Sarah Monette's Blog, page 79

This? Is BEYOND awesome.

The Battle of Pelennor Fields in candy.
(link found via panjianlien )

On Faith

My inter-season episode, "On Faith," is live at Shadow Unit . It's a standalone story, so if you've been wanting to check out Shadow Unit, it might be a good place to start. And if you're already reading Shadow Unit, well, I hope you like it.

dream a little dream of ...

Another AU Felix & Mildmay dream last night, this one claiming to be an animated series which might aptly be summed up as: "He's a gay wizard with a dark past; he's a cat burglar with a price on his head. Together, they fight crime!"

Whatever it is you celebrate, have celebrated, or will ce...

Whatever it is you celebrate, have celebrated, or will celebrate at this time of year, I hope it is, has been, or will be very happy.

And I wish you and all the world the very best for 2010.

UBC: The 'Hitler Myth'

Kershaw, Ian. The 'Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.


Oddly enough, I found an excellent one sentence summation of the thesis of this book in the next book I picked up, H. W. Koch's The Hitler Youth: Origins and Development 1922-1945 (1975): "Since he [Hitler:] never said what he meant by 'nationalism' or by 'socialism' he could be, at least for a time, all things to all men" (p. 41). Kershaw's book is an examination of the public image of...

the happiest geek in geekland

Since I'm spamming LJ today anyway--

The mail just brought me two copies of ESLI Magazine 12 (one of which I will be mailing to Bear here presently), in which appeareth the Russian translation of "Boojum." I can identify which story is "Boojum" because it's the only one with two authors (and I can sort of recognize Bear's name and mine in Cyrillic)--and it has an illustration in which I can recognize both the Lavinia Whateley and Black Alice Bradley. (!)

People, I am SO. GEEKED. Endorphin rush ...

Moff's Law

Found via Tobias S. Buckell, this is awesome.

signal boost

Probably you've seen this already, but. Brianna Lacey is missing.

The Devil's Work

So mirrorthaw and I have been joking for a while about this Ph.D. in early American history I'm apparently pursuing in my spare time*, and this morning I realized that I could submit a thesis proposal by January 1st if I needed to. Which, THANK GOODNESS, I don't. Also, ironically, I think it'd be a pretty good book--better in many ways than my actual thesis. Hypothetical title: The Devil's Work: The Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692.


I. Introduction

Here one says what one is going to say. In this...

UBC: Escaping Salem

Godbeer, Richard. Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.


This is a fairly straightforward recounting of the events of 1692 in Stamford, Connecticut, where a seventeen-year-old servant named Katherine Branch started having fits in April (too early, in other words, for her to be influenced by reports of the goings-on in Salem). Godbeer chronicles her master and mistress' attempts to find an explanation, either natural or supernatural, and the event...