last night's delightful quibblefest
Nothing could beat the hilarious Republican debates of yore. Remember how Allan Keyes perfected a loud kind of sneer-drawling that passed for human speech? Or how Gary Bauer, looking like Gepetto's...
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Sci-Fi/Fantasy Club: Brandon Sanderson's Words of Radiance
By my hasty count, 38-year-old Brandon Sanderson has published over 9000 pages of science fiction and fantasy since 2005. And that’s not counting his numerous short stories. Of those pages, I’ve read...
View ArticleRecent Favorites, Science Fiction & Fantasy Audiobooks
Lately, I've been on a science fiction and fantasy bender. The last time this happened, I was in college. In the intervening decades, my knowledge of and assumptions about the genre grew quaint and...
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Monday Murder Mystery: A Man Named "Er..." (or Why I Love Dick Francis)
Dick Francis with Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mother Dick Francis was once a champion jockey, winning more than 350 races. He was moments from triumph at the Grand National, riding for the Queen...
View ArticleEight Wonderfully Despicable Characters in Recent Science Fiction & Fantasy
This week, Tor's science fiction and fantasy blog listed "Five Books About Deeply-Flawed, Despicable People," books with protagonists who are "nasty, rotten, mean, horrid, and downright fascinating."...
View ArticleGreat Science Fiction Novels Coming Soon to Large & Small Screens
Several of my favorites works of science fiction are currently making their way to movie and television screens. I can't recall another time this was true of so many SF novels I love. I'll be gushing...
View ArticleSome Very Quick, Very Sarcastic Thoughts on the Early Republican Debate
So there they were on stage: Lindsey Graham, Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum, Carly Fiorina, Jim Gilmore, and George Pataki.
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