christian outlook. The gist is, “Pullman is an atheist [true], who is trying to turn our kids to the devil [only true from a certain perspective].” I could discuss …
Top Science Fiction Authors
The top 16 science fiction authors, as measured by Hugo and Nebula awards, are listed by SF Signal I find it interesting that of the sixteen authors, I don’t like the works of eight. Does this make me shallow? I also find it interesting that the number one awarded author on this list, Connie Willis, …
Gay Dumbledore
Jenn alerted me to the news fracas caused by J.K. Rowling saying that Dumbledore was gay (is gay? Do the portrait people have love-lives?). Apparently, there’s always been suspicion amongst fans that he was gay, due to his lack of a love interest and other items. Personally, I never pulled up a hint of gayness …
Holy Racism, Batman!
Through a fluke set of circumstances, I ended up beginning to read the story, “Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle.” You may recognize this as the derivation of the acronym TASER (Thomas A. Smith Electric Rifle). Not knowing much about the story, who wrote it, or when it was published, I dove in. As I …