by Katherine Villyard | Dec 15, 2004 | reading
A Wizard of Earthsea was the first SF/F I ever read, and if I hadn’t enjoyed it I probably wouldn’t be here. I read and loved the entire trilogy, but was particularly fond of The Tombs of Atuan, which had a wonderfully creepy, anthropologically fascinating...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 18, 2004 | reading, scripts, short fiction
I got several funny pages done on the movie script. Hooray! On the other hand, I read a bit of draft for the nightmare story I wrote last week, and it is the suck. Not first draft suck, either. Worse. Woe. Ah well, this is the whole reason to have multiple projects in...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 2, 2004 | reading
Someone on Broad Universe pointed out the Tiptree short list today. Ooh, online fic! Read at desk when I should have been doing printer maintenance! (Not really, you know. The computer lab was using that printer, and the only thing wrong with it was a nasty squeak....
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 14, 2004 | geekiness, life, the universe, and everything, reading
Last night I stalked a Treo on ebay. I want one very badly to replace the Palm III that died recently, but I don’t want to pay $400 for a new one. I didn’t bid until the last three minutes, because I hate to announce my presence to the other bidders and...
by Katherine Villyard | Feb 1, 2004 | reading
Naomi Kritzer, The Devil’s Mailbox And on that note, I’m off to resubmit. 🙂
by Katherine Villyard | Jan 19, 2004 | life, the universe, and everything, reading
My mother-in-law had a copy of Neuromancer, so I picked it up and read it while I was hennaing my hair today. The beginning really suffers from all of the people imitating it over the years, but it picks up. Pretty cool. 20 paws and an ethernet cable up. 😉 Tonight the...
by Katherine Villyard | Jan 15, 2004 | reading
Racoona Sheldon, The Screwfly Solution James Tiptree, Jr., The Women Men Don’t See Joanna Russ, When it Changed Tim Pratt, Little Gods Okay, I actually read Joanna Russ’ story in a college science fiction course and reread it recently. I still enjoy it as...