Blog Archive
June 2009
Tue Jun 30
Heart of Hush
by Lou Anders
Judging a book by its cover
by Brian James
Mark of the Demon…in 60 Seconds
by John Joseph Adams
Time is Running Out!
by John Klima
Lord of the Ringlings
by Adam McCauley
Mon Jun 29
Web Round-Up, Now With International Flavor
by Megan Messinger
Ancient Rockets: Oz Road Trip, Day 2
by Kage Baker
Not so urban fantasy: Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s The Silent Strength of Stones
by Jo Walton
Doomed Summer Pilots: Virtuality
by Genevieve Valentine
Bringing the House Down: Norse Code
by Ava Jarvis
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 14
by Leigh Butler
What music reminds you of science fiction or fantasy?
by John Ottinger III
Sun Jun 28
The toy tie-in
by Irene Gallo
Santa Olivia…in 60 Seconds
by John Joseph Adams
Sat Jun 27
Weekend Getaway: Pratt & Valente
by John Klima
Fri Jun 26
Characters and cryptography: Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon
by Jo Walton
Flinx Transcendent…in 60 Seconds
by John Joseph Adams
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 13
by Leigh Butler
Michael Jackson: 1958-2009
by Pablo Defendini
LotR re-read: Two Towers III.3, “The Uruk-hai”
by Kate Nepveu
Thu Jun 25
Valley of the Dead…in 60 Seconds
by John Joseph Adams
Star Trek Re-watch: “This Side of Paradise”
by Torie Atkinson and Eugene Myers
Web Round-Up: Contests, Giveaways and Freebies Edition
by Megan Messinger
The Zen of Professor Nimbus: Nimbus in the Firmament
by Michael Sloan
Wed Jun 24
The Transformers Live-Action Movies, as they should have been.
by Pablo Defendini
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 12
by Leigh Butler
Bestial…in 60 Seconds
by John Joseph Adams
The Cheap Scare Scenario
by Brian James
Writers Workshop of Horror: interview with editor Michael Knost
by Jason Sizemore
Oliver Who? (A Mathom from the Time Closet)
by Robert Charles Wilson
Tue Jun 23
Star Trek Re-watch: “A Taste of Armageddon”
by Eugene Myers and Torie Atkinson
John Harwood’s The Séance
by Justin Howe
Crafting the Psalms of Isaak: An Interview with Ken Scholes
by Jason Henninger
To War, and Not Lightly: Kings, “The Sabbath Queen”
by Genevieve Valentine
More dimensions than you’d expect; Samuel Delany’s Babel 17
by Jo Walton
The House That George Built
by Harry Turtledove
Mon Jun 22
Concept art from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland
by Irene Gallo
Web Round-Up
by Megan Messinger
War of the Words Goes Global
by Pablo Defendini
Telling Stories With Character
by Jay Lake
The Wonderful World of Writing for Teens
by Brian James
Ancient Rockets: Oz Road Trip, Day 1
by Kage Baker
Catching Up With Amber Benson
by geoffrey h goodwin
LotR re-read: Two Towers III.2, “The Riders of Rohan”
by Kate Nepveu
A funny book with a lot of death in it: Iain Banks’s The Crow Road
by Jo Walton
Sun Jun 21
KGB Fantastic Fiction 6/17/09 Post-apocalyptic Barter Skills
by Liz Gorinsky
The Greatest Stories Never Told
by Brian James
Sat Jun 20
Patient Zero…in 60 Seconds
by John Joseph Adams
Fri Jun 19
Shared Worlds and real life fantastical cities
by Matt Staggs
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 11
by Leigh Butler
Packing books for a trip
by Jo Walton
Genre Police
by Brian James
“I’m thirteen, I’m a girl, and I like fantasy and some science fiction. What should I be reading?”
by Melissa Ann Singer
“You are my miracle”: True Blood’s second season premiere
by Nina Lourie
A Softer World 10
by Emily Horne and Joey Comeau
Thu Jun 18
Field Study (An Author In Search of Zombies)
by Brian James
Star Trek Re-watch: “Space Seed”
by Torie Atkinson and Eugene Myers
Coraline: Stories From Inside a Piano
by Megan Messinger
Stretching my legs
by Jay Lake
Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris
by Nina Lourie
Starman Jones, or how Robert A. Heinlein did plot on a good day
by Jo Walton
Don’t Panic: Magazine Closings
by John Klima
The Redemption of Professor Nimbus Excerpt #2
by Michael Sloan
Wed Jun 17
Clocks and stars and magic: Melissa Scott and Lisa A, Barnett’s Point of Hopes
by Jo Walton
Review: Demon’s Lexicon
by Nina Lourie
Infamous: Sparking with Power and Fun
by David Pucik
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 10
by Leigh Butler
The First Asian American ComiCon (AACC)
by Torie Atkinson
Announcing the Tor.com Store!
by Pablo Defendini
Happy Birthday, Michael Mitchell
by Joanna Estep
Tue Jun 16
Star Trek Re-watch: “The Return of the Archons”
by Eugene Myers and Torie Atkinson
Web Round-Up: Contests, Giveaways and Freebies Edition
by Megan Messinger
Review: Halo Uprising
by Rajan Khanna
Play it Again, Sam: Moon
by Genevieve Valentine
Jacqueline Carey’s Santa Olivia
by Mark Graham
India’s superheroes: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
by Jo Walton
Julian Comstock, Chapters 2 and 3
by Robert Charles Wilson
Mon Jun 15
Jumping Off the Cliff, Looking for Water on the Way Down
by Jay Lake
Web Round-Up
by Megan Messinger
Words Don’t Settle Debt: Kings, “Brotherhood”
by Genevieve Valentine
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 9
by Leigh Butler
Review: Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
by Matt London
Ancient Rockets: Nosferatu
by Kage Baker
Darkness Calls (Excerpt)
by Marjorie Liu
Remembering Stan Winston
by geoffrey h goodwin
Marvel Excerpts: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz #7
by Marvel Comics
Sun Jun 14
The worst book I love: Robert Heinlein’s Friday
by Jo Walton
Fri Jun 12
They are not welcome: IGN and District 9’s sexist contest
by Torie Atkinson
LotR re-read: Two Towers III.1, “The Departure of Boromir”
by Kate Nepveu
The Thrill of the Shelf
by Jay Lake
The other woman: Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride
by Jo Walton
Bob Eggleton: Free Wallpapers
by Irene Gallo
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 8
by Leigh Butler
Sarah Waters vs. Forbidden Planet: A Ghost Story
by Robert Charles Wilson
Thu Jun 11
The Repossession Mambo…in 60 Seconds
by John Joseph Adams
Basic Geek Survival – Zombie 101
by Zachary Ricks
Why I am Over the Moon about Duncan Jones
by Lou Anders
The Net of a Million Lies: Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep
by Jo Walton
Star Trek Re-watch: “Court Martial”
by Torie Atkinson and Eugene Myers
Shaun Tan: Free Wallpapers
by Irene Gallo
The Zen of Professor Nimbus: The Ubiquity of Chinese Takeout
by Michael Sloan
Wed Jun 10
Maurice Sendak: 81 years of wild rumpusing.
by Irene Gallo
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 7
by Leigh Butler
Web Round-Up: Contests, Giveaways, & Freebies Edition
by Megan Messinger
Supernatural Thriller Personal Effects: Dark Art launches
by Mur Lafferty
Licensed to sell weasels and jade earrings: The short stories of Lord Dunsany
by Jo Walton
John Picacio: Free Wallpaper
by Irene Gallo
Good News, Everyone!
by Dayle McClintock
Ten Movies to Watch Instead of Star Trek
by Genevieve Valentine
Green (Excerpt)
by Jay Lake
Tue Jun 9
Star Trek Re-watch: “Tomorrow is Yesterday”
by Eugene Myers and Torie Atkinson
This is Not a Game…in 60 Seconds
by John Joseph Adams
The Success Trap
by Jay Lake
Review: Tides from the New Worlds
by Ava Jarvis
Dan Dos Santos: Free Wallpaper
by Irene Gallo
The City Quiet as Death
by Steven Utley and Michael Bishop
Mon Jun 8
Web Round-Up
by Megan Messinger
Dean Koontz’s Relentless
by Mark Graham
The Warded Man…in 60 Seconds
by John Joseph Adams
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 6
by Leigh Butler
Donato: Free wallpapers from a Hugo-Nominated Artist
by Irene Gallo
Ancient Rockets: Prince Achmed
by Kage Baker
Gender and glaciers: Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness
by Jo Walton
Marvel Excerpts: X-Factor #44
by Marvel Comics
Marvel Excerpts: Ender’s Game: Recruiting Valentine #1
by Marvel Comics
Sun Jun 7
Undead on Arrival…in 60 Seconds
by John Joseph Adams
Being clever with mythology: John James’s Votan and Not For All the Gold in Ireland
by Jo Walton
Sat Jun 6
MoCCA Art Festival 2009
by Liz Gorinsky
Fri Jun 5
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 5
by Leigh Butler
Tales of Vesperia: The best next-gen JRPG out there
by Torie Atkinson
The Ruins of Tomorrowland
by Robert Charles Wilson
Thu Jun 4
Star Trek Re-watch: “Arena”
by Torie Atkinson and Eugene Myers
Lise Myhre signing this weekend
by Pablo Defendini
Faster Than Light at any speed
by Jo Walton
Mathoms from the Time Closet (1)
by Robert Charles Wilson
Interview: Kevin J. Anderson
by John Ottinger III
The Dreaded Question
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon
Wed Jun 3
Something old, something new?
by Jo Walton
LotR re-read: Fellowship movie re-watch
by Kate Nepveu
David Eddings (1931-2009), In Memoriam
by Bruce Baugh
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 4
by Leigh Butler
Where’s Waldo?: A Movie News Roundup (Rebooted)
by Genevieve Valentine
Advertising dystopia: Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants
by Jo Walton
Dungeon Crawls to Hyperspace – Paul S. Kemp Interview
by Jay Tomio
Review: Strange Angels
by Matt London
The Redemption of Professor Nimbus Excerpt #1
by Michael Sloan
Tue Jun 2
Star Trek Re-watch: “The Squire of Gothos”
by Eugene Myers and Torie Atkinson
The addiction of time travel: Daphne Du Maurier’s The House on the Strand
by Jo Walton
Review: New Mutants #2
by Greg van Eekhout
Ten Fiction Editors Talk Shop in Clarkesworld Magazine
by Pablo Defendini
What books haven’t you read?
by Torie Atkinson
Julian Comstock, Chapters 1 and 2 (Excerpt)
by Robert Charles Wilson
Mon Jun 1
You may not know it, but you want to read this: Francis Spufford’s Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin
by Jo Walton
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 3
by Leigh Butler
Free Audiobook! Sun of Suns, by Karl Schroeder
by Pablo Defendini
Ancient Rockets: Schatten
by Kage Baker
Mapping The City & The City: an interview with China Miéville
by Theresa DeLucci
I’m In Your Media, Divorcing Your Intent
by Bruce Baugh