Blog Archive

July, 2008

Thu Jul 31

At the edge of humanity: Amy Thomson's Virtual Girl

by Jo Walton

Couch Potatoes Everywhere Raise Their Fists, Weakly, In Celebration

by John Scalzi

Chris McGrath and the Dresden Files

by Irene Gallo

SDCC Exhibit Hall Walk-through

by Pablo Defendini

SDCC: Fraggle Rock Season 4 on DVD

by David Moldawer

What you have to do for me to write about your book here

by Jo Walton

Ancient Secrets

by Alison Scott
Wed Jul 30

Finding old books with AbeBooks

by Avram Grumer

Short Story Adaptation Poll: Results

by John Klima

Dan Dos Santos paints Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker

by Irene Gallo

Old News

by Alison Scott

Re-reading long series

by Jo Walton
Tue Jul 29

An Interview with Sherrilyn Kenyon

by David Moldawer

Individual and Irreverent: Eric Frank Russell

by Jo Walton

SDCC: Greg Manchess Demo

by Irene Gallo

SDCC: Last Day at the Con

by Dot Lin
Mon Jul 28

A Story Plugged Directly Into The Terror Portions of My Brain

by John Scalzi

Market Acceptance

by John Klima

SDCC: The Wrap of Con

by Ren Hsieh

Review: Microlite d20, by Greywulf and others (2008)

by Bruce Baugh

SDCC: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Toy Parade (Part 3)

by Ren Hsieh

SDCC: Stephan Martiniere demo

by Irene Gallo

Weird Tales wants your spam

by John Klima

SDCC: Saturday round-up, and more Costoomz...

by Ren Hsieh
Sun Jul 27

SDCC: Five (or eight) things make a post--Douglas Wolk

by Liz Gorinsky

Review: Hot War, by Malcom Craig (2008)

by Bruce Baugh

SDCC: In 140 characters or less (Part 2)

by Liz Gorinsky

SDCC: Watching the Watchmen

by Pablo Defendini

SDCC: SF authors panel

by David Moldawer

Tor.com Flickr Group

by David Moldawer

Total Immersion: Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy

by Jo Walton

SDCC: The Cute, the Funny, and the SPOILER

by Dot Lin

O my tiny geeky subculture, you ate the planet

by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Who's watching back?

by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

SDCC: More Costoomz...

by Ren Hsieh
Sat Jul 26

SDCC: Reinventing the Superhero

by David Moldawer

That's just scenery: what do we mean by "mainstream"?

by Jo Walton

SDCC: An Important Announcement From Tor.com

by Dot Lin

SDCC: Rick Berry--another three-in-one demo

by Irene Gallo

SDCC: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Toy Parade (Part 2)

by Ren Hsieh

SDCC: Ha-lo in the House

by Dot Lin

From Herring to Marmalade: the perfect plot of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

by Jo Walton

SDCC: Will Wright’s Spore exploits Geek Addictive Tendencies

by Liz Gorinsky

SDCC: Friday Round-Up

by Ren Hsieh

Fuzzy Heroes III: The Final (Promise!) Fuzzing

by Jim Henley

SDCC: Dr. Horrible Panel-- the non-Twitter version

by Pablo Defendini

SDCC: Marvel

by David Moldawer

MMOs: Bizarro Columbus Sails Atlantic, Gives Home to Indians

by Bruce Baugh
Fri Jul 25

SDCC: One-on-one with Terry Moore

by Pablo Defendini

SDCC: pablod livetwitters Dr. Horrible

by Liz Gorinsky

SDCC: Three-in-one Jon Foster demo

by Irene Gallo

Your Weekend Getaway: Hal Duncan and Jeffrey Ford

by John Klima

SDCC: Thursday Round-Up

by Ren Hsieh

SDCC: In 140 characters or less (Part 1)

by Liz Gorinsky

SDCC: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Toy Parade (Part 1)

by Ren Hsieh

A Different Way to Tell A Story

by John Klima

SDCC: The Greatest American Hero comic book

by David Moldawer

Random Acts of Senseless Violence: Why isn't it a classic of the field?

by Jo Walton

RPGs: Some RIPs

by Bruce Baugh

Some of Origins of Marvel (and Other) Comics

by Jim Henley

SDCC: Jim Butcher Interview

by David Moldawer
Thu Jul 24

SDCC: Guerilla Warfare and Sneak Attacks: Rocco Versaci

by Pablo Defendini

Finding the Doctor

by Constance Cochran

It\'s Official: I\'m Less Intelligent Than a Worm

by John Scalzi

SDCC: Doc Savage film announced

by David Moldawer

Name that Tune

by Melissa Ann Singer

SDCC: I can haz costoom?

by Dot Lin

SDCC: First Impressions

by David Moldawer

SDCC: Preview Night pandemonium

by Ren Hsieh

SDCC: Training Day at Comic Con

by James Frenkel

SDCC: Q&A; with Steven Moffat

by Pablo Defendini

SDCC: Tor.com vs. io9

by Irene Gallo

Comicon of the Mind

by Jim Henley

WWHGD?

by John Klima

SDCC: No Lunch for Exhibitionists

by Dot Lin
Wed Jul 23

Become a bone-marrow donor—I mean you, and right now

by Melissa Ann Singer

An open window to the past

by Beth Meacham

SDCC: Under construction

by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Lilypad Cities

by Pablo Defendini

Confessions of a Dirrrty Pirate

by Pablo Defendini

One for Artists and Photographers

by Alison Scott

Our Oil Crisis: Solved!

by John Scalzi
Tue Jul 22

Handicapping the Hugos

by Moshe Feder

Whither Goest Thou, Print Short Fiction?

by John Klima

The Singularity Problem and Non-Problem

by Jo Walton

Fuzzy Heroes II: The Fuzzening

by Jim Henley

SDCC: Donato Asus sweepstakes

by careY t.
Mon Jul 21

Uses the manufacturers never imagined

by Avram Grumer

Raffle for the KGB

by John Klima

Science that made me smile

by Melissa Ann Singer

A Beauty Treatment I Am Unlikely Ever To Have

by John Scalzi

Dan Dos Santos and Green

by Irene Gallo

Men: Funny Little Testosterone Factories

by John Scalzi

RPGs: Presenting Settings

by Bruce Baugh

Readercon 19, Or, What the Editors See

by Liz Gorinsky

Related Subjects: Living in the Future

by Alison Scott

Dice Tsutsumi on The Totoro Forest Project

by Irene Gallo

Computer Games: The Next World of Warcraft Thing

by Bruce Baugh
Sun Jul 20

Tor.com at San Diego Comic Con

by Irene Gallo

Favorite Science Fiction Movie Based on a Short Story

by John Klima

July 20, 1969

by Beth Meacham

Roleplaying Games: A Past-Like Future

by Bruce Baugh

Welcome, Early Adopters!

by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Good Words About Bad Men

by Jim Henley

Little Brother at the Lake

by Beth Meacham

The conversation

by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Welcome to the Blogosphere

by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Who, Tintin, and the changing of the seasons

by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

The Leviathan

by Wesley Allsbrook

Ecce Fanno

by Moshe Feder

Short Fiction Thoughts

by John Klima

Naming the Plutoids

by John Scalzi

The Conquest of Earth Prime

by Jim Henley

Fuzzy Heroes

by Jim Henley

After the Coup

by John Scalzi

Down on the Farm

by Charles Stross
Sat Jul 19

Into the Pixel

by Irene Gallo

By Their DVRs You Shall Know Them . . .

by Mina McQueen

A Deepness in the Sky, the Tragical History of Pham Nuwen

by Jo Walton

The Percentage of Billionaires Multiplied by the Percentage of Decathletes

by Jim Henley

Freebies Bonanza

by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Superhero Politics: The Art of the Impossible

by Jim Henley
Fri Jul 18

A Homeless Moon in Print

by John Klima

Long Excited Cables

by Alison Scott

Now This is a Moon Shot

by John Scalzi

Listening to the Past From The Future

by Claire Eddy

So How Was the Movie, Mr. Henley

by Jim Henley

Watchmen Trailer: zomfg.

by Pablo Defendini

Dr. Horrible: My Kind of Hero

by Pablo Defendini

Starting a Joke with the Punch Line

by Jim Henley

San Diego Superheroes

by Irene Gallo

Adam Rex and the Frankensteins

by Irene Gallo
Thu Jul 17

Surprised By Science Fiction

by Constance Cochran

Forget Subscribing, Are You Even Reading Short Fiction?

by John Klima

Service R Us

by Beth Meacham

Computer Gaming: Flagship Studios Problems

by Bruce Baugh
Wed Jul 16

Your Intrepid Science Blogger Checks In

by John Scalzi

Do You Subscribe?

by John Klima

The Roleplaying Scene, Summer 2008

by Bruce Baugh

Donato is Iron Man

by Irene Gallo

What Is Casual Gaming?

by Bruce Baugh

Flash in Two Pans

by Jim Henley
Tue Jul 15

Tom Disch at Readercon

by David Hartwell

We Have Readers! They Ask Questions!

by Alison Scott

Southwestern Seasons

by Beth Meacham

The Running of the Dozois

by John Klima

Why I Re-Read

by Jo Walton

The Gaming Beat: Intro

by Bruce Baugh

SF/F Book Cover Review: Call for Entries...and the Rules of the Game.

by Pablo Defendini

Related Subjects: Fandom

by Alison Scott