My latest airplane reading was a relatively short book by James Blish. Most of his work is straight up sci-fi, but Night Shapers is quite a different work altogether. The book takes place in 1900-ish Africa, and posits what would things have been like if many of the primitive beliefs …
Jack Vance is one of my favorite writers. The man could come up with the most outlandish ideas and turn them into great stories. Nopalgarth, which is basically a novella, is a prime example. What if there were invisible creatures squatting on your head that fundamentally altered your perception of …
John Brunner is always good for an interesting read. As a writer, he stewed up plots that, to my mind, are rarely matched in originality by other more celebrated writers. As much as I admire Brunner and his work, reading The Shockwave Rider was a real struggle despite the fact …
Thanks to Spotify and eMusic, I’ve run across a great goth metal band called Seven Kingdoms. Sounds a bit like Battle Lore, but with a streak of glam metal in it. The songs are surprisingly catchy for a metal band. I find myself singing along surprisingly often, and I’m not …
WordPress makes a great app for posting to your WordPress.com or self hosted site, but sometimes the official app doesn’t cut it. In my case, for some reason I’ve not been able to figure out, I cant upload photos to my website with the official app, so I had to …
Yeah, I know E3 is all about the cool new thing I might get to play in December of the game ships on time, but the Videogame Museum stuff is always hands down my favorite thing. The E3 display had a bunch of stuff I’d not seen before, including some …
Found this the other day. I hadn’t really thought much about the sound track to PotA, but I picked it up anyway and ended up enjoying it quite a bit. It’s no Logan’s Run theme, but still pretty good.
