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THE VOYAGE OF THE SPACE BEAGLE by A.E. van Vogt
It's been a while since I bored into a book like a hopped-up literary woodpecker, so here's some brain spillage originally written last year and never posted.
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Bullet Points of Interest
- I am not playing Diablo III. I don't have much time for a new game at the moment (which is also why I'm not playing The Old Republic), but I'm pretty sure I could have found some intermittent pockets of time... if not for the fact that the game's DRM requires constant online connection, even for solitaire play, making it vulnerable not only to the ( Read more... )
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Flat Box Furniture From Big Box Stores
A little free verse ditty composed the last time I brought home an endtable requiring "minimal assembly." Dusted off for Cherie Priest, and for everyone who brings their furniture home in flat, heavy boxes.
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TO THE MAN WHO DESIGNED THE TABLE I JUST ASSEMBLEDOh, it's death for you, my boy ( Read more... ) -
What We Talk About When We Talk About Bear (II)
So here I am in the lovely northeast, staying with the lovely girlfriend for a few weeks. Duty and Anxiety have collaborated on a performance piece called "Let's Fuck Up Scott's Desire to Post to His LJ," but tonight I'm shuffling those two anthropomorphized concepts off the stage and getting posty with it ( Read more... ) -
Jim Hines' Rape Crisis Center Fundraiser: The Book of Bear and Lynch
Jim Hines is doing his annual rape crisis centers fundraiser all month; as an incentive for donations to suitable organisations or crisis centers, he's offering a slate of neat prizes, raffle-fashion. All the details can be found in the post linked above ( Read more... ) -
Computer Blew
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Dear Epic Fantasy of the Very Late 1980s...
Look. This is hard for both of us. Let's not make it any harder than it needs to be. We had some fun, didn't we, back around 1998? You were fresh to me. I was fresh to the world of letters. I'd never seen anything like you, you with your thousands upon thousands of pages, you great thumping quadrilateral of a book. You citadel of wood pulp. You ( Read more... ) -
RANGE OF GHOSTS (I): What We Talk About When We Talk About Bear
So, in case my incessant noise hadn't already made it clear, today was release day for Elizabeth Bear's brand-shiny-new epic fantasy, Range of Ghosts.
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Locke Lamora Read-Along Bonus #4: YOU SUCK, LYNCH
"Don't fall for all the commerical hype purporting that this book is the new fantasy. The only fantasy was in the author's head and he was not able to communicate that well at all. Which is too bad because some of the images are stark and clear and riveting and drew me deeper and deeper into the book.....against my will. The book is arrogant, ( Read more... ) -
The Ballad of Captain Placeholder
Stuff's coming, kids, have no fear. I desperately needed sleep last night, and today I got up and crossed the state line to help move six million tons of stuff at The Source, the greatest comics and games store for hundreds of miles in any direction. It was heartening to see so many geek volunteers out in force to heave stuff around. I came home ( Read more... )