Blog Archive
August 2008
Sun Aug 31
Podcast Roundup 2: The Vintage Gamer; 2d6 Feet in a Random Direction
by Bruce Baugh
Sat Aug 30
Geek Brother, the Power
by Jim Henley
Fri Aug 29
Weekend Getaway: Alan Campbell
by John Klima
My love-hate relationship with fantasy
by Jo Walton
Thu Aug 28
Spellbinding Storytelling Patterns: Steven Brust’s Vlad Taltos series
by Jo Walton
Watchmen, Tintin, and
Drakmar?
by Dot Lin
Homeless Moon Review
by John Klima
Wed Aug 27
SF/F Book Cover Review: Soon I Will Be Invincible
by Pablo Defendini
Kevin Dart: Retro Fresh and Olympic Awesomeness
by Irene Gallo
Has Gonzo Gone Dodo?
by John Klima
Tue Aug 26
Eric Fortune and Shade
by Irene Gallo
Skynet, the Early Years: A Short Vaudeville Career
by Pablo Defendini
Jeremy Lassen Wants to Eat Your Brains
by John Klima
Shade
by Steven Gould
Flee, Puny Humans
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
New SF Ideas from Rudy Rucker
by Jo Walton
John Titor
by Pablo Defendini
Mon Aug 25
The King of the World, as Far as I Know
by Jim Henley
Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps is Available As a Free PDF
by David Moldawer
Gordon Van Gelder Asks Some Questions
by John Klima
Sun Aug 24
DJ Spooky v. Cory Doctorow: a CBLDF mashup! video
by Pablo Defendini
Sat Aug 23
SF Theatre: There Will Come Soft Rains
by Liz Gorinsky
Podcast Roundup 1: Have Games, Will Travel; The Instance
by Bruce Baugh
Podcast Roundup: Before the Beginning
by Bruce Baugh
Fri Aug 22
Interactivity
by Irene Gallo
Weekend Getaway: Behind the Wainscot 15
by John Klima
Spooky/Doctorow Preview
by Pablo Defendini
Thu Aug 21
Michael Whelan and Scott Fischer exhibit
by Irene Gallo
Playing With Your Emotions: The Literary Version
by John Scalzi
SF Scene: KGB Fantastic Fiction 8/21/08
by Liz Gorinsky
Judging a book by the cover: Steven Brust’s Vlad Taltos series
by Jo Walton
“The most awesome evil in the history of evil awesomeness”
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
In New York City tonight: Mashing up to defend your rights
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
RPGs + Computer Games: D&D Tiny Adventures
by Bruce Baugh
Wed Aug 20
Meet the Stars: Launch Pad 2008
by David D. Levine
The Weirdest Book in the World
by Jo Walton
Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear For My Possessing
by John Klima
The Cool Exec with the Heart of Steel
by Jim Henley
Rick Berry Demos
by Irene Gallo
Tue Aug 19
Eighties Rewind III
by Jim Henley
Mon Aug 18
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2008 Results
by Steven Padnick
Watchmen Beset by Legal Issues… Release in Doubt?
by Pablo Defendini
Eighties Rewind II
by Jim Henley
Eighties Rewind I
by Jim Henley
Sun Aug 17
Steampunk in the Hamptons
by Irene Gallo
Heterotopian Choices: Samuel R. Delany’s Triton
by Jo Walton
Sat Aug 16
Just Irresistible: Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle
by Jo Walton
Fri Aug 15
Weekend Getaway: Mary Robinette Kowal
by John Klima
Tor.com Exclusive Interview: Mary Robinette Kowal, Campbell Winner
by Liz Gorinsky
Manga and comics news
by Melissa Ann Singer
Reading Location
by John Klima
Late Evening, After the Hugos
by David Hartwell
Thu Aug 14
Happiness, Meaning and Significance: Karl Schroeder’s Lady of Mazes
by Jo Walton
On Immortality
by Pablo Defendini
Has Queen Amalasuntha Been Assassinated Yet? L. Sprague de Camp’s Lest Darkness Fall
by Jo Walton
We wuz hacked
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Prologue to Comments on Facebook Games
by Bruce Baugh
Tue Aug 12
I think we define “practical” differently….
by Melissa Ann Singer
Mon Aug 11
Clearsighted utopia: Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
by Jo Walton
The Dying Earth
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Sun Aug 10
Hugo Awards: The Details
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Subverting Cliche at Shared Worlds: The Scaly Ones Are Always Evil
by Jeff VanderMeer
Sat Aug 9
Hugo Award Winners
by Pablo Defendini
Howdy from the West Coast
by David Moldawer
Fri Aug 8
Man in the Mirror
by Steven Padnick
Worldcon: Conversation
by Jo Walton
Review: Monopoly, by Gamehouse
by Bruce Baugh
Thu Aug 7
Superhero Blogging Goes to the Dogs
by Jim Henley
FTLs, the Ten Dimensions, and Psychedelic Ramblings of Ersatz Journalists
by Pablo Defendini
SF/F Book Cover Review, Hugo Edition: The Last Colony
by Pablo Defendini
A visual dictionary of book terms
by Abigail Sutherland
Aliens and Power: C. J. Cherryh’s Atevi Books
by Jo Walton
Three-peat: biologist discovers third unbelievably tiny animal
by Melissa Ann Singer
From the Conversations
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
SF/F Book Cover Review, Hugo Edition: Rollback
by Pablo Defendini
World Fantasy Award finalists
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Wed Aug 6
Considering the Best Fanzine of 2008
by Alison Scott
The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away
by Cory Doctorow
SF/F Book Cover Review, Hugo Edition: Brasyl
by Pablo Defendini
Tue Aug 5
The Dystopic Earths of Heinlein’s Juveniles
by Jo Walton
They Were Behind That Rock. All 125,000 of Them
by John Scalzi
SF/F Book Cover Review, Hugo Edition: Halting State
by Pablo Defendini
Jon Foster Demo
by Irene Gallo
Old Flames Flare for Sweetie ‘n Me
by Joel Priddy
Mon Aug 4
I Have a Confession to Make
by John Klima
The Fermi Paradox: OK, where are they, then?
by Jo Walton
SF/F Book Cover Review, Hugo Edition: The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
by Pablo Defendini
The Soils of Mars
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Sun Aug 3
Greg Manchess: Hellboy Demo
by Irene Gallo
AbeBooks acquired by Amazon.com
by Pablo Defendini
Exclusive interview with Jim Mallon, Trace Beaulieu, and Joel Hodgson of Mystery Science Theatre 3000
by Liz Gorinsky
Sat Aug 2
A treat to re-read: Barbara Hambly’s Stranger at the Wedding
by Jo Walton
Fri Aug 1
Weekend Getaway: Benford and Roberson
by John Klima
The Montauk Monster–Just a Scout?
by David Moldawer
Because I Will Get Fired As The Science Blogger If I Don’t Note This
by John Scalzi
Confessions of a book addict
by Abigail Sutherland
Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation Gap
by John Klima
Separating SF and fantasy
by Jo Walton
Playing with matches
by Irene Gallo