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Beauty As Keen As The Flash of Blades -By Christopher M. Chupik

Beauty As Keen As The Flash of Blades -By Christopher M. Chupik

(This one was a real challenge to write. It would have all been in vain if not for the help of Deuce Richardson, Keith West and Morgan Holmes. A shout-out is also due to Jennifer Jodell, for her thesis Mediating Moore: Uncertain Origins and Indeterminate Identities in the Work of C. L. Moore. While her analysis takes a more feminist approach to the subject than I would, I still recommend it as as well-researched piece about an au...

Profoundly Unserious

I have perhaps told the story here before of the Fullbright professor who got the unenviable task of teaching my American lit class in the third year of college. My degree being languages, and the curriculum being more rigid than at any American college, (i.e. we all took the same classes and I rubbed elbows only with people with the same (or similar) major and minor), we were all twenty-something year old women, about 25 of us.

Other than a brief issue when we could not, for love or money, d...

Dark Fate 5

*FIRST AND VERY IMPORTANTLY, THIS IS NOT CANON. THIS IS COMPLETELY UNSANCTIONED (okay, not completely. Larry said I could do this for you guys without his ripping my head off) MHI FANFIC.
Good, now that we got that out of the way, why am I doing this? Both Grant and Fado Negro (Portuguese Monster Hunters) have minuscule parts in Guardian, the MHI book I’m collaborating with Larry Correia on. However, obviously the Portugal of Monster Hunter is not the real Portugal (Really, no arcane creature...

Dragon on the carpet

There will be Dark Fate 5 in a couple of hours. Until then, I thought you might want to read this.

madgeniusclub

A little parable for you: Once upon a time, some Bavarian beer fanciers set up a beer-fest in field outside their small town. Now, because nothing goes quite so well with good beer as good smoked and cured pork, soon there were people providing the same, and happy buxom lasses serving beer, eisbein, various pork sausages and ham. Then there was an oom-pah band. Everyone had a great...

The Sweat of our Brow

Hamlet says we are born to die. Heinlein says we are born to strife. Both are right of course, and in a way accepting both of these things is the path out of a lot of our cultural quandries.

We were talking about Welfare in its many forms and what it does to people. It started with discussions of writers and artists who use their “minority” or “underprivileged” status (most of them are actually from very privileged backgrounds, having grown up wealthy beyond the dreams of most of us, and woul...

Third Annual Indie Author Labor Day Sale

madgeniusclub

I’d like to thank Amie Gibbons for pulling this together. Between school and life, I’ve been too busy to think straight, let alone do the legwork.You should really check out her work – she writes fun, original urban fantasy/mythology that is as perky as she is.

It’s that time of year again. The kiddies are back in school, vacations have been vacationed, the season of burned skin is over, and people are getting back into their usual routines.
And you know what that means.
The Th...

Housekeeping

This post is extraordinarily, ridiculously late.

I had to get up very early for a conference (well, the conference itself was at 9:30 my time, and so not that early, but here’s the thing… I had to find the headphone and mike, both of which were packed three moves ago. I managed it just in time, but I was grumpy and weird, because I went to bed close to 2 am and got up at six thirty. So I went back to bed after the conference.

All this lateness brings us to another thing I’m very late at, and...

Solar, Space, and Geomagnetic Weather, Part III By Stephanie Osborn

*My apologies to Stephanie AND the readers on putting this up so late. I meant to cue it yesterday, but it was one of those nights one minute I was at the computer and the other I was in bed and asleep, with no memory of anything in between. Probably because I’d been up since four am.- SAH*

Solar, Space, and Geomagnetic Weather, Part III By Stephanie Osborn

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“Interstellar Woman of Mystery”

Rocket Scientist and Novelist

So we’ve talked about coronal holes, the s...

A Very Diverse Cake

I keep reading things — not just books, but reactions to world events, or stuff about what people think will happen in the near future — and thinking there is a problem of scale.

And by a problem of scale, I don’t mean the stuff that forms inside your drains, though for all I know that too.

What I mean is that most of the world have not a clue about how big the world is, either geographically or culturally.

Blame it on the monkey brains. We were designed to know maybe 100 people, and to range...

Art and Science by Cedar Sanderson

Art and Science by Cedar Sanderson

Monday, I went back to school. I’m at the point where it’s all downhill from here, and I’m looking forward to wrapping it up. The first day of a semester, I’ve learned after 4 years of this, is usually sitting in classrooms having a syllabus read to us. Personally, I’ve usually reviewed it if the class was published online… and done the homework. I was scaring my highschool-age daughters by informing them that in college, you often have homework before the c...