Pleasing Surprise of the Week

May 28, 2009

Hey! Jo Walton, author of the excellent Small Change alternate histories, who had previously said some nice things about me, now says some nice things about Dread Empire’s Fall. When a writer with Walton’s talent says I’m good, I just get all squishy inside.

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Baad Movie Digest, Volume One

May 27, 2009

Oh my. It’s a plot summary of the Turkish Star Wars. . . . My next best guess is that they’re hit by lasers since they both fall down when a man in armor shows up. Turkish special effects are not what you’d call an exact art, and here the picture is severely scratched up, […]

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Portrait of the Youngster as an Artist

May 27, 2009

I was looking through some old photos the other day and found this picture of me, circa 1984. Looking at the image, I recognized the Student Union building at Texas A&M before I noticed the AggieCon badge on my lapel. I was smack in the middle of writing Hardwired when this photo was taken. The […]

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The Terror. The Terror.

May 27, 2009

I was visiting yesterday with some friends, and one of them put on the first ten minutes of Team America: World Police. (For those who haven’t seen it, the first ten minutes are the brilliant part of the movie, and after that it’s just so-so, except for Kim Jong Il’s plaintive little song halfway through.)Imagine […]

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Reviews Too Late: Twilight

May 23, 2009

Urban romantic fantasy isn’t really my metier, but I thought I’d catch Twilight on pay per view and check what the zeitgeist has been up to while I wasn’t looking.Filmed in Pale-O-Vision, Twilight was actually a pretty good movie, as far as that goes. (I mean, it is what it is, you’re not going to […]

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Galtic Paradise

May 22, 2009

USA getting too socialist? Tea-baggers too wimpy? Here’s a place for you to go galt in style!

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Dinosaurs of War

May 22, 2009

Cracked magazine presents: 7 WTF Military Weapons You Won’t Believe They Actually Built I’d post some sarcastic comments here . . . but really, they’d be superfluous.

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Not Girly In Singapore!

May 21, 2009

This Is Not a Game has garnered a great review from the Straits Times, Singapore’s foremost newspaper! While all of this is interesting, without strong characters and an engaging plot, This is Not a Game would be nothing but another bit of ‘fan fiction’ about the joys of living online. Instead, Williams’ novel is punchy, […]

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Cell Tower . . . Tree . . . Thing

May 21, 2009

Kathy and I were driving through Albuquerque the other day and we saw this . . . object . . . on the horizon. “What is that?” Kathy asked in bewilderment. “Is that a Norway spruce?” No, it wasn’t. It was a cell phone tower cleverly disguised as a Norway spruce. Kudos to whoever thought […]

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Clarkson v Honda

May 19, 2009

Some say that Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson is a swaggering sexist lout. Some say that he’s a smug, anti-environmentalist, gas-guzzling enemy of the ozone layer. All we know is that he’s done a wonderfully savage review of the new Honda hybrid Insight . . . It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money […]

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