Folks, I’m wrecked, so more about this tomorrow: but the new chapter’s up for the book’s subscribers. (It’s a fairly plump one, at 18,000 words.) It’s in the same directory…

The season-three Gag Reel from Battlestar Galactica. Thank you, Ron… (via Keith. Thank you, Keith…)

Want. Want. Wantwantwantwantwantwantwant.

And not a moment too soon:  a 3D map of dark matter in the Universe Just our universe, you understand. 

And all in roadsigns.

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. [tags]The Empty Chair,…

  WeinWords: One Giant Leap for Lenkind!

But not the way you’re thinking. A clutch of four Komodo dragons that hatched at London Zoo this year were all the result of virgin births, according to research that…

Update, March 2011:After being available for free download from 2006 to 2011, A Wind from the South is now available for purchase at USD $1.99 at the shop at DianeDuane.com,…

I’m still recovering from my hardware problem. (My computer hung on Sunday, and as a result of the abnormal shutdown the TBM files I was working on got mangled, so…

The first part of Sky One’s adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s The Hogfather managed an impressive average of 2.6 million viewers last night.This figure means the £6 million production, which stars…

You didn’t disguise your identity as thoroughly as you may think you did. I will have my revenge. Meanwhile: 1.What is your favorite Christmas carol/song? “Fairytale of New York”, the…

Folks, apologies. I’m having some hardware issues with the computer that are going to make it impossible to get this chapter up before (my) bedtime tonight:  it’ll be posted tomorrow.…

“Everyone has a cardboard sign in New York.”

It’s also called “the Monomyth”. There’s a good breakdown of its basics on Wikipedia. (NB: apparently some of the citations on the Wikipedia article are being checked for accuracy.) The…

But then the statement was made “late Friday”, when everybody was probably at a Christmas party somewhere. (Or NewsCorp hoped they were.) (Sorry, the only link I have at the…

Jeez, that film got dreadfully spanked in the reviews. This is something of an issue for me, as one fantasy film’s bad fortune affects all other potential fantasy pitches far…

I’m about to coin a word. I don’t know if the thing I’m going to coin about is happening in the US right now (or elsewhere), but it sure happens…

Or Orson Welles. Or somebody. Last night the Belgian state broadcaster’s news program announced that the Vlaamse-/Flemish-speaking part of Belgium had seceded from the country. Over the next hour and…

Just for those of you who might be interested  — The Big Meow’s sixth chapter will be going up for the subscribers on Sunday evening, the 17th of December. Subscribers, please…

I have a piece of software called “Woodstock Chimes SereneSaver” that I picked up some years ago. Apparently it’s still available here and there online — see here, for example. …

(snort) Defamer swings twice, connects twice. In other multiple nominations news, Helen Mirren was recognized for playing both Elizabeth I in a TV miniseries and Elizabeth II in The Queen,…

On the delightful John Scalzi’s last list of his 51 best personal writers’ blogs in SF and fantasy, OOA ranked 49th. Now it seems we rank 36th. Well, coolness, but…

This is going to be fun! The excellent Chris Meadows (aka Robotech Master) has written an article on serializing novels on the Internet for the weblog at his TeleRead site,…