By Nancy Jane Moore I had just finished reading Eleanor Arnason’s novella Mammoths of the Great Plains when I heard that it was one of the finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short fiction of the year. … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2011
This blog post is included in: No Time to Spare Thinking About What Matters by Ursula K. Le Guin Introduction by Karen Joy Fowler December 5, 2017 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt … Continue reading
It happens to all of us–the bad idea comes courting, usually dressed in shiny clothes and seeming like the best thing to show up since air conditioning. It can happen any time of day, but late nights are its favorite haunts, and once you let it in, watch out.
Continue readingTo sell anything on the internet, you need a picture. That an image is worth a thousand words is actually a low-ball valuation. I personally would never buy anything online without being able to see it. How much more is … Continue reading
One of the best things about living in The Barn was the space. Particularly in the kitchen. Our kitchen was something like 30 feet by 40 feet. Which meant that when you wanted to cook, you had room to flex … Continue reading
It’s nearly 2AM here in Missouri and I’m on vacation. I thought I’d have a better chance to write something up but, like on so many occasions, life intervened. Even so, a couple of things have crossed my desk recently … Continue reading
by Sherwood Smith Ever since the Game of Thrones series began on television, I’ve been asked by family members and people outside the genre who know that I love science fiction and fantasy if I’ve ready anything by George R.R. … Continue reading
Before last week’s news that our hive had crowned a new queen, we put the word out that, should anyone see a swarm, we were interested in buying them. A second hive is a handy insurance in case something happens … Continue reading
Earlier this June I had occasion to be in Silicon Valley, and I took the opportunity to visit the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. This is a shining modern temple to geekery and a superb place to visit … Continue reading
Exercises by Ursula K. Le Guin The man in Georgia who posted a lot of blogs pretending to be a Syrian lesbian involved in the anti-government protests in Syria and the congressman in New York who posted a lot of … Continue reading