Flogging Babel

 . "Because It's There" by Susan Shwartz  combines two story types, one of which I like and the other that I loathe. The one I...

 . Christmas Eve is a terrible time to be injecting a commercial into the flood of messages of goodwill. But Open Road Media , which publish...

 . Manger Animals               There is a legend that on Christmas Eve the animals can talk.   Yet of all the many...

 . Look at that beautiful cover! It seems that The Iron Dragon's Daughter is back in print again--this time, in Ukraine. I can hardly te...

 . Every December, shortly before Christmas I post the following parable. It says a lot, I think, about my neighborhood, and possibly about ...

. John Varley died two days ago on December 10, 2025.  A great many will mourn him as a science fiction writer whose work they enjoyed. But...

 .% This begins an occasional-at-best series of brief introductions to books I could but almost certainly won't ever write. Enjoy! Intro...