To-Read Tuesday, June 27
I was gathering together my stack today, and as I was looking for a fourth book, I realized the first three had a theme of bad-ass women, and decided to stop there. I have been longing to tear into the second installment of Bitch Planet since it dropped, but I am in...
On why there needs to be more marine biology and synthetic biology inspired speculative fiction
Forgive me for the long Victorian-style title. I’m reading On the Origin of Species (finally) right now. One of the endlessly ongoing debates in science fiction is this: What, exactly, is hard science fiction? I have always taken it for granted that hard science...To-Read Tuesday, June 20
I know the Orphan Black book is non-fiction, but it’s about speculative fiction, so it totally counts, right?
To-Read Tuesday, May 23
Okay, I couldn’t go with my usual stack of books photo this time because it felt like an actual tragedy to not share the covers with you. For instance, the cover is 90% of the reason why I bought The Last Machine in the Solar System, even though I really...
The Dancing Star Press Logo
The first thing I did after filing my “Doing Business As” paperwork with the county was to send a message to my friend Siso to ask him if he would design a logo for me. Siso and I had worked together at Impression 5 Science Center, so I had been able to...and this is why you don’t sign contracts with crackpots…
“I am suing Simon & Schuster for $10 million,” said Yiannopoulos during a livestream promoting Milo Inc., his latest venture. “I want to send them a message that they can never again do this to a libertarian or a conservative.” From “Milo Socks...
To-Read Tuesday, May 2
Have you heard of Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon? It happens twice a year, and I try to participate in at least one of them with my son. The last was this past Saturday, and it put a small (really negligible) dent in my to-read list. But it prompted a lot of book...
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