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 […]

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The Star Trek MMORPG is finally moving forward.
Yay!
Tags: Star+Trek, MMORPG

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Turns out I have one more hardcover copy of Spock’s World available. These are hard to find now in decent condition. The book’s dustjacket is in good condition — slight bumps to top and bottom of spine and corners: otherwise perfect. The book inside I would rate as good / very good quality — tight, […]

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As the rest of the books offered for sale a while back get their final fates and destinations worked out, here’s one that is now free again to be sold.   Gone now: thanks to the buyer!
 …I have a spare first edition hardcover copy of Spock’s World. These are hard to find now in […]

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Some of you constant readers may remember this message of last spring when I was in the process of getting rid of / cleaning out some old books.
The process got badly messed up by the numerous health problems of the later spring and the family losses of the summer and fall. As a result I […]

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My excellent former co-writer and dear friend Michael Reaves and our old buddy Marc Scott Zicree have done something extraordinary with another mutual acquaintance and occasional dinner guest, George Takei.
Today is the last day you can vote at TV Guide’s Online Video Awards for their joint effort in the Star Trek: New Voyages series, World […]

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Authors’ copies of my books have started piling up around here again, so I thought I’d offer some of them here for those of you who might like signed copies of this or that before we start restructuring / restocking our offsite storage. Also, I’ve been able to acquire some good-quality copies of earlier stuff […]

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A nice mention of The Empty Chair this morning at the Albany Times Union books blog. Thanks, Michael: thanks, Eleanor! And regards from an expat New Yorker.

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There are just a couple of things on my mind that (in light of earlier posts and responses) I want to share before I get back to the various pieces of work I need to be doing today.
Re whatever might have been going on in the ST:TNG offices as the first season got underway: […]

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I just want to take a moment to link to this, in which the excellent Wil Wheaton gives us an in-depth analysis of the episode.
While reading it I had to stop several times to clean the tea off the keyboard, and (since Peter is still snoozing upstairs, having had a late writing night) restrain myself […]

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For those of you unwilling to wait for the release of the book proper: From the Simon & Schuster e-book blog –

We have yet another advance eBook release this month — Rihannsu Book Five: The Empty Chair by Diane Duane. Capping off the 40th anniversary celebration of Star Trek, the long awaited conclusion of New […]

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