Our second Virtual Speculative Fiction Book Club selection was much better than the first. Our second club meeting was also an improvement, since Kathy and Brian were visiting Portland that weekend and we discussed zombies and airships while enjoying coffee…
Postcard #27
You stay classy, Ken and Jerry! I also like how the Postal Service felt it necessary to include a warning about the insufficient postage–but still delivered the card. I guess I’ll just owe them the sixteen cents?
Postcard #26
This is Tiffani‘s first year of eligibility for the Campbell Award, thanks to the publication of her story “If Wishes Were Horses” in Strange Horizons. Her personal life has gone through some unpleasant upheavals recently, but she’s now making a…
Postcards #24 and 25
Why do I feel like I’m uploading assets for an ARG? Anyway, if the pattern starting with Jeff’s first postcard holds, I’m expecting to get at least three more of these. He also sent a postscript by e-mail: “Google Go…
Postcard #23
Tony Choe is one of my oldest friends. We attended high school together, where we shared many experiences–from AP English classes to marching band to Latin conventions to… yeah, yeah, we were a couple of huge nerds. But you know…
SnoutCast #37: “Scouting”
How do GCs pick locations for their Games? We don’t know how others do it, but we can talk about how Team Snout does it. And we do! [ Download mp3 – 34 MB ] 00:58 – “discerning”02:27 – Please…
eBook Report: Wildside
Rescued from the backlist: Steven Gould’s 1996 novel Wildside, now available in eBook format with spiffy new cover, shown above. (Disclosure: I got the manuscript for free, as part of his crowdsource proofreading project; and I probably took longer to…
Postcard #22
After playing and running several Stanford Games in the 1990s, Brent and Linda co-founded a company, Shinteki, to create puzzle hunts for fun and profit. They’re very clearly doing it right. I always look forward to working with them to…
Postcard #21
From our globe-trotting friend Susan, who introduced us to the flying trapeze a few years ago. We don’t get to hang out with her nearly often enough.
Comic Book Report: Rapunzel’s Revenge
I actually finished reading this a few weeks ago, but didn’t get around to blogging it until now. It’s a children’s book, written by Shannon and Dean Hale (married) and illustrated by Nathan Hale (no relation). The art is pretty…