Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

Editor. Writer. Professor. Host.

What’s in a Review?

I found a rather interesting article on reviews today, and it struck me as a useful tool for any reviewer out there. Check out this link for details. I’d like to know people’s thoughts on this, personally. What criteria do you use to judge a work? Do you consider yourself a critic? What kind of […]

Website Found: PhD Comics

I keep stumbling upon this site and think it is worth mentioning here. What is it?PhD stands for Piled Higher and Deeper and is essentially a great source of post-graduate ridicule. The humor found there is pretty much focused on the stereotypes of post-graduate research and humorously crushing the dreams of graduate hopefuls everywhere–like me. […]

Jason Sanford, Interzone, and a Contest

Recently Jason Sanford has opened up a contest to celebrate the publication of one his stories in Interzone. Basically: help spread the word about his story and Interzone and you could win a free one year subscription to the magazine. Sweet deal, right? Well, that’s what I’m doing. If you want to participate, go here […]

eReaders: Suggestions?

I have probably been a tad bit critical of eReaders in the past, and with good reason, but I’ve been warming up to them somewhat as of late. The reason is that there are a lot of online magazines and magazines that release in PDF format that I would like to read more of, but […]