Sunday night, January 23, I will be seeing “Hot Tuna” live at the Helen Hayes theater in Nyack, NY. I am looking forward to this. We listen to Hot Tuna on vinyl every sunday night at poker. We have named one of our games after the group. On March 25, I will be at the […]
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Books on Tape – Short Reviews
Monday, January 10, 2005
Books on Tape I finished “The Diamond Age” by Neal Stephenson. The ending was not as good as I would have liked. Stephenson ended it, but it was not satisfying. It sort-of reached a point where the book was long enough so he just shut down the plots. I bought Stephenson’s Snow Crash on eBay. […]
Hit and Miss
Monday, January 10, 2005
I received a no from SDO Ghost on a story that I thought that I had not submitted to them and a Yes from Tales of the Talisman for my Western tale. I thought that this one was a dead-un also because I mistyped my email address on the submission. The Talisman sub was for […]
James Baker Award
Monday, January 3, 2005
Bad news on the James Baker Award over at SamsDotPublishing.com. I am up against Justin Stanchfield who seems to be pretty damn good. His story Steel Birth pisses all over my “Flare Bound” story. In addition, the SamsDotters telegraphed their hand by having his story on their Preditors and Editors sample ballot.
2005
Monday, January 3, 2005
Boy are you guys lucky. I started writing a 2004 retrospective and an outlook on 2005. Both were pretty grim, and I trashed the entry, so all I will say is that 2005 is going to be another tough year. I hope things get a little better – at least for a while. I’m sick […]