See You Sunday
All local folks, please join me on Sunday afternoon at Settle Down Easy Brewing Company, 2822 Fallfax Drive, Falls Church, VA, 2pm to 6pm (although we may be...
Why Are Pilots Titled Pilot? Be More Creative...
Review: Orphan Black: Echoes 1.1 “Pilot” I wasn’t sure what to expect from the sequel to Orphan Black. I wasn’t quite expecting this. Set in the 2050s, it at...
One, Two, Three Kinky Ladies - Sex Worker Positivity in Midsomer Murders
Sometimes, I watch detective shows. I don’t typically review them here because it’s not the focus, but I do watch them.Lately, I’ve been poking around...
Buried In Non Fiction
I’m still plowing through the non-fiction parts of the Hugo packet, but am about to move on to the Lodestar. Which means there will be reviews again. I have...
What a Week
Happy Independence Day, U.S. of A. Happy Yeet the Tories Day, U.K. Look, I don’t often talk about politics here, but that was quite an election. The Tory...
So...Uh...
Guess who hasn’t watched any spec fic TV this week. Yeah, that will be me.What have I been watching?Recorded science panels from Balticon. Midsomer Murders,...
But AI Is Great For The Environment - According to that One Study in Nature
This paper has started to circulate. It’s in Nature and appears to have been peer reviewed. So, is it true? Should I give up writing or use AI to write...
Ready for Summer Reading?
It is that time of year. I have two reviews this week, of very different books.Review: Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle Chuck Tingle is a satirical smut writer,...
Last Girls and Beer!
So, first off, we postponed the June Books & Brews to July because nobody could make it. This means we have two events in July. The first is at Settle Down...
Who is Mrs Frost?
The caption on this, delivered in perfect Hermione voice by a small child: He must have crashed it. Again. Doctor Who 1.9 “Empire of Death” So, Sutekh has...
Computers in Space!
I had the great privilege to spend a bit of time with Vandi Varma in Pasadena. She’s a leading NASA roboticist and is one of the two people who wrote the...
Nebula Winners Analysis Part Two
And now for part two. Nebula Award for Short Story Winner: “Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200” by R.S.A. Garcia Apparently everyone wanted cute robots...
Off in Ohio
Once again, I’m not actually here. I’ll most likely be in the Columbus convention center doing…well, I don’t know yet! After that I’ll be at home for a while...
Cliffhangers...Grumble.
Doctor Who 1.8 “The Legend of Ruby Sunday” …and I won’t see the second half right away. Dang it on the timing of cliffhangers! I really thought Susan Triad...
Turbulence, AKA Why You Should Always Wear Your Seatbelt
On my fight back to Pasadena something bad happened. Suddenly our plane was tossed, entering about a 30 degree roll and sliding sideways. It was over very...
Nebula Winners Analysis Part One
Splitting this into two parts…one this week and one next! This week I’m going to talk about the three awards that are not for adult literary works - the Game...
Back from Pasadena
Highlights of the Nebula conference:The volunteer who came up and had a Barbie doll accept the Ray Bradbury award for the Barbie novel. Hollywood people...
The Sordid History of Digital Rights Management
So, anyone who has bought my ebooks might have noticed that they are DRM free…mostly. Sometimes a distributor will slap the technology on my books unwanted...
More Hugo Thoughts So Far
Recency bias is a thing. Turns out everything I’ve read this week has been rereads or excerpts, except for the most recent October Daye novel, which was...
Pasadena, Ho!
Barring some hideous flight problems (Good news, it’s not a Boeing) I’ll be in Pasadena when you read this, doing professional development. Con season will...