So, we’ve had blogs and the intarwebs for some time now, but it still feels a bit like the wild-west frontier at times. It’s fun to see people exploring the medium, trying to find new ways to connect, or just make a buck.
In an interview with …
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From the Frequently Asked Questions section of a fan web site for the His Dark Materials series:
So that’s it. The fact that all three titles refer to an artifact is no more than a coincidence, though it does make a nice pattern. Before I’d …
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Still working through a batch of comics I picked up at the library recently...
Back when I had a regular "pull" at the local comic shop (roughly three cities ago), The Authority frequently caught my eye. But I could never figure …
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I picked up a bunch of comics at the library the other day, and read through a bunch of them yesterday.
I used to really like the X-Men (Claremont era, the Evolution cartoon, etc.), and have been on a Whedon kick lately …
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Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process--taking a requirement and producing working, maintainable code that …
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Everway is another forgotten game, a casualty of trying to bring innovation to the mainstream market (I could say it was something else, but I'd be lying). Produced by Wizards of the Coast before they bought TSR/D&D, Everway was meant to be a joining …
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The Shadow of Yesterday is pulpy romantic sword-and-sorcery at the end of one world and the beginning of the next. This game melds the best of standard fantasy role-playing and a hard-charging narrative engine. The revised version of this game …
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Kay's thoroughly excellent new novel resembles his Song for Arbonne (1992) in that there is no magic in it. Instead, Kay deftly and intelligently bends history at a slightly different angle. The setting is a variant early medieval Spain whose Muslims …
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Hi! I'm Joshua Wehner, and this is my blog.
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