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  • My review: Cinder House, by Freya Marske

    I read this (epub) in two or three sittings on 12 May 2026. This novella is up for a 2026 Hugo Award. If you become a voting member, you can download the voters packet and read it yourself. Fairy tale retellings, especially the ones Disney has already done, are always a bit of a miss for me.…

  • Potential Energy – XKCD

    There is a concept in life that I find to be utterly underutilized and whenever it is represented in fiction (or XKCD) I am always inordinately excited. Mechanical systems can rely on many systems for power, but as this comic alludes, we generally use electricity or combustion-generated torque to make something move. Our whole modern…

  • My review of: Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz

    My review of: Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz

    I read this (epub) in two sittings on 11 May 2026. This novella is up for a 2026 Hugo Award. If you become a voting member, you can download the voters packet and read it yourself. The truest sign of a book I love is my desire to share it with other people. Sometimes this can be…

  • My review of: Murder by Memory, by Olivia Waite

    My review of: Murder by Memory, by Olivia Waite

    I read this (epub) in one sitting on 12 May 2026. This novella is up for a 2026 Hugo Award. If you become a voting member, you can download the voters packet and read it yourself. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and immediately wanted to send copies to other people who I thought would also…

  • What blog?

    I don’t kid myself to think I have any kind of audience, but anyone who stumbles into this site might wonder at the… 16 months since my last blog post, and the grand total of like 12 words published here. My day job involves being on a computer all day and at the then of…

  • Guilt or Pessimism?

    Maybe I’m just in a mood today, but this daily prompt is unlovely. I dwell on all the negatives in the past. Guilt and shame and regret. Rarely do I dwell on the good old days without feeling bad about where they went. When contemplating the future, I am frequently pessimistic. Sometimes I get excited…

  • The clothes make the (hu)man (pt 2)

    Okay, my first swing at this prompt devlolved into a screed about not letting your ideal writing conditions become an excuse for not writing, and I need to revisit and refine that post a bit, but also I recognize that I didn’t answer the question, really. I just did the edgy thing of rejecting it……

  • The clothes make the (hu)man (pt 1)

    There’s a line used in classist repression: “the clothes make the man.” Okay, maybe that is unfair, it is about more than repression. The idea is that a convincing wardrobe can do a lot for a person, make them feel better, and make them look better. Clothes can in fact make the difference in many…

  • You’ve Been Everywhere, I’ve Been Brokedown There

    This is the first time I’ve tried the daily prompt. No promises that this will be worth reading or that I’ll ever do it again. I commented on a friend’s post (linked below) that she skipped a few cities that I had heard her mention in the past. I realzied that was likely a deliberate…

  • New York Times Faces Quiz

    I consume a lot of online text news media. Most of it is via emailed newsletters (strongly recommend NYT’s ‘The Morning’). Sometimes these newsletters have pictures of people, and sometimes those pictures have captions telling you who they are. Once a year, the New York Times does a faces quiz, to see if you can…

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