This month’s reading was better than last month, but it was of much narrower focus. I read almost nothing that came out recently until last night, when I started Allen Steele’s latest story in the July Asimov’s. I might also have read even more short fiction were it not for several other things keeping me…
I almost exclusively by e-books these days. The only time I don’t is when: (a) the book is by a friend and I want a signed copy; (b) the book is by a writer I admire and I want a signed copy. I went a little overboard (for me) at the Nebula Weekend. Here’s what…
As embarrassing as it is to admit, I’ve never read a single issue of Rolling Stone. I’m not sure I’ve even looking inside an issue. But earlier in the week, io9 announced that Peter Dinklage had made the cover of Rolling Stone. Being a fan of George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones as well as Peter Dinklage,…
Last night, on the way home from work, I told Kelly that I wanted to read Where the Wild Things Are to the Little Man. He’ll be 3 next month and would certainly appreciate the book at this point. I’d never read it to him before, and in fact, I wasn’t certain we had a copy…
Back in December I read Robert Silverberg’s novella, “Beauty in the Night” and absolutely adored it. The novella was first published in the September 1997 issue of Science Fiction Age, and I may have read it then, too, but it seemed new to me when I read it in December. I knew it was part…
Because Fred Kiesche, Paul Weimer and I were discussing them on Twitter yesterday, here is a photo for Fred and Paul designed to turn them green with envy: Technically, Asimov’s Guide to Shakepeare and Asimov’s Guide to the Bible are not annotations in the sense that the entire work is included and commented on. But Asimov wrote that…
I ordered three new books yesterday, all of them on pre-order, the first of them still several weeks away, but I am excited about each of them. I also ordered two used books–the first that I’ve ordered in some time. One has already arrived and the other is on its way. The new books: I…
April was not a good month for short fiction. The stories were great, but I didn’t have time to read many. This was, in part, due to the fact that I spent much of April doing my annual reading of Isaac Asimov’s autobiography. Between that and the reading I do for my Vacation in the…
Last year, I skipped my annual Isaac Asimov autobiography reading. I was busy with writing, blogging, and my Vacation in the Golden Age reading and it was all too much for me. But I didn’t want to skip it two years in a row, as I so enjoy sitting down with In Memory Yet Green and…
You would not believe how many people arrive at my blog searching for “January 2 2009- December 18, 2010 Sarsota, Flordia/Lovell, Maine” which appears at the very end of Stephen King’s time travel novel, 11/23/63. They usually end up on my review of the novel. A few people have even asked what those dates mean?…
Here is what I read in March: Living in the Eighties by David Ira Cleary (Asimov’s 4/12). [3/2/2012] Some Curious Effects of Time Travel by L. Sprague de Camp (Astounding, April 1942). [3/2/2012] Pig Trap by Malcolm Jameson (Astounding, April 1942). [3/2/2012] Time Pussy by Isaac Asimov (as by George E. Dale) (Astounding, April 1942).…