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You can get a free issue of the July/August 2008 Weird Tales here.

Its been a while since I blogged about Wired Love: A Romance in Dots and Dashes and Read the rest of this entry »

In the vein of my previous post (Flashback visions of SF) there is an interesting post at SF Signal about underrated authors.
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Came across an interesting post on MetaFilter on Dashiell Hammett and Red Harvest that led me into this thicket hard boiled links: Read the rest of this entry »

I am happy to say that I received the OCRed version of Wired Love two days ago and have started proofreading it.

The Scarlet Pimpernel, who is one of my favorite characters of all time and one of the inspirations for the Night Whippoorwill, is the Wiki Page of the Day:

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A list of various things that I have been up to recently and/or are currently engaged in (in no particular order):

• I started reading Charles Stross’ Halting State and have been enjoying it.
• Turned “The Shaper’s Daughter” over to a friend for copy editing while I work on researching markets.
• Finishing up the new scene to begin “The Alchemist of Liberty”.
• Built a double loft (basically from scratch) for Merideth over the weekend.
• Porting a bunch of my old wiki articles to the new wiki.
• Started watching Torchwood. Three episodes and liking it a lot.
• Researching a PHP based bookmark tool to add to fritzfreiheit.com
• and someone at UofM has developed a new plastic that is as strong as steel and transparent.

I got on a reading recommendations jag and it all started with Cosma’s Notebooks (a cool web site which I hesitate to call a blog — oh, OK, I will — is a personal blog about science, book, computation, etc geeks)…

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Every so often I feel the need to recharge my batteries and immerse myself in some great writing. When I do I find that I consistently turn to P.G. Wodehouse, specifically Young Men In Spats (I particularly love “Good-Bye to All Cats”). I also find myself reading Raymond Chandler, Jane Austen, and, believe it or not, Georgette Heyer. What is the common thread among those authors? From my perspective, they are the best writers (that I have actually read) in the English language.

Reading good SF also gives me a good jolt. Something by Iain M. Banks, Louis McMaster Bujold, or pretty much anything new and in the action-adventure space opera sort of genre.