Monthly Archives: February 2009

Bees!

I ordered my bees today. I put the $70 order in at Betterbee.com, which is up in Greenwich, NY. This is very late to order bees. Usually they tell you to order by February 1st. I hope that Betterbee is not sold out. I have not yet received my order confirmation. Greenwich (pronounced green-witch) is […]

Voyage to the City of the Dead, Alan Dean Foster (1984)

I read Alan Dean Foster’s Voyage to the City of the Dead. Good story and characters. It was an engaging read and I recommend it. Read the Review of Voyage to the City of the Dead, Alan Dean Foster (1984)

My story at Electric Spec Magazine

Electric Spec has my story up. RepFix by K.P. Graham

Separated at Birth

I don’t usually watch much of presidential speeches. There has been little reason to do this for the last 8 years. Obama, though, is a tremendous speaker and his speech the other night was very interesting and entertaining. I am rooting for him, although I am not sure that any spending or bailout plan will […]

Philip José Farmer 1918-2009

Philip José Farmer died today at the age of 91. I remember Mr. Farmer as the Science Fiction writer who finally brought sex to SF, even before Heinlein. His story The Lovers is the first and best story of a love affair between an alien and a human. His Riverworld Series will always be on […]

Brigands of the Moon Ray Cummings (1931)

Ray Cummings is one of the important early writers of SF. He wrote for Astounding and Amazing in the first incarnations. Brigands of the Moon, however, is not readable. Review of Brigands of the Moon Ray Cummings (1931)

Rudy Rucker on Self-Publishing

Rudy Rucker was interviewed at selfpublishingreview.com. Rudy is one of my favorite writers. I discovered him when I started exploring cyberpunk, but Rudy is a different animal and his books are more like math-punk. His novel Wetware was the first thing that I read by him, and I still think it is his best. Rudy […]

SAO Short Course Week 0

I received the email telling me how to log on to the Swinburne Astronomy Online (SAO) short course. I managed to get onto their oh-so-slow system. They use a package with clunky java applets and ugly frames – very 1990s. I tried to change my password, which can be easily derived if you know my […]