From the dragon lair of Phyllis IRENE RADFORD, aka P.R. Frost, aka C.F. Bentley: To paraphrase Eliza Dolittle in “My Fair Lady”: Names, names, names, I’m so sick of names, first from them, now from me… As I accumulate pseudonymns … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2008
Just a buck? Well, if 10,000 people donate a dollar, a nice young couple won’t lose their house to the mortgage company. Their story is like so many stories right now. They are both ministers, Ebony currently a stay-at-home mom … Continue reading
It’s the new moon. In honor of the holidays, and of Fred Saberhagen who first bought the story, my fantasy novella “Glad Yule” is appearing on Book View Cafe in three parts, starting today. —Pati Nagle … Continue reading
Macrobiotic = Long Life. From the Greek “macro” (large, long) and “bios” (life) “Doing something over and over the same way and expecting a different result is considered a sign of insanity.” I’ve never had what you might call the … Continue reading
The great Conjurer Lalume explains more natural wonders in the Wide World, and their magickal uses.
Continue readingI was going to review the latest issue of BRAVE & BOLD today, but it is the first issue of a two-parter, and not very good to boot. In four weeks I will hit both parts in one lump, probably … Continue reading
While Sarah is writing, I’m moving. My office to be exact. I’m three weeks into this move. I’m moving the office from downstairs to upstairs. Why is it taking me so long? I’ll tell you. This move is going to … Continue reading
Sometimes I think I’m the only girl in tenth grade who doesn’t have a vampire. I mean, okay, Marcia Prescott doesn’t, but she’s soooo busy with her AP physics that she probably wouldn’t know a vampire if one, you know, … Continue reading
by Vonda N. McIntyre Here’s a question I’ve been asking for a while: In the pre-Columbian Eastern hemisphere, what we used to call in geography class “The Old World,” most of the staple foods are based on the action of … Continue reading
I recently went to a lecture on Jupiter’s Moon Europa by Dr. Don Blankenship of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics. He is part of a team designing a radar system to explore beneath the ice that covers Europa … Continue reading