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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...

After a couple thousand posts, here's the current proposal, summarized in this comment by Keith "Kilo" Watt....

Moving the Hugo conversation here, if it wants to continue, because the previous Hugo thread has drifted and I'm minded...

You put on your V-suit and log in. You stand on a desolate plain. Before you rises a great pyramid,...

Here’s a new thread for talking about the new Avengers movie with spoilers and without ROT13 so people can read...

Ta-Nehisi Coates, last night: When nonviolence is preached as an attempt to evade the repercussions of political brutality, it betrays...

The previous thread is getting pretty full, and the conversation seems to want to continue. So let's just slide it...

This started when I got a splinter stuck under my thumbnail, and had to soak it in hot salt...

On sale today in hardcover and e-book. Excerpt here. Brief interview with the author here. Author website here. Our...

Jeet Heer, in the New Republic, on the crisis of the Hugo Awards. Yes, I just actually typed the words...

We've shut down comments in the previous iteration of this thread because they hit the four-digit limit. Everything there can...

This is a continuation of an earlier thread (now closed) about the Hugo nomination process and how it might be...

I've been thinking about voting systems lately, and Teresa has graciously allowed me this space to hash out some ideas...

Bruce Schneier (facts, nonfactual amusing facts, Schneier on Security) is going to host a front-page post and discussion here of...

(1) Black Gate reviewer Matthew David Surridge made the difficult decision to decline a Hugo nomination for Best Fan Writer,...

The ballot is here. It's not pretty. Other folks will have detailed comments and analysis, including lists of which finalists...

Throughout this long recent discussion, I've had a passage from The Left Hand of Darkness rattling around in my head....

I've been keeping an ear on the SF community's gossip, and I think the subject of this year's Hugo nominations...

I've had tendonitis in both shoulders for years, from two separate mishaps long ago. And like every practitioner of our...

One of my favorite news stories this week is a local one: IKEA Nederland has denied permission to play hide...

From a piece in the Washington Post, yesterday, "This is why it's impossible for the Kremlin to lie about Putin's...

I started reading Pratchett back when his books were merely funny. No, I tell a lie. They were funny and...

I imagine that lots of Making Light's regular readers also read John Scalzi's Whatever, so I don't link to posts...

I'm still quietly reeling from Leonard Nimoy's death on Friday. This isn't some excessive fangirl reaction, some indulgence in popular...

I feel like I should mark it on my calendar: four days ago, The New Yorker published The True History...

When I first got started in bookbinding, the person who inspired me the most was Thomas J Cobden-Sanderson. He was...

Just the other day I noted in the sidebar my bemusement that heated lettercolumn exchanges in the New York Review...

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter have been pandering to me expertly. (Humongous Spoiler Alert: if you don't want...

On sale today in hardcover and e-book. Excerpt here. Author website here. West Coast tour schedule here. (Making Light...

So every now and then someone asks me for a link to something nice, or expresses so much stress in...

Deb Chachra, engineer, teacher, sometime Making Light commenter, on what's wrong with the notion of "maker culture", and why she...

It's all but a tradition here on Making Light now: shortly after the launch of a Jo Walton book, we're...