Blog Archive
August 2010
Tue Aug 31
The Great Debate: Bruce Wayne vs. Dick Grayson
by Annie Gala
Masks and moons: Melissa Scott’s The Kindly Ones
by Jo Walton
Queering SFF: Where’s the Polyamory?
by Lee Mandelo
True Blood episode review: “Fresh Blood”
by Theresa DeLucci
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Winter’s Heart, Part 14
by Leigh Butler
In a Kingly Way: Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings
by Richard Fife
Review: The Native Star by M.K. Hobson
by Alyx Dellamonica
It’s Here!
by Brandon Sanderson
Mon Aug 30
I Can Has Ray Gunz! Cat-People in Science Fiction
by Ryan Britt
Annapolis in space: Robert A. Heinlein’s Space Cadet
by Jo Walton
How many cyberwizards can dance on the head of a pin? (Being a review of Omnitopia Dawn, by Diane Duane)
by Elizabeth Bear
The Sir Julius Vogel Awards 2010
by Jo Walton
The Way of Kings Holds a Secret From The Wheel of Time
by Tor.com
Writing Hurricane Katrina
by Suzanne Johnson
The Reapers Are the Angels (Excerpt)
by Alden Bell
Sun Aug 29
OK, where do I start with that? W
by Jo Walton
Fri Aug 27
Not the Towers of Midnight Cover, But It’ll Do
by Stubby the Rocket
The Best Films You’ll Never See: Alternate Universe Movie Posters
by Bridget McGovern
Avatar Rewatch: “Avatar Day” (Episode 205)
by Matt London
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Winter’s Heart, Part 13
by Leigh Butler
A is for Artist: G
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon
“Why would I scan food with my screwdriver?”
by Stubby the Rocket
Frequency Rotation: The Locust, “Flash’s Theme”
by Jason Heller
30 Years of the Asteroid Belt in 3 Minutes
by Stubby the Rocket
Thu Aug 26
Tor Books Events at DragonCon: Wheel of Time, Sanderson, and more
by Tor.com
Review: Suzanne Collins’s Mockingjay
by Faye Bi
Power laces? Alright!
by Chris Greenland
Donato exhibits “Water: A Parallel Universe”
by Irene Gallo
An Interview with Filmmaker Arwen Curry
by the rejectionist
Weather War: Marjorie Bradley Kellogg’s Lear’s Daughters
by Jo Walton
Wed Aug 25
Prologue to The Towers of Midnight available for pre-order now!
by Tor.com
R.I.P. Satoshi Kon
by Jenny Rae Rappaport
The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas
by Lee Mandelo
Wednesday Comics Pull-List: Good Time Funny Books
by Annie Gala and Chris Greenland
An Interview with Nnedi Okorafor
by the rejectionist
The Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Gardens of the Moon, Chapters 14 and 15
by Bill Capossere and Amanda Rutter
An interview with colorist Dave Stewart
by Gregory Manchess
True Blood episode review: “I Smell a Rat”
by Theresa DeLucci
“I do not know which of us has written this interview”
by Jason Henninger
The Speed of Time
by Jay Lake
Tue Aug 24
GLaDOS Goes To College
by Bridget McGovern
Get ready for The Walking Dead: Official trailer and release date
by Stubby the Rocket
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Winter’s Heart, Part 12
by Leigh Butler
The Way of Kings Chapters 12 and 13 Up Now!
by Tor.com
An interview with Elizabeth Hand
by the rejectionist
Recognizing the Constitutional Rights of Zombies?
by Chris Greenland
Mon Aug 23
Hear the first chapter of Mockingjay
by Stubby the Rocket
Pencil Art
by Irene Gallo
Packing for Mars and laughing out loud
by Mark Graham
From a land, from a faraway place
by Patrick Garson
Angel Joins Buffy at Dark Horse Comics
by Lee Mandelo
Why Science Fiction?
by the rejectionist
After the Smoke Clears (Or, What To Read After Mockingjay)
by Thea James
Orbit Books’ Guide to Fantasy Art
by Bridget McGovern
Sun Aug 22
OK, where do I start with that? U and V.
by Jo Walton
Sat Aug 21
Fab Fighters: The Beatles Vs. Zombies
by Chris Greenland
Fri Aug 20
Star Wars Gets the Silent Treatment
by Stubby the Rocket
AIR MMORPG wants steampunk illustrators!
by GD Falksen
Audioslice: Mary Robinette Kowal’s Shades of Milk and Honey
by Liz Maverick
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Winter’s Heart, Part 11
by Leigh Butler
A is for Artist: F
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon
A Fondness for Antiques: The Future of Books According to Science Fiction
by Ryan Britt
What Comic-Con Means to Me: The Joss Whedon Experience
by Juliana Weiss-Roessler
Thu Aug 19
The Way of Kings, Chapters 12 and 13 (Excerpt)
by Brandon Sanderson
Reading at the Speed of Sound Podcast, Episode 4: Audiobook Review of Alan Goldsher’s Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion
by Susan Dunman
LotR re-read: Return of the King VI.1, “The Tower of Cirith Ungol”
by Kate Nepveu
Stickman, Prepare to Meet your Maker
by Stubby the Rocket
Phil Plait’s Bad Universe Expands
by Bridget McGovern
Avatar Rewatch: “The Swamp” (episode 204)
by Jordan Hamessley
Gulp or sip: How do you read?
by Jo Walton
The Ragged Man (Excerpt)
by Tom Lloyd
Wed Aug 18
Fantastical Birds: Artist Kathleen Lolley
by Lee Mandelo
Wednesday Comics Pull List: To All Things, Endings
by Annie Gala and Chris Greenland
And now video games tell history…
by GD Falksen
The Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Gardens of the Moon, Chapters 12 and 13
by Bill Capossere and Amanda Rutter
First Juvenile: Robert A. Heinlein’s Rocket Ship Galileo
by Jo Walton
George Sirois Introduces Excelsior, Sci-Fi’s Newest Hero
by Teresa Jusino
The Church of Heinlein (mildly) Reformed
by Sarah A. Hoyt
Tue Aug 17
When literary authors slum in genre
by Ethan Gilsdorf
Firefly Re-watch: Serenity, the second half
by Richard Fife
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Winter’s Heart, Part 10
by Leigh Butler
Robert A. Heinlein’s technological prophecies
by Mitch Wagner
The Zero Stone, with a cover by Jeff Jones
by Gregory Manchess
What Do Heinlein Women Want?
by Sarah A. Hoyt
Witches, Pirates, Vampires, and Vengeful Gods: Hellboy
by Alex Brown
Pulp adventure and nothing wrong with that: Robert Heinlein’s Methuselah’s Children
by Jo Walton
The Undead Robert Heinlein
by John Scalzi
Mon Aug 16
Tom Sawyer and the Undead and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
by Mark Graham
American, Like Me
by Sarah A. Hoyt
A brief thought about why Heinlein discussions frequently become acrimonious
by Jo Walton
True Blood episode review: “Everything is Broken”
by Theresa DeLucci
Heinlein Biographer Tells All
by Mitch Wagner
Queering SFF: Black Blade Blues by J.A. Pitts
by Lee Mandelo
The Customs Of His Tribe
by Sarah A. Hoyt
Monstrous Wildlife: Graboids
by Bridget McGovern
Sun Aug 15
OK, where do I start with that? T.
by Jo Walton
Sat Aug 14
Bioshock, now with 100% more steampunk
by GD Falksen
Some responses to the opening posts of the Heinlein discussion
by Pamela Dean
Fri Aug 13
Heinlein and The Saturday Evening Post
by John Scalzi
That Was Fun, But I’m Not in Lesbian With It. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
by Chris Greenland
Spec Fic Parenting: “That’s a Wizard’s Tower”
by Richard Fife
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Winter’s Heart, Part 9
by Leigh Butler
Heinlein’s contradictory views on race
by Mitch Wagner
A is for Artist: E
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon
From Comics to Cosmic, Part 10: It Will Always Be the Same Old Story
by Steve Englehart
Pariah (Excerpt)
by Bob Fingerman
Thu Aug 12
Growing up alien: Michael Coney’s Hello Summer, Goodbye
by Jo Walton
Funny, Hip and Nerdy: Regarding The Sheriff of Yrnameer by Michael Rubens
by Ryan Britt
Avatar Rewatch: “Return to Omashu” (episode 203)
by Matt London
Frequency Rotation: Sigue Sigue Sputnik, “21st Century Boy”
by Jason Heller
Heinlein: Forward-looking diversity advocate or sexist bigot? Yes
by Mitch Wagner
True Blood episode review: “Night on the Sun”
by Theresa DeLucci
The right kind of girl
by Jo Walton
Cowboy Bebop Re-watch: “Ganymede Elegy”
by Madeline Ashby
Through a backward telescope: Heinlein’s context
by Charles Stross
Patterson Heinlein biography: Not to be trusted on details
by Jo Walton
From Comics to Cosmic, Part 9: Quit Cramming Concepts Into Comic Movies!
by Steve Englehart
Wed Aug 11
Tomorrow Through the Past
by Pamela Dean
Wednesday Comics Pull-List: Old Battles and Déjà Vu
by Annie Gala and Chris Greenland
Coming Home
by Sarah A. Hoyt
Way of Kings ARC and audio giveaway on Facebook
by Tor.com
Heinlein: Strangely Human
by John Scalzi
The Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Gardens of the Moon, Chapters 10 and 11
by Bill Capossere and Amanda Rutter
“Out far, and onward yet!” Heinlein’s future history stories of the thirties and forties
by Jo Walton
From Comics to Cosmic, Part 8: In Which Captain America Loses His Freedom
by Steve Englehart
Robert A. Heinlein: A real-life Forrest Gump
by Mitch Wagner
Robert A. Heinlein: The Tor.com Blog Symposium
by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model
by Charlie Jane Anders
Tue Aug 10
Newsflash! Torchwood: The New World
by Alex Brown
Firefly Re-watch: Serenity, the first half
by Richard Fife
Knife of Dreams ebook cover by Michael Komarck
by Irene Gallo
From Comics to Cosmic, Part 7: Working in the Industry, Then and Now
by Steve Englehart
Behold, The 2010 Social Networking Map
by Bridget McGovern
Mon Aug 9
Robert Abbett and A Princess of Mars
by Gregory Manchess
Big Think Rolls Out 31 Days of Dangerous Ideas
by Chris Greenland
Aliens, Steppe Nomads, and just the right amount of romance: Kate Elliott’s Jaran
by Jo Walton
The Eisner Awards: And the Eisner Goes to…
by Lee Mandelo
Smexy Zombies and Runaway Zeppelins: The Loving Dead
by Alex Brown
From Comics to Cosmic, Part 6: The Secret Marvel/DC Crossover Event
by Steve Englehart
More Stories from the Twilight Zone
by Mark Graham
Sun Aug 8
OK, where do I start with that? S.
by Jo Walton
Fri Aug 6
Editorial Roundtable: The Roots of Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy
by Melissa Ann Singer
Congratulations to the 2010 Chesley Award Winners!
by Irene Gallo
Provencal Fantasy: Guy Gavriel Kay’s A Song for Arbonne
by Jo Walton
Queering SFF: An Interview with Editor Steve Berman
by Lee Mandelo
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Winter’s Heart, Part 8
by Leigh Butler
A is for Artist: D
by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon
From Comics to Cosmic, Part 5: Stan Lee and Thor By Flashlight
by Steve Englehart
She Loves Hot Reads Paranormal Book Giveaway!
by Eileen Rothschild
One children’s book without so much squid in it…being a review of Greg van Eekhout’s Kid Vs. Squid
by Elizabeth Bear
Thu Aug 5
Reread All 40 Books in the Oz Series
by Tor.com
Chicago Museum of Science is Looking for a Subletter
by Chris Greenland
Real world engineering: Nevil Shute’s No Highway
by Jo Walton
I Believe I Can Fly
by Stubby the Rocket
Frequency Rotation: Isis, “Hall of the Dead”
by Jason Heller
Star Trek Re-Watch Season 2 Wrap-Up
by Eugene Myers and Torie Atkinson
From Comics to Cosmic, Part 4: Comics Make You a Better Writer Faster Than Anything Else
by Steve Englehart
Geek Fashion: Molly Crabapple Goes Dirtee Hollywood
by Teresa Jusino
Queering SFF: Wilde Stories 2010 edited by Steve Berman
by Lee Mandelo
Divided by Infinity
by Robert Charles Wilson
Wed Aug 4
Kiss the fleeting stead of death
by Jason Henninger
“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” Thinking about Inception
by Mitch Wagner
Wednesday Comics Pull-List: Torchwood, Magnus, and a Surprising Amount of Baltimore
by Annie Gala and Chris Greenland
The best spacestation novel not written by Cherryh: Walter Jon Williams’ Angel Station
by Jo Walton
The Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Gardens of the Moon, Chapters 8 and 9
by Amanda Rutter and Bill Capossere
From Comics to Cosmic, Part 3: Pterodactyls Play Ptheir Part
by Steve Englehart
Urban Fantasy Recommendations
by Carrie Vaughn
China Miéville Takes Comic Con
by Alex Brown
What Makes a River
by Deborah Coates
Tue Aug 3
Prince of Storms (Excerpt)
by Kay Kenyon
What happened to genres?
by
Firefly Re-watch: Serenity: Those Left Behind Part 3
by Richard Fife
Magnus, Robot Fighter 4000 A.D.
by Gregory Manchess
Young Adult Paranormal Book Giveaway, Courtesy of WordsnStuff.net!
by Eileen Rothschild
The Wheel of Time Re-read: Winter’s Heart, Part 7
by Leigh Butler
The Way of Kings Chapters 9 and 11 Up Now!
by Tor.com
From Comics to Cosmic, Part 2: Missed Connections
by Steve Englehart
True Blood “Hitting the Ground” episode review
by Theresa DeLucci
Suppose you are contemplating an island: Jill Paton Walsh’s Knowledge of Angels
by Jo Walton
Let the Right One In, Eli in my psyche
by Greg Ruth
Mon Aug 2
Review: Masked
by Jason Henninger
TV Vampires: The Broody and the Badass
by Juliana Weiss-Roessler
Way of Kings Advance Reading Copy Giveaway
by Megan Messinger
I am a Reasonably Happy Man: The Trouble with Trouble on Triton
by Sean Grattan
From Comics to Cosmic, Part 1: It Begins with Murder
by Steve Englehart
An Interview with Laura Anne Gilman
by Ron Hogan
Towers of Midnight Prediction Open Thread
by Tor.com
Doctor Who S5 Finale: “The Pandorica Opens”/”The Big Bang”
by Teresa Jusino
Manga Farming
by Irene Gallo
Sun Aug 1
There Can Be Only Oh. Oops. Never Mind.
by Doranna Durgin
OK, where do I start with this? R.
by Jo Walton