You have a little less than two weeks to nominate me for a couple Hugo Awards, so it’s time to get busy! We need to pull together for this to happen, but if we succeed in coordinating our efforts, my mantelpiece will have two shiny new rockets, a massive injustice will have been laid to […]

The Good News Fairy has a veritable shirt full of goodies for me this week!Firstly, the folks at conceptscifi.com have very kindly made This Is Not a Game their book of the month! One could have wished that it would occur on the month when the book is actually released, but one can’t have everything, […]

Some of you are thinking, “why?” Why defile a perfectly good piece of classic English literature by adding gratuitous gore, ninjas, and childish sexual innuendos? Well I say, “because it’s there…and because antiquated copyright laws let me.”Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith. Coming in May, from Quirk Books.

You know that if it’s a serious Chinese-language film, it’s going to be a tragedy. No one in China ever gets a happy ending. Ever. Not even fictional characters. That’s Rule #1. So I never figured I’d ever mistake this film for, say, It’s a Wonderful Life.Yet when Netflix informed me that Ang Lee had […]