'Steaming like raw meat dropped onto a hot stove'

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Something I found at a thrift store that I thought you might enjoy..

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I'm going to preface this post with an old meme, mainly because I spent the entire book thinking about it.


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Speaking ill of the dead
Elisabeth Sladen: the autobiography

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The last word on the last words of Christopher Hitchens
Mortality keeps atheism's faith, but falters in the delivery


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Return to Middle Earth: The Hobbit

Believe it or not, Peter Jackson's latest film is only indirectly responsible for my decision to re-read The Hobbit (again). The proximal cause was Tor.com's (no-doubt entirely commercial) decision to ask the redoubtable Kate Nepveu to lead a weekly, chapter-by-chapter "re-read" of the novel in conjunction with ( Read more... )

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Awards among the shallows:

Hugos considered as dyptich of semi-precious novels

Vernor Vinge and why the golden age of science fiction is still twelve


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The girls, the monster and the Artifact!

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These are the books I read in the past two months. My thoughts on them can be found at bookfrogVery Hard Choices, Spider Robinson ( Read more... )