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The Tor.com Reader’s Poll Results Giveaway! "An excellent list that I wouldn't mind getting copies of all." on The Tor.com Reader’s Poll Results Giveaway! at Tue Mar 01, 2011 12:36pm
Best SFF Novels of the Decade Readers Poll "My picks: Old Man's War - John Scalzi Passage - Connie Willis The Scar - China Mieville Anathem..." on Best SFF Novels of the Decade Readers Poll at Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:30pm
"I've always felt that this was one book that while Heinlein completely got the details of technological..." on Incredibly readable: Robert Heinlein’s The Door Into Summer at Wed Feb 10, 2010 18:35pm
Steampunk Month Giveaway: Jeweled Spider Brooch "Now that's a spider even my wife (who has insect-phobia, and large-animal phobia, and ...) couldn't object..." on Steampunk Month Giveaway: Jeweled Spider Brooch at Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:03pm
Steampunk Month Giveaway: Kage Baker’s <em>The Women of Nell Gwynne’s</em> "Having read all her other Company books, and enjoyed them all, it would be real nice to have a shiny..." on Steampunk Month Giveaway: Kage Baker’s The Women of Nell Gwynne’s at Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:55am
"I read this a few years ago, so my recollection of my reactions may be a little hazy, but I found the..." on The future of the Commonwealth: Nevil Shute's In the Wet at Thu Oct 22, 2009 15:58pm
Steampunk Month Giveaway: James Blaylock’s <em>The Ebb Tide</em> "I need more steam-powered clockwork. My home is not cluttered up enough!" on Steampunk Month Giveaway: James Blaylock’s The Ebb Tide at Wed Oct 21, 2009 17:49pm
Steampunk Month Giveaway: Jeweled Windup Bird Ring "Is this the ring that will let me rule all of Victorian England? What strange powers does it have, I..." on Steampunk Month Giveaway: Jeweled Windup Bird Ring at Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:04pm
"Let's add a few more that should be part of every sf fan's background: Limbo by Bernard Wolfe - Post..." on Post-Apocalyptic: The Past and the Future at Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:53am
"Against the Fall of Night was originally published in 1948, City and the Stars in 1956. The latter did..." on The Poetry of Deep Time: Arthur C. Clarke’s Against the Fall of Night at Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:14am
"A nice overview of the entire series to date. I've read them all, pretty much as they were published,..." on Spellbinding Storytelling Patterns: Steven Brust’s Vlad Taltos series at Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:05am
"Actually, touching my emotions is the marker I use to separate the merely good from the great. When a..." on Playing With Your Emotions: The Literary Version at Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:27am
"A great description of a rather intense workshop. Wish I could have been there! Just a small correction:..." on Meet the Stars: Launch Pad 2008 at Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:58am
"andyl: Actually, I think that not having to vote on all categories or even all nominees in one category..." on The Dying Earth at Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:12pm
"Orchard: A good chunk of this is the fractured market for publishing today. Used to be 90% of all..." on The Dying Earth at Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:14am
"andyl@121: I think a fair amount of the reason why only a small portion of Worldcon members vote on..." on The Dying Earth at Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:41am
"Well, a couple of data points: Le Guin was 39 when she published the first of the Earthsea novels, Heinlein..." on The Dying Earth at Tue Aug 12, 2008 14:01pm
"The first Worldcon I bought a supporting membership for was the 1965 London, which if I remember right..." on The Dying Earth at Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:26am
"For Heinlein's stories to work, he needed to have his protagonists feel dissatisfied with the way things..." on The Dystopic Earths of Heinlein’s Juveniles at Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:34am
"And then, perhaps, we are simply not looking in the right place or via the right medium. Why are we so..." on The Fermi Paradox: OK, where are they, then? at Tue Aug 05, 2008 13:17pm
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