This week’s Book Cover Throwback is from Robert Heinlein. Besides being an amazing story, the cover to this book is just breathtakingly gorgeous. I honestly miss the days when book covers were works of art, rather than the same photoshopped, Read More…
If you’ve read my Flashback Friday on Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey or my Book Cover Throwback on Michael Whelan‘s cover for All the Weyrs of Pern, then you know what a huge influence Ms. McCaffrey served on me as a Read More…
I’m posting this on Monday, but the actual gaming took place last night. My husband and I got to sit down at our usual haunt with game developer & author, Jonathan Tweet, to play some new games. The winner of Read More…
In honor of Banned Books Week this week, I challenge all of you to read a banned book or comic/graphic novel. And I challenge all writers to write the stories that need telling. Don’t shy away what needs saying out Read More…
This week’s Book Cover Throwback is from Ray Bradbury. I cannot express my love for this cover enough. I know there are other old covers, but this one is my favorite. Wonderful cover for a wonderful book. Perfect for Banned Read More…
Probably one of my favorite tabletop games is the Munchkin series by Steve Jackson Games. There are dozens of themes to this game—everything from vampires and Cthulhu to Pathfinder and space. We own about 2/3 of the games & expansions Read More…
Like most of my generation, I saw the Disney film before I read the book, wherein I fell in love with the Cheshire Cat. Lewis Carroll‘s book is quite a bit darker, which appealed to the teen-age me. But what Read More…
This month, one of the books I’ve read was Kindred by Octavia E. Butler. I’d heard about this book but had never managed to sit down and actually read it until this month. While it deals with time-travel, it does Read More…
This week’s Book Cover Throwback is from H. G. Wells. Definitely a classic! I love this version of H. G. Wells‘ The Time Machine. I bought a copy with this cover at Half Price Books back when I was twelve. Read More…
This month, one of the novels I’ve read is the speculative fiction novel CyberStorm by Matthew Mather. There are many excellent books that are being indie-published these days, though I still feel that the majority of books aren’t all that Read More…
