Via paulcornell2 , a Barry Letts tribute song :

One of the perks of having a Worldcon membership is I get to nominate and vote in the 2010 Hugos. But I'm not really up to speed with the Latest In SciFi. So I want to try and start catching up now and hopefully I'll have a decent spread of reading/watching done by the time nominations close next year. So, what do you guys recommend, for scifi-ish stuff being made/published in 2009? Feel free to promote...

Paul Cornell just posted his recommendations for comics . Originally posted on his LJ, paulcornell2  , and cross-posted here with permission. I'm just putting the list up, the post itself includes commentary and comments and his blog is just generally worth taking a look at so I encourage you to wander over there as well. EDIT: Well, crap. I keep messing up the lj-cut and can't figure out...

this morning i went back over what i wrote yesterday evening about the booker prize and corrected any bits that really didn't make any sense. it seemed a little rich of me to be complaining about abuse of the english language in such a form. once again, i am considering doing what everyone else did after the internet became an every day thing, rather than an amazing scientific marvel, and composing...

So, as threatened, I showed up green this past Saturday at Wizard's Chicago Comic Con. Here's an overview. I've had a long fannish association with the LoSH, beginning with my first round of comic readership in the 70's. My earliest recalled stories include reprints, I think, of early 'Adventure' backup strips, as well as full-blown stories in 'Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes', such as...

but first a quick detour, because m15m is back to summarise half blood prince in an amusing way. BABYFACE TOM RIDDLE: Can you only split the soul once? I mean, wouldn't seven plot points be a lot harder to track down? SLUGHORN: Seven? My GOD, Tom, they'll have to split the last book into two movies at that rate! BABYFACE TOM RIDDLE: But could it be done? SLUGHORN: Well, I mean, sure, but you'd...

In possibly the fastest-ever reversal on a comic book I’ve ever experienced, X-MEN FOREVER #2 put me off reading the series entirely. I’ll probably pick it up in (softcover) trade, but wow, I’ve never gone from really quite eager to read a series to dropping it that fast. There’s no continuity between 1 & 2. They skipped a huge chunk of action, which we will presumably learn As The Story Plays Out...

--is in Word magazine! So check it out!

MI-13 has been canceled! Woohoo! I don't think I ever said much on the subject, but Captain Britain and MI-13 is a book I have an unnatural hatred towards. It's not an obsessive hatred, but whenever I see the book mentioned, I mutter a silent curse. Why would I have such strong hatred? Spitfire. Paul Cornell was given a blond, Golden Age, immortal, speedster heroine...four of my favorite traits...

hey - i think... yes, literally nobody else will care about this, but paulcornell2 (writer of such episodes as father's day and human nature) mentioned on his blog today that he's reading a book by adam roberts :D who used to... well, teach me creative writing is perhaps a bit strong - be in the room whilst i was supposedly learning how to write better. terribly funny and engaging, but pants...