Failing again. Failing better.
I may be ahead of the curve on some things (See, e.g., my review of REDSHIRTS, coming out June 5), but I am also way behind on some things. For example, I am only now reading George R.R. Martin’s Tales of Dunk and Egg. I also just finished the 2007 book THE NAME OF THE…
Big-Hearted Characters Think and Joke their Way through a Broken Reality REDSHIRTS, the latest book by John Scalzi (blog, Twitter) doesn’t come out until June 5, but fans of Star Trek, sci fi, comedy, and Scalzi’s nerdy snark should pre-order the book now. One of the classic Star Trek tropes was that when an away…
Over Memorial Day weekend, I travelled to Boston for my sister’s wedding. Everything went off without a hitch. It was fun, beautiful, and it really incorporated some elements that were unique to the couple, namely a Neil Gaiman poem, a Battlestar Galactica reference, and performances by the members of the groom’s a cappella group. Good…
So today I have two deadlines: one real, one self-imposed. So I’ll give y’all some more long reads. The first is an interview of Paolo Bacigalupi. If you haven’t read THE WIND UP GIRL, go out and do it right now. Within a few pages, you will realize just why it won a lot of…
This weekend I will travel to Boston for my sister’s wedding. Accordingly, I’m trying to meet all my deadlines earlier than possible, so I don’t have a lot of time for posting. Instead, I’ll give you a couple of long-ish articles to read. First, here’s an interview with Jon Spaihts, the writer of “Prometheus.” In…