One of the books I picked up at ArmadilloCon this year was The Spirit Lens, by Carol Berg. Someone is trying to kill the king of Sabria and keeps missing. So far, all the evidence points to Queen Eugenie. To try to divine the plot and clear the queen’s name, King Philippe summons a distant cousin, Portier de Savin-Duplais, to solve the mystery. This is a rich, complex fantasy. Everything about it is layered, from Read more…
We put a quarter next to it for reference. Personally I am irked that there exists a moth this big on my front porch. I feel like nature has gotten out of hand around here.
I finally figured out why I am ambivalent about the news that George Lucas is going to release the two Star Wars trilogies in 3D. First off, of all of the changes he’s come up with to the original trilogy, this one makes the most sense, if that makes sense. Lucas is a B-movie type of guy. If 3D technology had been worth a damn back in the 1970s, the original series would have already Read more…