- Are You Riled Up? - (Free subscription) | yesterday
Athletes from Hamilton … Scott Howes notches game-winner early in third, Victoria defeats Ontario 2-1 (OurSports Central). Submitted by admin on November 28, 2009 - 2:26am. Victoria, BC - In a Friday night matchup the Victoria Salmon Kings and Ontario Reign met in the first of a two-game set at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre. Victoria’s [...]
Unhyphenated American (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Read so far: 1. The Warrior's Apprentice by LM Bujold 2. Hart's Hope by Orson Scott Card [x] [L] 3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling (audio) 4. A Talent for War by Jack McDevitt 5. Persuasion by Jane Austen [x] 6. Inkheart by Cornelia Funke [x] 7. Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen (audio) 8. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman [x] 9. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Saramago Flowers in the Attic - V.C. Andrews Dead to the World - Charlaine Harris Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card City of Glass - Cassandra Clare Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | yesterday
... "Soviet Union" instead of "Russian Federation", but it's a little sad to read Orson Scott Card saying that Russian Spring is "almost certain to be the book of the year" given that the book looked obsolete before the year was out. Here's the F&SF review from Orson Scott Card's website site if you want to read it. I'll just quote the most...
James Maxey - The Prophet and the Dragon (Free subscription) | yesterday
... short story. It's called "Return to Sender," and it will be appearing this January at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show . I've been working on a rewrite this weekend. Edmund Shubert, the editor, made some suggestions on taking the story to the next level of polish, and I've learned to appreciate his instincts, after the success of my prior IGMS stories, "To...
The Red Brick Store (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
For the first time in its ten-year history, Irreantum magazine has nominated work to be considered for a Pushcart Prize. This year’s nominees are: Fiction: Cara Diaconoff, “I’ll Be a Stranger to You,” Vol. 10 No. 2 Orson Scott Card, “The Elephants of Poznan,” Vol. 11 Nos. 1 & 2 Darin Cozzens, “The Treading of Lesser Cattle,” Vol. 11...
Aliya Whiteley and Neil Ayres (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
I'm currently reading a collection of Patricia Highsmith's short stories, which is very entertaining. But part of me has begun to wonder what I'm getting out of it any more. Am I instructing my subconscious to pick up another writer's tricks? Is that what all we writers do when we read? Are we innovators or impersonators? I'm reminded of an Orson Scott Card short story in which all the...
Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Orson Scott Card fans will want to get their grubby little hands on THE AUTHORIZED ENDER COMPANION by Jake Black, author of some of the Marvel Comics ENDER issues. The book is a complete, in-depth encyclopedia of all the persons, places, things and events in the Ender Universe, including character biographies, time-lines, colony histories, and [...]
Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Orson Scott Card fans will want to get their grubby little hands on THE AUTHORIZED ENDER COMPANION by Jake Black, author of some of the Marvel Comics ENDER issues. The book is a complete, in-depth encyclopedia of all the persons, places, things and events in the Ender Universe, including character biographies, time-lines, colony histories, and [...]
