Daily Archives: May 11, 2009
Quick Review: Star Trek
Posted on May 11, 2009 179 Comments
I enjoyed it. First, it was substantially better than the last two Trek films, which shouldn’t have been hard to do, but then one should never underestimate the power of Hollywood to mess up a sure thing. But they did their reboot well enough; it was big and pretty and noisy and didn’t look like […]
Happy Average Birthday, Rob
Posted on May 11, 2009 17 Comments
One of my closest friends in high school, Robert Lawrence, has a birthday on the 12th of May; mine is the 10th. Which makes today our Average Birthday. To commemorate the occasion of our 40th Average Birthday, I present a song that we played a lot in our high school years, ON AN LP BECAUSE […]
Before I Forget
Posted on May 11, 2009 2 Comments
Let me just say “thank you” to everyone who’s wished me happy birthday via Whatever, e-mail, in person and in the various social media. I got quite a lot of birthday wishes this year; it’s been a nice feeling. Thanks again.
Nitpickery on a Non-Trivial Scale
Posted on May 11, 2009 111 Comments
Over at Tor.com, Jason Henninger interviews Fantasy & Science Fiction editor Gordon Van Gelder about the state of the science fiction market, and my name gets invoked (along with that of Charlie Stross and Cory Doctorow) as being one of the “big three” science fiction authors who have figured out how to make this whole […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying