The Big Front Yard by Clifford D. Simak My rating: 4 of 5 stars Read for the 12 in 12 Challenge and the Big Fun in a Little Package Novella Challenge. This story won the 1959 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. This story is a fun speculation about what happens when ordinary folks in a […]
Read More Book Review: The Big Front Yard by Clifford D. SimakThe Centauri Device by M. John Harrison My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Hard-Core Sci-Fi Challenge, the Space Opera Challenge, the SF Masterworks Challenge, and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club here on Goodreads. This crazy book reads like a combination of Philip K. Dick, Alfred Bester, and Douglas Adams. Part madcap […]
Read More Book Review: The Centauri Device by M. John HarrisonOriginally posted on Graffiti on the Walls of Time:
I’ve been wanting to write, honestly I have. It’s just that I’ve been too busy writing. As you know, The Killing Scar is drafted, but that was only the beginning of the work. First I had to edit it, which means I had to re-read it,…
I hope this holiday season brings you food, friends and family (in that order; sometimes family is a mixed blessing!) However you choose to celebrate, Happy Holidays! Enjoy this awesome playlist I found of geekish holiday songs and videos! And may you and yours find all the best in the New Year! (And by the […]
Read More Happy Holidays!Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection by Isaac Asimov My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Genre Non-Fiction and the Collections! Reading Challenges. This collection represents the last batch of stuff that Isaac Asimov gave to us. Half of it is stories, and the other half is a collection of essays about science […]
Read More Book Review: Gold by Issac AsimovBy Sylvia McKeown It’s the end of the world as we know it and if you want to survive, best you get a little creative on the food front. Some apocalyptic appetite pleasers for Halloween: KICK THE CAN Every serious cook knows that you are only as good as your larder, but this time it’s […]
Read More A Foodie’s Guide to Surviving the Zombie ApocalypseOriginally posted on The Angry Staff Officer:
If you’re like me, you discovered the TV show Firefly well after the time it first ran in 2003. While we were spared the original heartbreak that came when the show was not renewed for a second season – damn you, Fox – we are still reminded of…
By Judith Tarr Here we have our two contestants for this week’s match, the first in SFF Equines history (but not, perhaps, the last): on this side the tall, white, shining, magical, beautiful king of stallions who deigns to carry the great Wizard; and over on that side, the short, brown, fuzzy, unromantic, pretty definitely not-a-stallion who […]
Read More Middle-earth Cage Match: Bill the Pony vs. ShadowfaxBy C.S. Lakin For this week’s Throwback Thursday, we’re looking at an excerpt from a previous post titled Words of Advice from Famous Authors That Are Just Wrong. I imagine this post is bound to draw some criticism, but bring it on! Maybe it’s just me, but when I read pithy statements from famous authors that are […]
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