SF/F Eugene Fischer | 01 Aug 2009
The world today is a subtly changed place, full of mystery and curiosities. The tide of popular opinion waxes on strange shores: Long familiar things have mutated into nearly unrecognizable forms: But the most important change of the day? That would be this: What? You don’t see it? Understandable. Look closer: My friend and former [...]
YA Eugene Fischer | 20 Jul 2009
I am friends with a couple who just had their sixth and seventh children, premature twin boys that they just got to bring home. Preemies are tough, two of them are tougher, and the five kids they already had, ranging in age from 13 to 2, are a bit of a handful as well. So [...]
Blog &Books &Fiction Eugene Fischer | 13 Jul 2009
So I’m paying hosting costs for this site, right? I bought a domain name and everything. I should do something with it. Here’s what I’m doing right now: I’m in a bar, lurking in corners with my laptop and munching tiny hamburgers. Creepy and delicious! Even more exciting than what I’m doing right now: things [...]
Books Eugene Fischer | 07 Jul 2009
It has since been given new life under new ownership, but earlier this year it looked for a while like the magazine Realms of Fantasy was going to go under. I was sad to learn that SF was losing a short fiction market, in this case one that I had never read. I decided to [...]
Books Eugene Fischer | 06 May 2009
My friend Megan does capsule reviews of the books she reads every month, and whenever she does I think to myself, “Oh! That’s clever! I should do that.” And then I fail to keep track of all the books I read, and by the time Megan puts up her next set of reviews, I can’t [...]
Books Eugene Fischer | 30 Apr 2009
The cover of the mass market paperback of The Last Colony, the third novel in John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series: The cover of the just-released mass market paperback of Zoe’s Tale, the fourth novel in John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series, with an unfortunate detail highlighted: It seems that I am the first person [...]
Books Eugene Fischer | 28 Apr 2009
The winner of my poll on what book I already own I should read next was A Fire Upon The Deep, by Vernor Vinge. I will read this book soon, but it isn’t going to be the next book off the stack. The real winner is: none of the above. Kat has convinced me, in [...]
SF/F Eugene Fischer | 25 Apr 2009
It’s an incredibly strong year for the best novel Hugo. The nominees are Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother, Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book, John Scalzi’s Zoe’s Tale, Neal Stephenson’s Anathem, and Charles Stross’s Saturn’s Children. I’ve now read four of these five, and though I don’t know if I will be buying an Anticipation membership and [...]
Books Eugene Fischer | 23 Apr 2009
After a couple of weeks of lacking the attention span to finish a book, I find myself recovered and on something of a reading binge. In just the past few days I’ve read Jedediah Berry’s The Manual of Detection, Charles Stross’s Saturn’s Children, and Joanna Russ’s We Who Are About To…. I’m currently working my [...]
Books Eugene Fischer | 21 Apr 2009
This book was shelved in mystery, but it read to me more like a fantasy novel that used the tropes of detective stories as an endlessly malleable playground. The main character, Charles Unwin, is easily likeable, as he moves through the story hopelessly in over his head. The set pieces are beautiful, even haunting. I [...]
