Every few months I get invites from my friends to participate in this meme.  Perhaps you’ve seen it – it’s a list of 100 books (or series) attributed to various sources, and which of them have you read? It’s kind of arbritary, but one thing to note is that scifi/fantasy books are more or less [...]

Science/Space NASA Continues Investigating Cracks in Space Shuttle Discovery’s External Tank Ice Age Boneyard Find in Colorado Yields Treasures NASA Discovers Youngest Nearby Black Hole NASA Starts Thinking About Interstellar Travel Martian Sunset Thinking Like an Octopus CERN Creates and Traps Antimatter Scifi/Fantasy Review of Anthony Huso’s The Last Page John Scalzi gives us Misleading [...]

The dear people at the Office of Letters and Light have Nanowrimo pinned down to a tee.  Week One – an exciting week where word counts ramp up.  Week Two – where the momentum hits a brick wall.  Week Three – where you push past 25K and the story comes together.  So on and so [...]

Science/Space The McGurk Effect Bees Smarter than Super Computers Massive, Unknown Structure Discovered at Center of Milky Way Galaxy Rats Trained to Find Landminds, Disease Scifi/Fantasy Tor has a Steampunk Giveaway going thru 12/12 Just Kidding, Realms of Fantasy Not Dead, Under New Ownership io9′s Scifi/Fantasy Books of the Month Chapter Three of Michael A. [...]

Much earlier in the year, my husband and I decided it was time to move back to our home state.  We’d had a lovely time in Cali, but anyone who has ever been there knows that it’s ridiculously expensive and we were beginning to feel like we weren’t actually getting anywhere in life.  Sure, life’s [...]