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(You know, there are times when I wonder if I don’t have some form of brain disease. I posted this yesterday, but didn’t leave the links for any of you to click. How exactly are you supposed to be nice and friendly and vote/review WISB if you don’t even know where to go? My apologies. […]

The Book Magnet Project: Let’s Cover My Fridge

The other day I put two promotional magnets for two books I have received on my fridge. Why? Because I had them and I’ve always wanted to put stuff on a fridge, but I’ve never had one I could properly call “mine.” Now that I do, I want to cover the blasted thing with promotional […]

Signal Lost; Sorry For the Inconvenience

I wanted to apologize to everyone for my silence the last few days. My computer decided to cease functioning on Friday. It’s currently being assessed by a technodoc and should be back to operational capacity by Tuesday or Wednesday (depending entirely upon my ability to retrieve it from the technospital). Unfortunately, this means my ability […]

9/11: Thoughts

Here we are again, on this day that has shaped our lives as Americans. Anyone living today that thinks 9/11 hasn’t changed the landscape has been living in a box, buried in the abyss of nonexistence. It would be safe to say that our world effectively ended when 9/11 entered the social landscape. We had […]

Punking Everything in SF/F (Part Four): The (Closer) Past (Cyberpunk B)

(Here begins the second part of my conceptualization of cyberpunk. Expect these sorts of things to be irregular, but at the same time a part of this blog, because much of what I will be doing as a graduate student is exactly what I am doing here, but simply on different subjects. This is, for […]

Publication Against LGBT Content: Writers Be Aware

(LGBT = Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) Notice I said “be aware” in the title. I am not saying you should avoid the publisher mentioned as unfriendly to LGBT in this post over at Crossed Genres. Rather, I’m telling you to be aware of it. What you choose to do with the information presented in […]