Monthly Archives: December 2008
Dr Grordbort and the gadget love…
I know, I know. You’ve all seen the wonders of Doctor Grordbort’s Infallible Aether Oscillators – a series of wondrous and devastating devices designed and constructed by Greg Broadmore of Weta Workshops. Whether it’s the Victorious Mongoose, the Unnatural Selector, or the Goliathon 800 Moonhater Deathray, one of these is sure to call out to … Continue reading
Sleight on Waldrop
Graham Sleight has an interesting review of Howard Waldrop’s Other Worlds, Better Lives at Strange Horizons. I think he makes a lot of good points, though I liked “You Could Go Home Again” better than he did.
Books I’m reading
I guess an obvious companion set of posts to Books I’m looking forward to… is something on what I’m reading right now. This is the kind of thing I probably won’t stick with, but who knows? Right now I’m going through a phase of starting a lot of books and not finishing them. For some … Continue reading
The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny
A lot of books get announced, and a lot of them don’t come out, or come out late. I have no idea whether Threshold and Power & Light, respectively the first and second volumes in NESFA Press’s six-volume The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, will be out in February as promised. If they are, they’ll … Continue reading
Books I’m looking forward to… Part 1. January 2009
I’ve tried to do some regular features on this blog before and, to be honest, haven’t been too successful. I think it’s mostly because I have the concentration of your average gnat, when confronted with anything too challenging or difficult or that requires me to do pretty much anything regularly. Still, I’ve decided to have … Continue reading
