The Fuse by Anthony Johnson and Justin Greenwood Just a great bit of sci-fi crime action. Not quite dark enough to really call it a noir, more of a science fiction procedural, well written, and hitting all the right notes for both. Check it out. First couple of arcs are collected up by Image. Recommended. ... more

Presto!: How I Made over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales by Penn Jillette Penn and Teller have always sort of been around, they show up as guests on TV shows and movies, both great and not so great (Babylon 5, Hackers, multitudes of their own specials). And they were the magic act that managed to ... more

So, the library ganked all of my plans for what I was going to read next. ... more

Grrrs: Habitica continues to rock as a motivator. Getting into a writing groove. Getting some good numbers most days. Have found a way to keep track of my notes on stories. PT helping the foot pain. Keeping on track for a book a week for the year. New TV rocks. ARRRGS: Lost or misplaced a ... more

FBP-The Federal Bureau of Physics by Simon Oliver and Robbi Rodriguez Strange book about pocket universes and the laws of physics failing. The world is being ripped apart by reality storms and gravity failing left and right. To attempt to combat this the Federal Bureau of Physics (FBP) was created. But (you saw that coming, right), things ... more

Still loving on Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone. There is something about a modern influenced epic fantasy setting that I love, might be that I have a project set in a similar type of location. I think of these locations as places where magic rather than (or in addition to) technology has driven things like the ... more

Writing Excuses is both shorter and more dense than most other writing craft related podcasts. They shoot to be 15 minutes long (their tagline is: “Fifteen minutes long, because you are in a hurry, and we are not that smart”) and with four hosts they pack a ton into each episode. They pack a bunch of ... more

When he walks in, all the lights dim. And even though we banned smoking before Pompeii gave up the ghost, the room is all is thick with cigarette smoke. The band starts playing in all black and white. Dames start crawling out of the woodwork. Dames with gams from here till next week, even though no ... more

I have had a number of people recommend this and heard the author talk a bit about it last year at GenCon. But, a fantasy world where magic and law are intertwined to the point where you go a wizard for contracts and necromancers work in firms? A number of those pieces feel like they ... more