GoodReads.com is holding their annual reader’s choice awards. There are some excellent books on the list (Who Fears Death? Cryoburn, and The Fuller Memorandum all excellent books), and some I haven’t read yet that I’m now intrigued by (Zero History, Surface Detail, Freedom(TM), The Evolutionary Void). Check them out: here are all the science fiction, fantasy, and paranormal fantasy candidates.
Ninety-one-year old Mamika’s grandson, Sacha Goldberger, turned her into a super hero to cheer her up. Now the photos have gone viral. No surprise, as they are charming, funny, and rather naughty. Check them out.
The costumed photos are cute. But here’s the real kicker. Mamika saved people from the Nazi purges during World War II. She’s a hero in the truest sense of the word.
Go, Super Mamika! I’d vote for you, any day.
21-Nov-10: Links restored.
Welcome! I’m launching a new blog. Here’s a place for me to opine, share cool infospheric matter, and write the occasional nerdy post. Hope you’ll read and comment. To get the wheels turning, I’ve seeded the blog with a few posts I wrote on Eat Our Brains, a group blog for a handful of SFF writer buddies of mine, which has sadly gone quiet …
While I’m at it, thanks to Pati Nagle for setting up the blog for me, and Mac Stone, for adding art, making some cool mods, and seeding it. Y’all are awesome. Just saying.
Oh! And check out the gorgeous artwork. I have a book coming out next March (Up Against It from Tor Books: space ships! asteroids! planet eating machines and rogue AIs and Martian mobsters! Pre-order it here) and scored a fabulous cover by the incredibly talented and prolific SFF artist, Donato Giancola.
PS, Ignore the Twitterfeed for now. It got hacked a while back and I’m having to do some heavy-accel acrobatics to get it back. I’ll let y’all know when it’s up and running.
NASA and JPL post regularly updated news about the ongoing Mars program, so the public can stay up to date.
The NASA/JPL Mars site gives us one reason why it should interest us:
“Mars today is a hostile world, blanketed in toxic soil and zapped with radiation. And yet, we are on a quest to conquer our fears and make peace with this planet. We begin to brave the hardships because Mars is the only planet on which humans could one day settle, making it a place of hope as well as trepidation.”
Because frontiers are fun.
