No updates here!  Nupdate! It’s rare that a post of mine generates such unanimity, but it looks as if the question I asked in my last post has been answered. The Rift will therefore hit the net unaltered, except for the usual tweaks and small improvements.  People reading the novel will experience an alternative universe rather […]

Every single thing I published in 2012 ended up on Locus magazine’s recommended reading list. Both of them! Yes!   You may consider this objective confirmation of the fact that I’m just as swell as I think I am! And just in case it slipped your mind what I published last year, here they are, along […]

Jessica Chastain has two movies in the theaters at this moment.  Mama is a horror film, and Zero Dark Thirty isn’t. Without having seen the first, I suspect the second film is far, far scarier. It’s fortunate that I heard a lot about this movie before I saw it.  I knew to be prepared for grueling torture […]

So I’m just a little late in viewing Terrence Malick’s New World, which came out in 2005.  It was far down in my Netflix queue somewhere, but either Netflix’s computer glitched or every other damn disk wasn’t in the warehouse that day, so here the movie came.  It sat around for months, and then I […]