Daily Archives: March 11, 2014
1979 Called and It Wants Its Tuffskins Back
Posted on March 11, 2014 156 Comments
Here’s a genuine blast from the past: On Facebook, my pal Gary Mizuhara unearthed our fifth grade class picture from Ben Lomond Elementary School in Covina, California, all the way back in (gasp) 1979. See if you can guess which of these kids is me. I think it’s pretty easy to figure out which one […]
The Orthodox Church of Heinlein
Posted on March 11, 2014 385 Comments
If you’re an aficionado of passive-aggressive fannish xenophobia, in which the frothing distrust of people who aren’t just like you is couched in language designed to give the appearance of being reasonable until you squint at it closely, then you’re not going to want to miss this piece by Baen publisher Toni Weisskopf. It’s a […]
The Big Idea: Leah Cypess
Posted on March 11, 2014 8 Comments
In this edition of The Big Idea, author Leah Cypess has a shocking confession about the genesis of her new novel Death Sworn! Which isn’t, uh, actually all that shocking for those of us who are writers, because I think most of us do something like it. I mean, I do. But even so! Remember […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying