To atone for my absence, another post…
Saw this notice, via Jeff VanderMeer’s blog, apparently there’s a new Steampunk anthology coming out from Solaris books.
Steampunk for me is like the little genre I never knew I loved. Earlier this year I started coming across a lot of steampunk contraptions, including this amazing and beautiful music box laptop. Then I started reading some of the Dr. Black stories by Brendan Connell, and what do you know, I’m a full blown enthusiast of the genre…
UPDATE:
Damn you Boing Boing, I should just set up a redirect of my url to your site, for all the stuff that I write about, you trump me ten-fold. Really, I write about steampunk, you come up with a steampunk gift guide…
Seriously though, much love to Boing Boing for making my workdays more tolerable… 
This popped up in one of my google home page widget thingies today. I love Douglas Adams. I love space. There you go…
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-
bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the
road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
- Douglas Adams
One more little post from work today… this is International Blog Against Racism Week, and I’ve been reading with some interest the various talk around the predominantly lily-white world of science fiction/fantasy… this isn’t a new issue for sure, but an article about Readercon in the Boston Globe has picked up the conversation about it.
David Anthony Durham (who was also interviewed in the Globe article) has also been discussing it quite a bit (see links to on-going discussions here). Check out his new book Acacia as well, which has fomented some of the buzz. Hear him talk about it in the Dragonpage podcast also.
These are important issues for the genre and it’s good to see things discussed that might make people uncomfortable but are quite necessary.
