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I really, really love Agatha Christie’s Poirot. He is the one detective, besides Sherlock Holmes, that I remember reading as a kid. And re-reading years later (and continuing to read even when I would remember who had done half way through). Peter Ustinov was the first Poirot I watched on TV; I think I might […]
Read More The End is Near: PoirotSomething about October and autumn that makes me want to stay in every night, make apple pie and tea, and watch old movies. This year it occurs to me to watch some that I have never seen before. This is the first one.
Read More Tonight’s movie: The Awful Truth (1937)Lightspeed Magazine has published “August Prima”, the short story which won an Honorable Mention in the short form at the 2013 SF&F Translation Awards online for free. You can find it here. Karin Tidbeck, the Swedish author who wrote it, is also featured in the magazine’s Author Spotlight. GO read that and then the rest […]
Read More Karin Tidbeck’s “August Prima” onlineThe Man Booker prize, awarded for fiction in English, was won yesterday by the Canadian born New Zealand author, Eleanor Catton, for her novel The Luminaries. It has nothing to do with science fiction, but has found its way to my blog nonetheless. For three reasons: New Zealand was one of the countries I visited […]
Read More Eleanor Catton wins Man Booker PrizeIt is that time of the year – time to start another GUFF race! The 2014 race is northbound, meaning that the winning candidates will be traveling from Australia or New Zealand to Europe. Since the venerable Mr. Worldcon is also traveling to Europe that summer, the GUFF delegate will simply have to skip Satellite […]
Read More FHere we go again: GUFF call for nominations!