Daily Archives: February 1, 2009
Recommended by Locus
Posted on February 1, 2009 12 Comments
This is nice: Locus magazine has released its “Recommended Reading List” for 2008, and I’m on it twice: First for Zoe’s Tale, in the Young Adult Books category, and then again for “After the Coup” in the short story category. I suspected ZT might show up on the list this year, as the Locus review […]
Amusing Yourself Completely (and Legally) for $100 a Month
Posted on February 1, 2009 94 Comments
Currently, I pay a stupid amount of money every month to amuse myself and my family. We pay for music, movies, television and books, DVDs and video games and so on and so forth. The economy, such as it is, loves us for it, since apparently we’re some of the few still doing that right […]
Heads Up on The Forever War
Posted on February 1, 2009 45 Comments
I’ll make mention of this again in a couple of weeks, on the actual release date, but I wanted to put it on your radar now: There’s a new edition of The Forever War coming out on the 17th of this month, and the reason I’m mentioning it to you, aside from the fact that […]
More Proof the President is the Alpha Geek of the World
Posted on February 1, 2009 27 Comments
The new symbol of Washington insider-dom is whether or not you have Barack Obama’s private e-mail address. For the record: I don’t have it, drat the luck. But I don’t know that I’d really want it; the first time you sent Obama a forwarded LOLcat, the Secret Service would show up at your door. That’s […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying