My Kindle titles are all free today (and some of them tomorrow): Invocation (Critical Documents 2013): a slightly massive contemporary fa...

So I continue to ponder Cory Doctorow's Whuffie, Charles Stross's fast/medium/slow money, and other exotic speculative currency . ...

I always base my decisions about where to put WorldCon on wherever according to my preconceptions has the most reindeer nearby and possibly ...

I think like a lot of us out there, I have been returning to the Discworld in quite a big way. I had one little thought about how Terry P...

There's a  fantastically involved thread over at Making Light  about voting systems and the Hugo Awards. I've skimmed the conversa...

Two distinct ways of relating to diabolic power map onto two distinct economic logics which prevailed in early modern Europe, gift exchange ...

If anybody has any books to donate (who wants to give books AWAY??), I'm working on an African/African American Free Library on my campu...

From a work-in-progress, although really it's something that's been stuck at about 65%-finished for about five years, which I have n...

I won't get round to doing a proper fanfare post to my nomination ruminations, but here's a sequence of rapid parps. Maybe I'll...

(Some spoilers). A sleazy, glamorous near-future science fiction thriller, weaving an ensemble narrative about a conspiracy to breed a ...