Dr. Robert Runte, an Aurora Award-winning Canadian SF critic and commentator and former editor, has written a glowing review of Lost in Translation for Issue 11 of Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, and was kind enough to send it along to me. Highlights: Edward Willett has been publishing nonfiction and award-winning SF for young adults through …
What the title says. Find it here. (Via Science Fiction Book Club.) A taste: 1966 – Flowers for AlgernonThis book is good ifYou can avoid thinking ofPinky and the Brain. P.S. Not sure what the Nebula Awards are? They’re kind of like the Academy Awards of science fiction (by that analogy, the Hugos would be …
…Betty Comden, of the great Broadway team Comden and Green, has died. Mark Steyn reprints an interview he did with her just a few years ago. UPDATE: And here’s Terry Teachout’s tribute to her, which includes a link to an (archived, and it’ll-cost-ya) profile of Comden and Green he wrote in 1999 for The New …
Tonight I’m in Saskatoon, having just been the guest speaker at the annual awards night of the Consulting Engineers of Saskatchewan. I did a very quick (and humorously quippy!) slide show of some of the images from A Safe and Prosperous Future: 100 Years of Engineering and Geoscience Achievements in Saskatchewan. This is one of …
The distinctive smell you get from a pocketful of change held in your hand or a bunch of keys doesn’t come from the metal at all: it comes from you.
More photos here. (Give up? This is a negative image of the center of the lighted dome inside the Saskatchewan Legislative Building.)
There are two sides to the legacy of Janis Joplin. I finished the bulk of the book today and am now doing clean-up work on it (adding subheads and breaking some stuff in sidebars, putting in the supplemental material–timeline, bibliography) etc. This evening was the official launch of A Safe and Prosperous Future: 100 Years …
…because you like to turn pages. Will this change your mind?
My five-year-old daughter just received her first visit from the Tooth Fairy. Soon, of course, she’ll be visited by Santa Claus. Being the scientifically minded parent that I am, I’m always providing my daughter with information about things like why it’s dark now when she gets up in the morning when it used to be …
On April 4, Janis performed in a reunion concert with Big Brother.3,792 words on the Janis Joplin bio today, and the end is in sight; I should be polishing it up tomorrow and submitting it Wednesday at the latest. I probably would have finished it today, except, of course, this was a science column day. …
A slipware Scottish terrier, from the “things I found in my mother-in-law’s house series.” The only notation on the bottom is England 83. I don’t know anything else about it, but he’s a cute little feller, ain’t he? What’s that? You were expecting something about Star Trek instead of a picture of a happy dog …
…of Jack the Ripper?
