This is my to-be-read pile. It is large. There are 18* books of one type or another in it. One is three books in one (“Confusion” by Neal Stephenson), two are compilations of short stories (Best of Lovecraft and Collected Stories of Arthur Clarke), one is self-help (“7 Habits of Highly Effective People”)one is an …
Category Archives: Fiction
Down with Klausner!
I was alerted to the Infamous Harriet Klausner by SFSignal.com last fall. I posted once or twice about her. Now there’s developments. Check out the SFSignal post for details
Harry Potter Outreach Program
One of my favorite blogs is SFSignal.com. You know this if you read this blog as I link there frequently. They have a new challenge! The Harry Potter Outreach Program, intended to convince all those people lined up at bookstores on July 21st (advent of the last Harry Potter novel) that HP is not the …
Jane Austen, Dr. Who, Jack Aubrey, Buffy…
This would be the best literary mashup of all time.
SF Movies I Need to See (again): SF Movie Series Part One
I’m sure I’m not the only one who has a list of “classic” films that they’ve never seen. It wasn’t until about two years ago that I watched Casablanca, I’ve never seen The Graduate which some people assure me is a crime, and I’ve never watched Fast Times at Ridgemont High which I know is …
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J.K. Rowling Set to Cash In
It’s no surprise to anyone that J.K. Rowling is positioned to make a great deal of money from the 7th installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. USA Today had an article concerning the initial print run of 12 million copies for HPaDH, which is freaking huge! The same article …
Harry Potter and the Unread Book
Apparently, a large percentage of 4,000 Britons (32%) couldn’t finish Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. I suppose I can understand that; it’s a large book. But what really prompts my post is the following quote from the linked article. The figure was 32% for the fourth instalment [sic] in the Harry Potter series, …
Baen Free Library
Have I plugged the Baen Free Library recently? No, I do not believe that I have. This is a wonderful resource for those of us who enjoy the fiction that is published by Baen Books. Do take advantage of it by reading these novels entirely for free! No strings! And, once you’re used to reading …
50 Most Significant SF & Fantasy Novels (of the past 50 years)
This particular meme has been spreading through the blogging community I frequent, especially scienceblogs (of which I read about 1/3), and I thought I would chime in.
Peter Hamilton; Void Trilogy
For anyone who cares, Peter Hamilton is supposed to be publishing the first novel of the Void Trilogy in summer ’07. Yay for us. Hopefully, he will have scaled back a bit from the grand overarching craziness that was Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained. They were both wayyyyy too long and complex. I believe that …