Daily Archives: December 18, 2008
Two Possible Explanations
Posted on December 18, 2008 37 Comments
Every picture tells a story. Here’s the story of this one: They tell me that right up to the end, Santa couldn’t understand why the elves, whom he had always sternly but in his mind fairly treated, had turned on him so. Hadn’t the hovels of mud and seal sinew that he gave them kept […]
Come See Me and Mary Robinette Kowal in San Francisco, 1/16/09
Posted on December 18, 2008 27 Comments
An announcement for people living in or near the San Francisco area: On Friday, January 16, at 7pm, at Borderlands Books, 2008 Campbell Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal and I will be appearing together at for something we’re calling “John and Mary Show You Their Shorts” — Which is to say, we’ll be reading from […]
The Big Idea: Nick Stone
Posted on December 18, 2008 20 Comments
Personally, I’m not much for fortune-telling… and yet even lil’ ol’ rational me has been known to look at the fortune inside a fortune cookie and be amazed that it contains the right words at the right time. Is it coincidence? An example of the human mind being able to read way too much into […]
The Best Science Fiction Film of 2008
Posted on December 18, 2008
I tell which it is in my AMC column this week. And while the picture above probably gives it away, it doesn’t give away the films I also nominate for the most overrated SF film of the year, or the one I found the most personally satisfying, or the one I feel bad about being […]
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