Hi, From Origins
Another queued post. This time I’m in Columbus hanging out and attending Origins Game Fair. The next issue of Last Girls Club drops today - please check it...
Bad Decisions and Dirty Fighting
Black Sails 3.9 Bad decisions: Underestimate Eleanor Guthrie, trust Eleanor Guthrie, execute pirates. Vane is dead. This is a bad thing for the English not...
There Are No Wild Horses - Equines, Domestication, and Living Free
If I make the statement “There are no wild horses,” people look at me like I grew an extra head…or possibly a set of horse ears. Then people go “What about?”...
A Left Turn to Finland
Review: North is the Night by Emily Rath I’m not hugely familiar with Finnish mythology and the Kalevala, although Rath does admit she takes a fair number of...
Nebulas Retrospective
My impressions of Kansas City: Barbecue, giant shuttlecocks (trust me, the dragon is not nanotech. That is a seriously large shuttlecock), a weird electicism...
Bad Decisions Abound
There really should be a ship in this show called the Bad Decision. Black Sails 3.6 Bad decisions: Rackham returning to Nassau to get pardons for himself and...
Who is Bigfoot? Is There a Truth Behind the Legend?
I’ve gone Bigfoot hunting. Honestly, lots of people have. It’s not, of course, about finding Bigfoot. It’s an excuse to go out into the woods and explore,...
Bloodsuckers Unite
Review: The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas Science fictional vampire stories are less common than the fantastic or supernatural kind. Although to be...
Hi From Kansas City
Okay, to be honest, I wrote this before I left because I don’t think I’ll be stopping for a moment on Friday…when I will be in Kansas City, Missouri. (The...
No Saints, Just Sinners
Black Sails 3.5 Today’s bad decision: You always walk away with the money. So what if you have to change your name. She’s somewhat smart. You aren’t,...
We Reap What We Sow
Review: Parable of rhe Sower by Octavia E. Butler This is where I confess that I haven’t read as much Butler as I should have. Parable of the Sower is a less...
Hi, I'm a Book Reviewer
Okay, I know. I review for this blog…but now I’m also going to be reviewing for Dirty Magick Magazine. This means I’m now specifically looking for urban...
Cliffhanger!
Doctor Who 2.7 “Wish World” Well, guess who’s back. I wasn’t one of the fans who guessed right on the identity of Mrs. Flood…who both is and is not the Rani....
City of Last Chances
Review: City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky Is this book a socialist manifesto? Is it cosmic horror? Is it a ghost story? It almost tries to be too...
At Balticon
Okay, this one is queued and by the time you see it I’ll be in Baltimore getting ready for the con. If you want to buy books, hit me up. I have a suitcase...
Sails and Songs
Black Sails 3.2 Bad decisions this week: 1. Underestimating Eleanor Guthrie. 2. Thinking Eleanor Guthrie is dead (which is also underestimating Eleanor...
Arr Pirates Speculative Fiction?
On November 14, 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson published The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys. You’ve probably never heard of it. Or rather you have, because it is...
Areas of Broken Reality
Review: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer This short novel makes no sense. Which is good, because it’s clearly not meant to…and there’s likely an unreliable...
Balticon Schedule and More
First of all, here’s my schedule for this year’s Balton: Friday 5:30pm - Reading with Randee Dawn Saturday 10am - Underutilized Bases for Magic Systems...
More Bad Decisions
Black Sails 2.8 Oh, well…how about some bad decisions. Okay, here’s the thing? Eleanor had to rescue Abigail, it wasn’t a bad decision even if it does seem...