From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Is It You?

31 August 2008

Ever wanted to know whether a site was down or whether it was you? This site is especially useful for those of us who live in areas where the Internet is less than, well, reliable.
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Humorous Science Fiction

27 August 2008

It’s time again for the AW blog chain, and this time, Sassee Bioche’s post before mine talks about humour. Go on, go read her post. You know you want to!
Naturally, that led me to think about the humorous science fiction I’ve read. Well, really, [...]

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If I Were An Agent…

8 August 2008

This post is inspired by Chan’s post over at Fumbling with Fiction.
If I were an agent, I’d still wear my elephant writing hat. Maybe not all the time, but certainly if I had public appearances. I wouldn’t wear high heels or a feather boa, I wouldn’t [...]

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Rest in peace, Alexander Solzhenitsyn

4 August 2008

Alexander Solzhenitsyn has died at age 89. May he rest in peace.
Growing up, we had a lot of books in the house, probably in the neighborhood of several thousand. Among those books were some written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, including The Cancer Ward, August 1914, and The [...]

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