So last week we watched “Contact“, the film based on the book by the same name, written by some guy named Carl Sagan.

So last week we watched “Contact“, the film based on the book by the same name, written by some guy named Carl Sagan.

So this week I’m reading Mean Spirit, by Will Kingdom Phil Rickman, in which a famous medium, Persephone Callard (yes, named after that Persephone) is having a little trouble pursuing her craft, due to (1) being stalked by unknown persons seeking to do her physical harm and (2) having a particularly nasty spirit following her around and taking over the session every time she tries to communicate with other spirits.

So this week I am, somewhat belatedly, reading Mystic River, by Dennis Lehane, in which a childhood trauma in the 70s leads to a tragic murder in the 00s. Or at least, that’s how it looks so far …

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So this week I’m reading Dauntless, book one of “The Lost Fleet” series, by Jack Campbell.

Continue reading “Teaser Tuesday 10/4/2016: “The Lost Fleet – Dauntless””
So this week (and last week, and the week before), I’ve been reading Gardens of the Moon, AKA book one of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson.

Continue reading “Teaser Tuesday 9/27/2016: “Gardens of the Moon””
So seeing as it’s been quite a while since I reached into my vast pile of rejection (and occasional acceptance) letters, and we haven’t had many amusing movie-related interactions* here lately, I thought it might be time to dredge up an ancient rejection letter. Random.org said I should choose this one, from Science Fiction Age:
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See? I told you it was going to take a few weeks to get through this one …

Continue reading “Teaser Tuesday 9/13/2016: (Still) “Seveneves””
So this week, and given its size, probably for a few more weeks, I’ve been reading Seveneves, an apocalyptic doorstopper of a novel by Neal Stephenson. Of course, “doorstopper of a novel” and “Neal Stephenson” do tend to go together; this particular one, if I shook it out of my eReader onto a stack of paper, would add up to about 900 pages, or about the same length of the original Shards before I split it into two parts, which I did because nobody is going to cough up $17.99 $11.99 (the current price of Seveneves) for an eBook by me …
