Scottish author, Richard Gordon died Feb. 7 of a heart attack after collapsing at the Lianhua Road Subway Station in Shanghai, China. And, although I’m not familiar with his work, doing a bit of research to write this story, I came up with some very interesting things.
According to SFScope.com, Gordon mostly wrote under the pseudonyms [...]
Merlin Entertainment Group is running field trials of a new technology at Legoland near Munich in Germany. This new gadget is a novel, a low-radiation, tracking device designed by Israeli company KeepMClose to help parents keep track of their kids at the amusement park.
For a more in-depth story about this gadget on the go, read [...]
Erg! Today I was going to work on an announcement on the changes I’m making to The Genre Traveler, but instead spent the day regaining control of the website.
Someone hacked into it starting yesterday and locked me out by this morning. I discovered it this afternoon.
Anyway, things are pretty much back to the way they [...]
I’m sad to say that Terry Pratchett, who has transported me to the wonderful Disc World (which flies through space on some elephants and the great space Turtle A’tuan) and kept me in laughter and silly giggles for more than a decade, has announced that he has a rare form of early Alzheimer’s disease.
You can [...]
Once upon a time, I lived in Southern California, and it was good.
Then I got married, moved to Northern California. Moved to Florida. Moved to Texas. Moved to Arizona. Moved to Maryland. And then moved back to Southern California.
Well, I’ve been here a year and it is now time to pick up my Tarot cards [...]
Wow. I’m so sorry for not posting for the past week or so. I’ve been insanely busy and last week I didn’t feel so well because of all the smoke from the fires near L.A. It’s amazing how much an intensely sore throat can wear you out. Anyway, here are a bunch of things coming [...]
What is it about Las Vegas that seems to have me come home with the flu? Maybe I got it from SpongeBob Square Pants. You think? Well, I’m filling myself up with Airbourne and resting, but sheesh. Anyway, enough about me.
Here are few things I thought you’d be interested in:
The British Fantasy Society has begun [...]
Inside the October 2007 issue — the 2-Year Anniversary issue — you’ll find:
An interview with the Goth rock band The Last Dance
The fashions of Kristi Smart
The comics of Jon Hastings
A special visit to The Vaults in Scotland
And so much more
The issue is available in both PDF and HTML formats, but for all the photos you’ll [...]
This weekend, at Nippon2007, the 65th Worldcon, in Yokohama, Japan, it was officially announced that the 67th World Science Fiction Convention (or WorldCon) will be held in Montreal, Quebec, at the Palais des congrès de Montréal from Aug. 6- 10, 2009. The guest of honor will be Neil Gaiman (The Sandman: Book of Dreams, Good [...]
Always wanted to visit Italy but just haven’t been able to get there? Well the next best thing will be available for your computer next month.
“AnaCapri: The Dream”, a unique first person adventure game for the PC, uses more than 8,000 detailed photographs taken around the real island of Capri and its charming village of [...]
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