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Star Trek and other licensed properties
The Starship and the Upstairs Flat
There is a moment in Sherlock‘s second-season episode “The Hounds of Baskerville” in which the world’s first and only consulting detective is attempting to get to grips with the fact that his senses, the tools of his trade, utterly reliable for all his past life, have apparently turned on him and are no longer to [...]
Since you were asking: The Door into Starlight
ETA, 23 November 2011: I’m Tweeting about this post for the last time(s) this year, as I’m about to judge the results at year’s end and decide what to do. Want to take action (assuming you haven’t already) to help me decide? If the Ebooks Direct store is part of your plans, you may want [...]
It was only a matter of time: Romulan Ale
It had to happen, didn’t it? (As a commercial product, I mean. Heaven knows it’s been around SF conventions in one form or another forever.) And naturally, it now happens as an energy drink. “Romulan Ale Star Trek Energy Drink will not make you drunk. What it will do is ramp up your body for [...]
And now a word about our favorite pizza source in Dublin
Which would be (originally) Independent Pizza Co. in Drumcondra, but (even more so) its younger sister-facility, Gotham Café in South Anne Street. The excellent Adam Kuban of Slice, the pizza lovers’ website par excellence, has just kindly posted a note I dropped him about the place. Gotham Café is one of our favorite places to [...]
About the blogger
30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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