By the way, as I write this it is Srinivasa Ramanujan's birthday (December 22). Ramanujan, as not-nearly-enough people know, was an am...

I want to start doing more blogging going forward, and less wasting time on media like Twitter (where I've recently joined the growing t...

I before E, Except after C, Or when sounded as A As in “neighbor” and “weigh”; Or in “counterfeit”, or in A word such as “foreign”; Or...

Silver Empire , the rising small publisher of some fine SFF titles (see my mini-reviews here  and here ), is embarking on an exciting new pr...

This is one of those questions that answers itself: nobody, obviously. The whole point of a "grassroots" movement is that it grows...

Schadenfreude! Oh, the Schadenfreude! Gatekeeping Is what WorldCon employed! Larry saw The Hugos were all devoid    Of any but       ...

Everyone’s saying today’s Supreme Court ruling   is a “narrow ruling”. It was 7-2 but they mean narrow in impact, tailored to the circumsta...