After over a year’s hiatus, Chapter 7 of Diane Duane’s self-published-over-the-net novel, The Big Meow, has finally been released to subscribers! Check out the first six chapters, posted for free, and hopefully, you’ll decide to become a subscriber. After the year that Diane has apparently had (multiple family losses, multiple medical issues including gall bladder), a few extra subscribers would be a good thing.
BoingBoing links to a story about a time travellers’ bulletin board that sounds a little too familiar…
Edit: fixed fried link
Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001, Earthlight, Rendezvous with Rama, and many other classic science fiction novels, died at his home in Sri Lanka this morning.
The title of this post, the closing line of his story “The Nine Billion Names of God”, was shamelessly stolen from dmsilev@Kos, where I heard the news.
Heh, I thought that sounded familiar when Owen said it on Torchwood. It’s straight out of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, by Stephen R. Donaldson. :-)
Whoa.
Do not watch Doctor Who Series 3 Episode 10, “Blink”, after midnight.
You will regret it.
You are Toshiko
It’s tough being a geek. People walked all over you in high school, and you’re finding that adult life, sadly, isn’t so different. But without you, our computers would crash, we couldn’t program our DVD players, and our plasma screens would be on the fritz. Clearly, you’re a necessary part of the operation, even if everyone else doesn’t always realize it…
To find out who you are, check the BBC America site.
…would they blow a hole in the space-time continuum the exact size of Belgium?
We just watched the Season 2 premiere of Torchwood on BBC America, guest-starring James Marsters.
Oh, my. Marsters has still got it. :-)
So, as mentioned earlier, I picked up Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog. Unfortunately, I haven’t gotten to it yet, because I’m too busy with Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series. It’s Horatio Hornblower/Jack Aubrey with dragons, basically. Highly recommended.
