I've been meaning to post more on Dragonlance for a while, but I haven't had the time (see below post if you want to know why.) However, I did get through the Chronicles, and I have a fair number of thoughts on the series:

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I'll have another Dragonlance post up soon, probably, but for now, I just wanted to announce (a little belatedly):

I am officially engaged! Last weekend, Bridget temporarily lost her mind and agreed to marry me.

That is all.

Tired of Dragonlance posts yet ( Read more... )

Note: The Silvanesti dream sequence in Dragons of Winter Night does not make any more sense when I'm 29 than it did when I was 14. That is all.

As fun as the Dragonlance Chronicles are, I have to admit, reading them with a more logical eye more than 15 years after I first read them, I have to say: there are world-building holes in this series you could fit a bus through ( Read more... )

In my ongoing attempt to prove that I may or may not exist and actually update this thing at least once every millennium, here's another edition of my random thoughts ( Read more... )

Mining the collective intelligence of LJ: Does anyone know of any good books on pre-colonial African history? I'm looking for a particular emphasis on Western and Southern Africa.

The Book of The Thousand Nights and One Night. Translated by Mardrus & Mathers. Unabridged.

I have the greatest girlfriend ever.

*waves* Happy one-year anniversary, Bridget!

I'm feeling thoughtful today, so here's some random rantings:

Hypothesis: Science fiction and fantasy are not genres as traditionally defined.

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Alas, Paterson Joseph will not be the new Doctor. I was really rather excited there for a while - I loved Joseph as the Marquis de Carabas in Neverwhere, and I think he really could make an interesting Doctor (while at the same time, you know, giving us a Doctor who's not a white man.)

But no, they've chosen someone else. ( Read more... )