Oh! And I can’t believe I forgot to include NK Jemisin on my list. She’s one of my favorites! I especially love her most recent series (which has been winning lots of awards) which starts with The Fifth Season.

Seconded on the Pratchett; his books are delightful and warm, even as they are incisive. Seconded on Gaiman and LeGuin, and you should read Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman.

SO MANY GOOD BOOKS TO READ! I can’t wait.

I’m on vacation in Italy now, and I’ve been horrified at how careless people have been around priceless artifacts. In one art museum, I saw a middle-aged man casually resting his hand on a Roman sarcophagus that was roped off. In another museum, I saw people reaching out to caress the base of a bronze statue that had…

For the record, DC weather was lovely over the weekend. Temperatures in the 70s! This week, we’re getting temps in the 70s and low 80s and some rain. I have a low tolerance for heat, but even I could work just fine without AC right now because we’re having weirdly cool weather at the moment.

FYI, if you want to know the table of contents on New Voices of Fantasy, here it is:

I got ARCs of The New Voices of Fantasy and Golden Age. New Voices is an excellent anthology and I think Beagle is probably right that these are the new rising stars in the genre. If you’ve read much short genre fiction over the last few years, you may have read most of the stories in this collection already. He got…

There is so much good food in the DC area.

Yeah, that sounds to me like they’re keeping the digital content in the Compendium on the app but they’re planning on eventually making the app work offline. No PDF or anything like that for you to scroll through like a normal document. You wouldn’t actually own a digital copy of those rulebooks, just the right to…

Also, as someone else pointed out, you’re not getting a downloadable digital copy of the books when you pay for them in the app. You only have access to those books you paid for in the app itself.

I’m a beta user. I’m hoping they’ll make some substantial changes to some of the layout on the character sheet because right now, most of the class features for some classes are buried in a couple layers of drop-down boxes and mixed in with a bunch of stuff you don’t need to pay attention to after character creation…

Barnes and Noble currently has a buy 2, get 1 free offer on Marvel comics and a lot of them already have decent discounts before this sale deal. I estimate that all those discounts stacked together amount to about 50% off if you buy in multiples of three.

Barnes and Noble currently has a buy 2, get 1 free offer on Marvel comics and a lot of them already have decent…

This code has given me so much trouble. First, it kept giving me error messages when I tried to apply it. Then, it looked like it applied, and in the order confirmation the discount vanished, so I had to cancel the order and reorder it. Finally, I just discovered that despite an order confirmation that had the right…

This code has given me so much trouble. First, it kept giving me error messages when I tried to apply it. Then, it…

Update: after all that trouble and an e-mail confirmation that had the correct amount, the discount vanished when the item shipped and Amazon overcharged me.

Update: after all that trouble and an e-mail confirmation that had the correct amount, the discount vanished when…

These reviews are making me think this would have been better off as a TV show on some premium channel with a big special effects budget, where there would have been more time to play around with cool locations.

FYI, the books code is being finicky right now (probably something to do with all the traffic to the site). If it doesn’t work for you but your book purchase meets the terms and conditions, you may have to try refreshing the page and reentering the code a few times before it finally goes through. Then, make sure you…

FYI, the books code is being finicky right now (probably something to do with all the traffic to the site). If it…

I got in a stupid Facebook discussion with someone this weekend where he claimed the gender wage gap didn’t exist, I briefly explained that there are 3 different ways it plays out, he said statistics are meaningless, and I explained how good statistical analyses and scientific research works, and then he called me an…

Monstress volume 2 comes out July 11!

I get it, and it wasn’t too long ago I would have thought the same thing.

Ideally, of course, only guilty people go to prison. In reality, a lot of innocent people have been sent to prison for various reasons: biased jury, incorrect identification by witnesses, being in the wrong place at the wrong time. We know that these wrongful convictions happen because people have been exonerated by…