Tiffany Aching is having trouble. As a trainee witch she’s been
assigned to Miss Treason, a terrifying old woman who uses the eyes of
whatever is nearby to see (Including Tiffany’s own), a boyfriend being
held hostage by his evil relatives and just to make matters worse, the
spirit of Winter has fallen in love with her. Tiffany Aching [...]

I finally have the new platform up and running. Pretty, no? The old site was a mix of pages done by hand, using SSI for repeating elements, plus some cobbled together scripts for RSS-to-HTML displays on the front page, and wordpress blogs. This new site is entirely integrated, and has some fancy features both on [...]

Starring Alex Pettyfer, Mickey Rourke, Alicia Silverstone, Missi
Pyle, Bill Nighy, Sophie Okonedo, Sarah Bolger, Robbie Coltrane,
Stephen Fry, Damian Lewis, Andy Serkis, Ewan Mcgregor and Ashley Walters
Directed by Geoffrey Sax
Adapted by Anthony Horowitz from the first in his smash hit series
of novels, Operation Stormbreaker is, on the surface, another entry
into the increasingly tired ‘teen spy’ genre. [...]

In 1973, The Gods Themselves seemed poised to become a
perennial classic and a major piece of the science fiction canon.
Written by Isaac Asimov, an already acknowledged master of the genre,
it won the two highest awards bestowed upon books of its kind: the Hugo
and the Nebula. In recent years, however, other novels of its era have
overshadowed [...]

Superman Returns has become the center of so much hype, yet one wonders, how will it measure up as a movie? The movie version of The Da Vinci Code
likewise sparked an onslaught of media and marketing to build hype, yet
the movie left the viewer lacking when it was unable to convey the
greatness of Dan Brown%26#8217;s [...]

Oh, the maddening frustration, the
lack of completion, the irresistible lure of needing to know what
happens next. The dreaded words %26#8220;To Be Continued%26#8221; flashing up on a
black TV screen. The movie that fades out before we find out if the
heroes reach their destination. The comic book that ends with one
character%26#8217;s shocked face, seeing something we [...]

The popular image of a science fiction convention is less than flattering.
One pictures a massive convention center teeming with life provided solely by
people defined as those who have no life. An unending procession of geeks,
dorks, nerds, wonks, weenies and other kids who got picked last in gym, ranging
in ages from thirteen to forty (and yet [...]

Langley, they say, is missing and presumed dead, the victim of foul play. I
have no compelling reason to dispute that; the facts appear to speak for
themselves. The trashing of his apartment living room, the vandalistic
destruction, the bloody smears on the wrecked sofa and similar splashes on the
walls and floor, seem to tell the tale. Those [...]

The latest installment in JK Rowling%26#8217;s Harry Potter series (Harry Potter and
the Half-Blood Prince) sold some 9 million copies in the first twenty-four hours
%26#8212; most books never sell that many in their entire print run. Truly the world is
%26#8220;wild about Harry.%26#8221; But what does that mean for the rest of the science fiction
and fantasy genre?
For [...]

Until my recent reading of Stephen King’s On Writing, I had never read any of his books. I bought one or two for a dime here or a quarter there at thrift shops, but they remain as the few unread books on my shelf. I found On Writing at a Salvation Army store. I wouldn’t [...]