I was pleased to see the March 2010 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine at Barnes and Noble this evening; it contains my story “The Speed of Dreams.” It’s mentioned in my little bio paragraph, but the greyhound from the story is a real dog. Here’s Patti, star of “The Speed of Dreams”: There’s also [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2010’
The Lovely Bones
We saw the Lovely Bones last week, a movie I quite enjoyed. A serial killer story with cosmic implications? How did they know my dreams? Ahem. Anyway, I’m a little surprised at all the negative reviews it has received. Not that there are negative reviews; just that those reviews trend way negative. At worst, I [...]
ExerTrek: Haven
[For my daily workout, I'm pedaling on a recumbent exercise bike while watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. I'm posting my reviews here.] (202.0 pounds) Okay, I’ll admit it: my stomach clenched when I saw Majel Barrett’s name and realized this was a Lwaxana Troi episode, but it turned out much better than I expected. [...]
ExerTrek: Hide and Q
[For my daily workout, I'm pedaling on a recumbent exercise bike while watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. I'm posting my reviews here.] (204.0 pounds, and wtf is up with that?) One of my favorite lines from all of Star Trek, perhaps my very favorite, comes from Q in the very last episode of The [...]
Salinger
J.D. Salinger is dead. Catcher in the Rye was a book that inspired me to become an English major (for good and for bad), and I consider Salinger’s short story, “The Laughing Man,” to be among the greatest ever written. I’ve studied and underlined and color-coded and retyped that thing to death, and I still [...]
ExerTrek: The Battle
[For my daily workout, I'm pedaling on a recumbent exercise bike while watching Star Trek: The Next Generation. I'm posting my reviews here.] (201.3 pounds) Hoo boy! A battle! Bring it on! A Ferengi daimon seeking vengeance for the death of his son? Using a mind-control beach ball to make Picard relive the battle in [...]