If you're looking for a combat challenge, a platformer that requires good twitch skills, or MP PvP extravaganza, this isn't it. This is a gentle game of exploration and light puzzle-solving. There's no combat, and you can't "die"; at worst you can get into a state in which you can no longer search for some optional benefits.…
I’m still recovering from a day spent at Lunacon, the premier New-York-area literary SF convention.
I just came back from seeing the movie. I’ll get to the review, but first is the tale of my connection with Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars.
A heart-warming, feel-good story about a poor-but-honest religious separatist named Anton LaVey who gets together with his friends to put on a show and save the local church. In a world where he’s treated by scorn and derided by neighbors, he rises up against injustice and…
Mountain Lion is the next version of the Mac OS. From the Mountain Lion press release: "Gatekeeper is a revolutionary new security feature that gives you control over which apps can be downloaded and installed on your Mac. You can choose to install apps from any source, just as you do on a Mac today, or you…
Roses are red, Violets are purple, Which is a very hard word to rhyme And makes me happy that on February the 14th we don't traditionally have to give each other oranges.
I’ve spent almost this entire weekend working on the biography. And yet I did little or no actual research. It was all about soliciting interviews and organizing resources.
Wil Wheaton recently wrote a good blog post about self-publishing. I don't plan to self-publish Isaac's biography. But Wheaton's post reminds me that I'll need a content editor, a copy editor, and a layout designer for the book. If a publisher does not offer those services, I probably should find a different one. For those of you…