Blog Archive
January 2009
Sat Jan 31
Battlestar Galactica Round Table: “The Oath”
by Pablo Defendini
1st Annual Global Game Jam NYC – Day 1 (1/30) Recap
by David Pucik
Fri Jan 30
On Updike
by Joe Haldeman
Around the Web: geek clock, a surprising street view, and chocolate Iron man
by Torie Atkinson
Social Life 2.0
by M.M. Buckner
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Eye of the World, Part 4
by Leigh Butler
Picking on Costumed Heroes: The Watchmen Portraits
by Genevieve Valentine
Thu Jan 29
“Give me back the Berlin Wall”: Ken MacLeod’s The Sky Road
by Jo Walton
Don’t Mind Me Giving the Trade Name
by Jason Henninger
For Every Flow There is an Ebb
by John Klima
Around the Web: zombie warnings, a blacked-out Mars rover, and why you shouldn’t be afraid of buttons
by Torie Atkinson
The Long-Awaited DVD Dissemination: The Middleman Coming to DVD
by Genevieve Valentine
Lost Round Table: Episode 3,”Jughead”
by Pablo Defendini
New Wallpapers: Manchess and Martiniere
by Pablo Defendini
Wed Jan 28
Mamatas In Translation
by John Klima
The Legacy of Holmes: Television
by Rajan Khanna
Convince Me!
by John Ottinger III
Around the Web: P&P (with zombies), gaming console histories, and Songsmith classics
by Torie Atkinson
Real world reading for fantasy writers
by Jo Walton
Addicted to Armageddon
by David Moody
New YA Fantasy: Bones of Faerie
by Megan Messinger
Near future and far future: Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin
by Jo Walton
Hater, Intro & Chapter 1 (Excerpt)
by David Moody
Tue Jan 27
Good Bye Realms of Fantasy
by John Klima
Jon Schindehette, an interview with Wizards of the Coast’s senior Dungeons and Dragons art director
by Irene Gallo
Around the Web: faux Doc Savage covers, R.I.P. Kim Manners, and no zombie child left behind (part deux)
by Torie Atkinson
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Eye of the World, Part 3
by Leigh Butler
Batman: Year 100 by Paul Pope
by Lou Anders
Cette Lettre Prend le Vengence
by J. Hennenger
Mon Jan 26
Geek Survival Guide: tips you may never need
by Mur Lafferty
Eleventh Hour: “Miracles”
by Genevieve Valentine
Around the Web: steampunk cylons, Coraline, and international fiction award news
by Torie Atkinson
Nobody Wins! (Congratulations to Neil Gaiman…)
by Bridget McGovern
Why do I pick up the books I do?
by Jo Walton
LotR re-read: Fellowship I.7, “In the House of Tom Bombadil”
by Kate Nepveu
Review: The Stepsister Scheme
by Ava Jarvis
Ancient Rockets: Frankenstein
by Kage Baker
Glory at Sea: a post-Katrina, postapocalyptic Orphean tale
by Irene Gallo
Marvel Excerpts: Runaways #6
by Marvel Comics
Marvel Excerpts: Ender’s Shadow #2
by Marvel Comics
Sun Jan 25
Self-Serve Books
by John Klima
Edward Binkley, artist interview
by Irene Gallo
Sat Jan 24
Battlestar Galactica Round Table: “A Disquiet Follows My Soul”
by Pablo Defendini
Fairytale Rape: Robin McKinley’s Deerskin
by Jo Walton
Fri Jan 23
“The Superman Exists, and He’s American”: Faux-vintage Watchmen Goodies
by Bridget McGovern
Post-Apocalyptic: Lost and Battlestar Galactica
by Rajan Khanna
New Coraline trailer
by Irene Gallo
Inkheart: A Little Less Action, Please
by Genevieve Valentine
Around the Web: superuseless powers, open beverages, and an interview with George Takei
by Torie Atkinson
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Eye of the World, Part 2
by Leigh Butler
The Azaming Snipermad!
by Jason Henninger
“Are You a Witch? Are You a Fairy? Are You the Wife of Michael Cleary?”
by Megan Messinger
It tolls for thee
by Elizabeth Bear
Thu Jan 22
Better luck next year (or decade)
by Dayle McClintock
An HD tour of the ISS
by Pablo Defendini
A Softer World 05
by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau
Around the Web: Star Trek Barbies, 1000 novels everyone must read, and a knitted brain
by Torie Atkinson
Lost Season 5 Premiere Round Table
by Pablo Defendini
My Perfect Anthology
by Jo Walton
Wed Jan 21
Are Comic Books Dying?
by Heather Massey
Lost season 5 premieres tonight, or, Is it tonight yet?!
by Theresa DeLucci
Fighting dragons and depression: Robin McKinley’s The Hero and the Crown
by Jo Walton
The New Frontiersman comes alive.
by Pablo Defendini
Marvel Excerpts: X-Factor #39 (Excerpt)
by Marvel Comics
Around the Web: LEGO inauguration, robot rock, and a bionic arm
by Torie Atkinson
Richard Hatch on Galactica Watercooler
by Pablo Defendini
Cowboy Funk
by Dayle McClintock
Bones of the Dragon, Chapter 1 (Excerpt)
by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Tue Jan 20
LotR re-read: Fellowship I.6, “The Old Forest”
by Kate Nepveu
SF Crowsnest adds “Sci-Fi Play”
by John Ottinger III
Around the Web: abandoned amusement parks, a very dangerous uterus, and LOTR-themed cakes
by Torie Atkinson
Wheel of Time Charity Auction
by Megan Messinger
Eleventh Hour: “H2O”
by Genevieve Valentine
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Eye of the World, Part 1
by Leigh Butler
CG Society’s Steampunk Challenge
by Irene Gallo
Ancient Rockets: Impossible Voyage
by Kage Baker
Build A Better World, And The World Will Come To Your Door
by Jon Evans
Mon Jan 19
It’s A Mixed-Up Muddled-Up Shook-Up World
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Edgar Allan Poe Hears Sweet Music Like the Dulcet Tones of Angels or Whatever
by Adam Rex
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Introductory Post
by Leigh Butler
Yes We Will
by Dan Goldman
Sun Jan 18
Edgar Allan Poe Should be Writing or Sleeping, Not Doing a Crossword Puzzle
by Adam Rex
A Seldon Crisis of epic proportions in the making.
by Pablo Defendini
Colonial Fantasy: Robin McKinley’s The Blue Sword
by Jo Walton
Post-Apocalyptic: The Past and the Future
by Rajan Khanna
A Good Year for the Robots
by Irene Gallo
Sat Jan 17
An Edgar Allan Poem
by Adam Rex
Battlestar Galactica Round Table: “Sometimes a Great Notion”
by Pablo Defendini
Fri Jan 16
Coincidence or Contrivance?
by Jane Lindskold
Around the Web: nuke it!, how to do a ninja wall flip, and a zombie Hello Kitty cake
by Torie Atkinson
Review: You Suck!
by Ava Jarvis
The countdown to midnight is a go: Watchmen legal issues resolved.
by Pablo Defendini
Thu Jan 15
Cornelia Funke and Brendan Fraser’s Inkheart Q&A
by Genevieve Valentine
We share everything.
by Elizabeth Bear
LotR re-read: Fellowship I.5, “A Conspiracy Unmasked”
by Kate Nepveu
Be Seeing You: Patrick McGoohan, 1928-2009
by Bridget McGovern
Around the Web: two losses for the geek world, a Klingon keyboard, and a periodic table of awesoments
by Torie Atkinson
Errata
by Jeff VanderMeer
Wed Jan 14
Will you be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered?
by Christopher Butcher
Battlestar Galactica returns with The Face of the Enemy webisodes
by Theresa DeLucci
Around the Web: Tiny Ninja Theater, Avengers news, and a free streaming RiffTrax!
by Torie Atkinson
Justin Gerard and The Hobbit
by Irene Gallo
A Year Without a Year’s Best?
by John Klima
Tue Jan 13
Brian Azzarello’s Lex Luthor: Man of Steel
by Lou Anders
Dave Seeley’s Luke Skywalker, a digital step-by-step
by Irene Gallo
Repo! The Genetic Opera – DVD Anatomy
by Genevieve Valentine
Crafting an “Audiobook Drama”: Jack Kincaid on the technical and creative challenges of producing Hoad’s Grim
by John Joseph Adams
Around the Web: a Watchmen update, super-predators, and a flying car
by Torie Atkinson
Dynamite alternate history: Jenny Davidson’s The Explosionist
by Jo Walton
Mon Jan 12
Prince of Persia: Fun, beautiful, and n00b-friendly
by David Pucik
A Missing Sign
by Jason Hnningr
Around the Web: imagined evolution, a crucifish, and 15 cool space projects
by Torie Atkinson
Ancient Rockets
by Kage Baker
Benjamin Button: Curiously Compelling
by Erika Nelson
Nothing is Weirder than the Truth, Part 2: Kleptoplasty
by Brian Slattery
James Jean “Kindling” opening
by Irene Gallo
Gibgoblins & Ice-Boxes: Behind the Scenes of the Production of Jack Kincaid’s Hoad’s Grim
by John Joseph Adams
Congratulations, Wesley Allsbrook!
by Irene Gallo
Sun Jan 11
Gene Wolfe Book Club
by John Klima
Sat Jan 10
Foundation and the iPhone
by Bruce Baugh
Fri Jan 9
“Draw Me” New Yorker
by Irene Gallo
Around the Web: some useful advice, a Wii crossbow, and a photographic Far Side reenactment
by Torie Atkinson
Great Uncle George’s Will
by Andi Watson
Sam Weber’s Thirteen Orphans
by Irene Gallo
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Going Bimonthly
by John Klima
A Puppet Who Can See the Strings: Watchmen Producer Speaks Out
by Genevieve Valentine
So you want to be a hero?
by Elizabeth Bear
Thu Jan 8
NYCC programming schedule goes live, or: I’m in way over my head.
by Pablo Defendini
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars
by Elizabeth Bear
Book pr0n lovers, rejoice.
by Pablo Defendini
Around the Web: RoboCop steals your fridge, an EEG Star Wars toy, and a Watchmen featurette
by Torie Atkinson
Wed Jan 7
Spaz, Mage of Coventry
by Jason Henninger
Watchmen kawaii!
by Torie Atkinson
Around the Web: Twilight spuds, space diapers, and cheap ebooks
by Torie Atkinson
Tue Jan 6
Watchmen trailer, in Japanese
by Irene Gallo
Hard Fantasy
by Jane Lindskold
The music has been liberated.
by Pablo Defendini
Companionable Science: Casting Eleven’s Companion
by Genevieve Valentine
Around the Web: LEGO steampunk, Orwell blogs 70 years later, and the top 50 movie special effects
by Torie Atkinson
When Earth is Gone
by Heather Massey
Outshine: More short short fiction
by Rajan Khanna
Mon Jan 5
SciFi Wire morphs into full site.
by Pablo Defendini
Around the Web: the Year of Astronomy, Andrew Stanton, and Evgeni Tomov
by Torie Atkinson
Announcement: JordanCon 2009!
by Jennifer Liang
LotR re-read: Fellowship I.4, “A Short Cut to Mushrooms”
by Kate Nepveu
Supermom Returns
by Erika Nelson
Nothing Is Weirder than the Truth, Part 1
by Brian Slattery
Sun Jan 4
Who Are These Fools, and Why Should You Care?
by Jon Evans
New News from Reseune: C.J. Cherryh’s Regenesis
by Jo Walton
Sat Jan 3
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your new Time Lord.
by Pablo Defendini
Fri Jan 2
Replacement Heroes
by Rajan Khanna
10 Hella Sexy Discoveries in The Outback Stars
by Heather Massey
Donald E. Westlake 1933-2008
by Jo Walton
Western Fantasy: Lois McMaster Bujold’s Sharing Knife books
by Jo Walton
Brian Azzarello’s Joker
by Lou Anders
From the conversations: magic systems in fiction
by Torie Atkinson
The 12 Days of Zombie Christmas, Day 12: Hangover
by Sean Bieri
Thu Jan 1
Your Guide to the Universes: The Risen Empire
by John Ottinger III
The 12 Days of Zombie Christmas, Day 11: Champagne
by Sean Bieri