Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

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Ari Marmell and Me: Look, My Name is in The Goblin Corps!

What? You don’t believe me? Well see for yourself: Morthûl, the dreaded Charnel King, has failed. Centuries of plotting from the heart of the Iron Keep, deep within the dark lands of Kirol Syrreth-all for naught. Foiled at the last by the bumbling efforts of a laughable band of so-called heroes, brainless and over-muscled cretins […]

Impslapped: Coming to HBO Soon!

I lied.  This probably isn’t coming to HBO.  But we can dream, right?  Peter Dinklage is bloody brilliant in Game of Thrones, so brilliant, in fact, that you could probably do a spin-off show for his character and still produce amazing content.  Can you imagine the witty banter?  I can.  I can indeed… But perhaps […]

Top Five Female Authors of Science Fiction and Fantasy

A while back, Larry over at OF Blog of the Fallen posted this list of fives. I’ve decided to turn each into its own post on my blog, with one modification:  all of them will be specific to science fiction and fantasy.  Hopefully nobody will have a problem with this change. First up, as the […]

The SF Mistressworks Meme

I got this from Ian Sales, who has also done a 21st Century Mistressworks Meme (I’ll have to do that one later). The following list is taken from here. You know how it works: bold those you’ve read, italicise those you own but have not read. Feel free to post your own marked up list […]

Top 7 Repeated Science Fiction Phrases or Words That Have Become Annoying

Remember when it used to be relevant to say “repeated like a broken record” or something like that?  Yeah, neither do I.  But people sure sound like one these days, what with Twitter making it easier and easier to repost every “nifty” thing you’ve ever seen alongside blogs and picture sites used for the same […]