Jens Deffner of Unreality SF approached me recently to participate in a round-table discussion/interview about the new Star Trek film and Pocket Books’ reaction to the film, both this year and into next year when they have a series of four sequels to the film on the schedule. Entitled Trek XI: Did the books missContinue reading “On a New Trek Literature Discussion”
Author Archives: Allyn
On Candy Bar Consumption
My “blood chocolate content” had fallen to a precipitously low level. This called for a trip to the vending machine on the third floor. For reasons that pass beyond my understanding, while the vending machines in the third floor breakroom and the sixth floor breakroom are stocked by the exact same company and contain theContinue reading “On Candy Bar Consumption”
On Lucky ‘Net Finds
It’s awesome the things you can find on the ‘net. I’ve found a recording of Elbow’s show in DC on Tuesday night. And it sounds fantastic. It was recorded from the balcony, about twenty feet behind and fifteen feet up from where I was. The only quibble I have thus far is that “Mirrorball” cutsContinue reading “On Lucky ‘Net Finds”
On a Letter of Rejection
I received this weekend the nicest rejection letter from the UK. At Shore Leave, I told several people that I took a chance on submitting an outline to a UK publisher for an original novel based on Merlin, the BBC series currently showing on NBC here. Yes, it was unsolicited. Yes, I wasn’t sure whatContinue reading “On a Letter of Rejection”
On the Lantern Corps
So, DC Comics has this event going, Blackest Night. It’s a Green Lantern crossover, involving all sorts of different Lantern Corps — Green Lanterns and Yellow Lanterns and Red Lanterns and Blue Lanterns. And zombie Black Lanterns. I don’t know what’s going on. I haven’t bought the first issue, but it’s out on the standsContinue reading “On the Lantern Corps”
On Carl Sagan and Policy Debates
Eric Michael Johnson of The Primate Diaries posted a few days ago an article on Carl Sagan’s theory of Nuclear Winter and the political reaction to it in the early 1980s. Okay, okay, yes, I will admit that Sagan was not the only person involved in the Nuclear Winter theory, that being the idea thatContinue reading “On Carl Sagan and Policy Debates”
On Seeing It In The Wild
After a few days of not blogging, mostly because I’ve been both tired and busy, not necessarily in that order, I went out to Borders. And there I saw something that made me very happy. Star Trek Magazine #20. The cover has Jean-Luc Picard, with a Borg drone loomed in the background. A light blueContinue reading “On Seeing It In The Wild”
On an Album of George Harrison Covers
Monday morning, I was in a George Harrison mood. As anyone who’s known me for at least fifteen minutes knows, I am a Beatles fan. I’ve often said I couldn’t not be a Beatles fan; on the day I was born, George Harrison’s “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth”) was the #1 songContinue reading “On an Album of George Harrison Covers”
On Fake Birth Certificates
My Kenyan birth certificate… Get your own Kenyan Birth Certificate. 🙂
On Mid-Afternoon Meme-age
Some meme-age, stolen from Keith, because I quite honestly have nothing better to do at the moment. I’m not trying for witty or informative. Just the facts. Like Dragnet. 1. What bill do you hate paying the most? Any. All. I accept them. I don’t like them. 2. Where was the last place you hadContinue reading “On Mid-Afternoon Meme-age”