The Android's Dream by John Scalzi, In Her Majesty's Service by Naomi Novik (first 3-book volume of a 7-book series), Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, Childhood's End by Arthur Clarke (no relation to Susanna), Pirate Curse by Kai Meyer, an absolutely terrible book by Poul Anderson (can't even remember the title), and I can't remember the 8th off the top of my head.

That's quite a collection. I haven't picked up an Arthur C Clarke novel since I read through the Rama series. I recently ploughed through a whole load of Philip K Dick's short stories. 'Second Variety' was a favourite due to the similarities with the Terminator films. The post-apocalyptic setting, war against sentient machines etc. I'll certainly take a look at these authors.

Most of them came from recommendations during a writers' panel at a con in February. Also, the 8th was The Coincidence Engine by Sam Leith. That's shaping up to be a good one so far.

I took a quick look at Vernor Vinge and he seems to be quite similar to Iain M. Banks. Very detailed,but not so detailed you get bored and bogged down. I highly recommend The Algebraist by him if you haven't already tried it.

I handmade the leather bracelet (which reads Symbios, and has gears riveted to it). The chain mail flower is handmade as well, but not by me. Same for the leather corset. Everything else is store bought or repurposed from other costumes.

And what blaster are you talking about? (*casually hides blaster in a nearby flower pot*). I have no blaster.

It might have been the handheld version of my bombastic eviscerator; though if you'd have put it in a flower pot, the flowers would have mutated and devoured the city by now.

in the processing queue. hopefully it will soon be released into the wilds of the site.

I saw that. It is problematic. Not sure what the problem is. Have you alerted Smith to the problem?

I videoed everything, Steve. EVERYTHING! Bwahahaha. But actually, no. I skipped that ball to attend the Beyond the Thunderdome game show & Yule Ball instead.

Thank you!

Thanks!

Thank you!

Well, distort, now you make me happy that I don't get BBC America. I was beginning to worry because the minimal plan I have has a free Doctor Who advertising channel that just runs the same ad for the show over and over again. I think their strategery is to make us think we a stuck in a time loop and can only escape by upgrading. I realize now that I can just wait for it to come to Netflix. Luckily that is only $10 a month and not $150. Meanwhile, I can watch all the South Park, Futurama, and Tripping the Rift episodes I can possibly stand on Wii Netflix, or I could always catch some TV Rassling on Syfy. Being Well? Not for long if I keep this up. I think I'll peck on my lap top in the other room.

I loved the episode. I thought it was inventive. We haven't seen enemies-that-we-forget-as-soon-as-we-look-away before. Had me on the edge of my seat the whole time from the minute the doctor said he was 200 years older than he was 2 months ago. Also, totally called amy's thing (no spoilers here...) and glad to see River Song back.

I thought the oval office scene was the best. "he's just brought a box with three of this friends into the oval office unseen. Maybe we should give him 5 minutes." sound advice.

I have mixed feelings...was really interesting, with the aliens and the asyronaught....but lacked something special...it lacked a single answer or a big question, it was just full of little ones and nothing makes sense.....hope part 2 works everything out, because some information given was very interesting for the rest of the series.

Saturday evening seems so far away from Wednesday morning, and I won't even get to watch part 2 until Sunday afternoon. Going to have to ignore twitter, Facebook, and MOS on Saturday evening to avoid spoilers.

it's done. Srsly.

Where is it posted. Come on, let us see it.

It's on the blogs, Steve. It's called 3 sides to every story.