I put these up on my Facebook account back before I had the blog, but I suspect many non-Facebook people would like a look at them as well. Gene Wolfe, Liz Hand, Rosemary Wolfe Chris Nakashima-Brown, Gordon Van Gelder Chip Delany, Liz Hand Paul Di Filippo, Howard Waldrop, Jeri Bishop. Peter Straub, John Crowley Gary… Continue reading Pictures from the 2009 Readercon
Category: Books
Great Moments in American Forgery
From the “Old News is So Exciting” front, from half a century ago, here’s the story of Joseph Cosey, one of the greatest forgers in American History. Cosey received an even greater tribute from the New York Public Library when, in 1934, with the dual purpose of educating the innocent and removing from circulation as… Continue reading Great Moments in American Forgery
Director of Independence Day to film Isaac Asimov’s Foundation as a “3D epic”
Slashdot tells us that Roland Emmerich, the towering cinematic genius* who brought us such classic films* as Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and 2012, is going to be filming Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series as a “3D Epic.” My thoughts: Man, those 3D scenes where Hari Seldon writes the complex equations of Psychohistory on a… Continue reading Director of Independence Day to film Isaac Asimov’s Foundation as a “3D epic”
What Should I Read in 2010?
In the Before Time, the Long Long Ago (i.e., before I started this blog), I would ask The Vast Wisdom of Usenet (i.e. rec.arts.sf.written) what books I should read this year. Now that I have the blog, I’m posting the question here. Below are 100 books (or a more, counting multiple titles by a single… Continue reading What Should I Read in 2010?
J. D. Salinger, RIP
Reclusive author J. D. Salinger dead at 91. (I don’t usually link to The New York Times, for a variety of reasons, but they’ve got a pretty hefty obit on him.) I started this essay the day he died, but it’s taken me a few days to get down my thoughts. Salinger was a talented… Continue reading J. D. Salinger, RIP
New Lame Excuse Books Catalog Now Available
Just sent out to regular customers last night, with lots of tasty first editions by Roger Zelazny, Jack Vance, Joe R. Lansdale, Stephen King, etc. Email me at lperson1@austin.rr.com if you would like to receive a copy. And of course, there’s the main webpage, but I haven’t updated it with the new titles yet.
My Book-Hunting Trip to Archer City and Points East (and New Acquisitions Found There)
Since I attended a family event in the Dallas Metroplex over the 1/15/10-1/17/10 weekend, I took the opportunity to do something I had long wanted to do: Visit Larry McMurtry’s Booked-Up book store (actually spread across four buildings) in Archer City. The drive itself (a solid five hours) completely redefined my “ass end of nowhere”… Continue reading My Book-Hunting Trip to Archer City and Points East (and New Acquisitions Found There)
Library Additions: December 1, 2009—January 14, 2010
I’ve got a big-ass post on my trip up to Archer City and the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex coming up, so I thought it was high time to engage in some preliminary bookgeeking by listing all the books I’ve picked up since my ginormous post on my library. This may be of very limited interest to… Continue reading Library Additions: December 1, 2009—January 14, 2010
Books Read: China Mieville’s The City & The City
I finished China Mieville’s The City & The City just before the Christmas holidays hit. It’s a very solid, and very interesting, novel, and speculative fiction if you consider Ruritanias fantasy. A police procedural set in a sort of Trans-Balkens City-State duopoly of Beszel and Ul Qoma, which are not just side by side, but… Continue reading Books Read: China Mieville’s The City & The City
Lawrence Person’s Library of Science Fiction First Editions
A long, fairly detailed description of my library of science fiction first editions.