Pyr, the relatively new and top-notch SF imprint of Prometheus Books, has launched its own blog called Pyr-o-mania. Joe Haldeman’s Camouflage woon the Nebula Award for best novel. And while I don’t usually follow this award, Serenity won for best script. Erica Wagner has a nice concise piece in Sunday’s UK Times on the purpose […]
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The website of the No on E Committee is up and running. Take some time to peruse it. Particularly informative is the page that allows you to decode the amendment. It has hyperlinks for various language in J.A.I.L. that lead you to analysis, explanations and ramificatins. The site also mentions several items that are on […] If there’s one thing more difficult than making history interesting to a general audience, it’s writing a history of scientific achievement. While Deborah Cadbury’s Space Race is not a perfect work, it does a worthy job of telling the history of the race between the United States and the Soviet Union to achieve supremacy in […] As the blog shows, I am getting caught up on my book reviews. In fact, the last two were also being picked up by advance.net. Anyway, with at least two more on the front burner, here’s some accumulated material for the weekend. First a couple minor rhetorical rants: What part of the word FICTION is […] Sometimes a title says it all. Mike Sharpe’s Requiem for New Orleans is a lament for a New Orleans that no longer exists. At the same time, the title reflects the stylistic approach Sharpe takes to the subject. The work is intended to emulate a symphony based on the concept of a requiem mass. Sharpe […] |
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