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July 10, 2013
WWW Wednesday July 10, 2013
WWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading.
To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?
• What are you currently reading?
After all this time–over a year!–I am finally reading Timeless, by Gail Carriger. And I’m finally meeting the most adorable, destructive, ferocious toddler ever–Prudence. Why did I wait so long to read this delight? And does anybody know if Ca...
July 9, 2013
All Creatures Real and Otherwise: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Cat Pard
July 8, 2013
Collateral Damage
I’ve seen a bunch of the Big! Summer! Movies! this year, and there seems to me to be a disturbing trend: huge special effects, train crashes, shoot outs, aliens, superheroics…and dead bodies.
Last year The Avengers showed us a whole team of people who saved the world–but took the time to get as many people as possible out of danger while they did it. This year, in Iron Man 3, Tony Stark often rescued people put in danger (the catching-people-who-fell-from-a-plane sequence is particularly brill...
Book View Cafe announces The Guardian Hound by Leah Cutter
Book Two of the Shadow Wars
Lukas first dreams about the end of the world when he’s five. As a prince of the hound clan, he is steadfast and loyal, able to take the form of any hound.
Yet, no one believes him except his grandmother.
The shadows, a corrupting force determined to suck the life out of everything on Earth, have infected the hound court.
How can Lukas survive to adulthood? Then battle non-corporeal creatures and save the world?
This novel is the sequel to The Raven and the Dancing Tige...
July 7, 2013
Fear is the Mind-Killer
Fear is a dangerous and pervasive thing. Sometimes it can be useful–then it produces caution, and prudence, and awareness of consequences. But all too often, it leads to paralysis and worse.
This is true pretty much everywhere. Life. Publishing. Horse training. Everyone’s afraid of something. It’s how she deals with it that matters.
A few years back, for quite some time, I had a horse trainer who seemed to be good at what she did. She talked a lot about “Mistakes are how you learn,” and “We alw...
Author Interview: Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
Interviewed by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
Welcome to the multi-tasking world of author and artist Maya Bohnhoff. Whether writing, composing, painting or any other corner of creative life, Maya has laid claim to a section of more than one artistic community.
Q.) Looking on your website, it seems that your musical work with your husband, musician Jeff Bohnhoff, is mostly parody and filking, that favorite typo of Science Fiction fandom. Your original work Manhattan Sleeps and...
July 6, 2013
Story Inspiration Sunday
One of my favorite sites for microscopy images is Dennis Kunkel’s site.
Fair warning: This site is huge. It can be a time suck, because once you click into it, you start going through pages and pages of the most fascinating images.
Me–I prefer looking at crystals, algae, etc. Thinking about bacteria that may or may not be living on my skin is disturbing.
This is Vitamin C. It’s also an amazing alien ice cave. Or possibly ice in a river flow. I love how jagged yet fluid these crystals seem. They...
Consideration of Works Past: Norstrilia
(Picture from here.)
I never tracked science fiction in the form of magazine stories when I was young. I was denied many of the experiences I’ve read about, waiting with baited breath for the next [insert big name author here] story in F&SF or Astounding. Instead, I discovered authors in books.
I don’t recall discovering any of Cordwainer Smith‘s (a.k.a. Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger) stories at all until I accidentally found Norstrilia, his one and only SF novel, shortly after it was printed i...
The Casey Chronicles Part One: Puppy Habemus!
Casey on the way home, last First Day, Sixth Month
BVC members and husband and wife Dave Trowbridge and Deborah J. Ross recount the adventure of raising a working-line German Shepherd Dog as it happens, week by week, with diverse reflections upon training, socializing, playing, and working with Darcy vom Steinbeckland, who will answer to “Casey,” and, if we can manage it, respond to Yiddish commands. You can help us there; we have a special request at the end of this post.
Do not expect a unifi...
July 5, 2013
Serendipity: The Vergon Gravestone
Vergon Gravestone, photographed by Dazed at AppleSwitcher.com
Serendipity
Research material is found in the most interesting places. I read once that this word means “something precious found not looked for” and this link is it–because I was thinking about the Vergon Gravestone yesterday, and just out of whimsy, Googled it. Lo and behold, here it is. The Vergon family gravestone, in Oak Grove Cemetery in Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio.
You see, I attended Ohio Wesleyan University, back in the D...
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