Making Light

I know it's been a few days since it was requested, but here's a SPOILER thread for Bujold's latest installment...

It knows its systems and its systems know it. I've spent the last two days in all-day work meetings, for...

On sale today in hardcover and e-book. Excerpt here. Author website here. Public launch event (tonight!) here. Author tour...

Updated, 20 Jan, 4:00 AM, to add: I wrote this on the evening of Tuesday, January 19, but held off...

I’ve been dithering for a while now over posting here about Hamilton, the smash Broadway musical rap hit about the...

So Avram and I were going back and forth on Twitter last night, playing with Hamilton and Lord of the...

You know the sheriff's got his problems too....

Luke 2:1-14, Anglo-Saxon (via): Soþlice on þam dagum wæs geworden gebod fram þam casere Augusto, þæt eall ymbehwyrft wære tomearcod....

Chewie, we're discussing the film where people who haven't seen it aren't present. Nota bene: the gnomes have an office...

So I understand from Twitter that this is some kind of travel program about New York, including sections filmed in...

The wise, kind, and much-missed Mike Ford wrote this in the wake of Katrina; I'd urge you to read it...

I don't have anything new and useful to say about this, or about the attacks in Beirut and Baghdad that...

Two news stories this morning were accompanied by photos that made me stop dead and say "No, that's not it...

From The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester by George Ormerod. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, and...

One of the pleasures of Ann Leckie's Ancillary series is running across the small songs that Breq, the main character,...

The soft clink of container against flask and the quiet slosh of liquid woke me quickly and completely. No ancillary,...

This splendid piece of late-medieval woodcarving by Tilman Riemenschneider shows the Fourteen Holy Helpers, also known as the Viersehn Heilegen...

Arthur Chu interviewed medievalist and journalist David Perry on TechCrunch: Perry: [W]hen I hear people talk about Nordic fantasy as...

I joined the Roman Catholic Church in 1989†. The parish where I was baptized was known at the time for...

Larry Smith has sold SF and fantasy books at more conventions than some of us have had hot meals. At...

On sale today in hardcover and e-book. Excerpt here. Author website here. Bookstore appearances (with tacos!) here. (Making Light...

This morning's Guardian has an editorial about the sudden turnaround in British public opinion regarding the need to help Syrian...

(... and fantasy). So here's a thread for what you're reading, watching, and listening to these days, and what you...

The previous iteration of this thread was getting too long, so here's a new space to keep adding them....

@BruceHolsinger, well-regarded historian and author of a couple of excellent mysteries starring John Gower, enlivened the day by inventing the...

So as anyone who follows me on Twitter knows, I've been on a four-day bike ride around the IJsselmeer, the...

It’s been a while since I’ve fallen for a TV show this hard. Steven Universe, now in its second...

So I slept through the awards, having stayed up too late reading (!). But per the Hugo PDF and supplementary...

Sarah Hoyt: MOST of the editors [in the SF field] came from families where ALL generations had gone to college...

Cath, of her kindness, has been doing the yeoman work of organizing two Gatherings of Light at Sasquan. This is...

On sale today in hardcover and ebook in North America, and on August 13 in trade paperback and ebook...

Go, gather photons. Seek, and you will find. Go pluck them where they hang from bowing trees And cast a...

You might think that. I couldn't possibly comment....

As requested, a space where folks can discuss Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities without having to mask or avoid spoilers....

He said, "Kid, whadja get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and pick up the...

I know there's not really that much to spoil in The Philosopher Kings, but in the unlikely event that revealing...

On sale yesterday in hardcover and ebook in North America, on August 6 in ebook in the UK and...

Held: The Fourteenth Amendment requires a State to license a marriage between two people of the same sex and to...

From the New York Times, 24 June 2015: COLUMBIA, S.C. -- It has been quite a few years since the...

After over 3000 messages and nearly two and half months of discussions, we have put together a simple Hugo Award...

Now that the proposal has been submitted, we can turn our attention to the other matters that we need to...

It's been almost a fortnight since my front brake cable snapped as I cycled behind Centraal Station in the busiest...

In the current Open Thread, Tom Whitmore announced: I'm very sad to report that Bruce Durocher, sometime member of this...

A while back, an Italian cooking blog, Il dolci di Caia, ran a contest for fellow Italian food bloggers: come...

In this thread we will hammer out the formal language of the proposal, any FAQs we wish to include, and...

Sasquan tells me that the Hugo packet can be downloaded (pin lookup here.) So if you haven't gone looking for...

This is the thread where the comments do their own stunts instead of relying on ROT-13. They're badass and full...

If you like science fiction and comics, you should be aware that C Spike Trotman — creator of the webcomic...

So we were watching "The Princess Bride" last night. It falls down in a few places: when Westley threatens to...

A lot of the conversations we've been having in recent Dysfunctional Families threads have been around a closely-linked set of...