Necromancy Never Pays

When I read that John Scalzi's Fuzzy Nation was coming out, I had to find our copy of H. Beam Piper's The Fuzzy Papers so I could ...

Sometimes I bring in real, live authors (in person or via the internet) and give my class the chance to ask them questions. Oddly enough--o...

It's been a while since I made my way through a novel laughing out loud every 50 pages or so, making my family wonder what I was reading...

Some books I read, I don't want to talk about, usually because they aren't worth mentioning, but occasionally because they're so...

Scott Westerfeld ( scottwesterfeld.com ) has a recent post about beginnings, and SFP at Pages Turned has a recent post about endings. And t...

We never did find a substitute caterpillar for our visiting six-year-old. My response to his heartbreak over leaving it on our deck in the ...

I'm late to the Scalzi party--it's a good one, and I've been missing it! My friend who reads more SF than I do had what I consi...