Today marked several things, two of which I’ll mention: One, I ran farther than I’ve ever run before (at one time). I mentioned this last fall, but I’m training for another half marathon and today I ran 13.3 miles. Very exciting, for me, at least. Two, we went to see Doomsday at the theater today. …
Category Archives: Fiction
David Weber Book for Sale
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 …
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 …
Sunshine
We finally got around to seeing the movie Sunshine”. In two words: It sucked. I wasted another two hours of my life on overblown trash. I’ve been looking forward to seeing this movie for 8 months and boy was I disappointed. The physics made no sense. The spaceship made no sense. The mission (even though …
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.
Cloverfield
Jenn and I saw Cloverfield last night. Rating, 4 stars (out of five). Firstly the things that bugged me: Buildings don’t lean against other buildings at the angles and heights that were shown in the movie. Also, if you’ve ever played the computer game “Half Life”, you’ll get some serious flashbacks while watching the film. …
I'm not an Oscar Guy
2007 is a celebrated year for the Ruhsam in our household. Why? Because I managed to see almost none of the Oscar-nominated films. You have to go all the way down to … wait! The nominations have been yanked as I looked at them. How amusing. I guess someone published the website too early. Anyway, …
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. …
"Save me Plz"
Recent Escape Pod short strory, “Save me Plz” has been released as free fiction, accoring to SFSignal. It’s an interesting story. If you’re into gaming, or role playing, or both, I recommend reading it, or listening to the Escape Pod episode.