Ru Emerson was born in 1944 and is the author of twenty-three novels, including the Nedao trilogy, the six-volume Night-Threads series, media tie-in novels based on Xena: Warrior Princess, and (as Roberta Cray) The Sword and the Lion. Emerson’s first novel, Princess of Flames came out in 1986, I bought it the moment I saw …
September 2011 archive
Abstract Art
I’m not sure if I’m a complete philistine or a bit too much of a realist. But when discussing abstract art recently I had to say that I had little or no appreciation for it. That black canvas with a small white triangle in the lower left corner, the work entitled Consideration of Infinity. And …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – RICK RAPHAEL
Rick Raphael was born in 1919 and died in 1994. He wrote only a small amount of work but it’s quality and much of it is both clever and amusing. It’s surprising to note just how many older SF writers had a very wide spread of occupations – either that or unusual ones. They may …
Hawk and Hare.
I headed out on my electric scooter yesterday, a quick trip to the shops, and as I passed my hay paddock a movement caught my eyes. There was a young hare running for his life, while behind him about ten feet up and to the rear cruised a hawk in hungry pursuit. The hawk wasn’t …
Story Due Out
Another theme anthology has accepted one of my stories. Halloween Hell-o-ween from http://WhortleberryPress.com will be out very shortly and can be purchased from that site. It contains my ghost tale, Neither Brick Nor Stone.
WIZARDS AND WANDERERS by Crystalwizard, Published Cyberwizard productions. Softcover. Book 3 of the Sojourn Chronicles.
reviewed by Lyn McConchie. I’ve been reading this series for a couple of years now and I’m looking forward to finding the cash to buy the next ones available in the series. The story is basically a quest stretching over a several years road trip with those involved travelling towards the quest’s achievement. Dale is …
VILLENSPELL: CITY OF WIZARDS by Crystalwizard, published Cyberwizard Productions, softcover. 2nd in the Sojourn series.
reviewed by Lyn McConchie. some time back I purchased “Wizard’s Bane,†the first in this six book series. After that I was very busy revising several of my own books, but with those out of the way I discovered that the next two in the series were available. So I bought them. This on its …
HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED – JANET KAGAN?
Author Janet Kagan died 29 February 2008 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease after a long illness. Born in 1946, she was 63 years old and so far as I can tell from various sources, she’d been ill for much of her life. She started her career by writing a fake ad (Analog in 1982,) then …
Work in new anthology
just had a fast email from Christopher Ficco, editor of RuneWright,(Publishing) to say that his theme anthology, Spirit Legends: Of Ghosts and Gods, will be out any day now. Copies available on www.RuneWright.com and www.Amazon.com. I have a story in this and I’m looking forward to seeing my copies since this is the first time …
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Hail!
13 September 2011
and it did, on and off all yesterday. I’m not actually complaining since with that and showers we’ve had about 30mls of wet on the ground in the last 48 hours and we needed it. The hail did no damage – although the bombarded hens were annoyed – and, most conveniently the hail stopped for …
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