Link salad!

Apologies for being quiet lately. My husband and I both caught a nasty stomach virus that's making its way around the area, and I lost several days to the ick. (Food and I still aren't on friendly terms.) Fortunately, we were fit enough at least to catch a terrific performance of Much Ado About Nothing yesterday by the L-R Playmakers, which perked us up a bit.

R.I.P. to Glen GoodKnight (1941-2010), the founder of an organization that's near and dear to me, The Mythopoeic Society. He won't be forgotten. My heart goes out to everyone who has been touched by this loss.

Happy early birthday wishes to actourdreams, coppervale, and st_crispins. May all three of you enjoy many happy returns of the day!

Reminder: If you'd like to receive a holiday card from me this December, please reply here. Thanks!


I have a few links to share:

• From Ryan Britt at Clarkesworld Magazine: "Sherlock Holmes and the Science Fiction of Deduction."


• Support Neil Gaiman's The Price!


• From New Scientist: "SF Books That Got Away."


• From Douglas Clegg and M.J. Rose at Borders Sci-Fi: "Gothic Unease."

This particular post at Historic LOLs cracked me up. What can I say?


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Librivox has been releasing some terrific new unabridged recordings in some of my favorite genres. In case anyone's interested, here are some of the latest available:
Science Fiction

The Flying Inn by G.K. Chesterton

The Hate Disease by Murray Leinster

Two Thousand Miles Below by Charles W. Diffin

"The World That Couldn't Be" by Clifford D. Simak
Fantasy

Eric Brighteyes by H. Rider Haggard

Lady into Fox by David Garnett

Gothic

The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Pocket Island by Charles Clark Munn

"The wild November come at last
Beneath a veil of rain;
The night winds blows its folds aside,
Her face is full of pain.
The latest of her race, she takes
The Autumn's vacant throne:
She has but one short moon to live,
And she must live alone."
- Richard Henry Stoddard, November