Dead Joins Vampire Entourage

May 29 —

Best-selling fantasy author Charlaine Harris–whose Sookie Stackhouse novels are being adapted into the HBO series True Blood–told SCI FI Wire that Sookie’s latest adventure, All Together Dead, finds her in the entourage of the vampire Queen of Louisiana, who is traveling to a summit in the city of Rhodes.

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Chaos’ Children Fight The Gods

May 25 —

SF and fantasy author John C. Wright told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, Titans of Chaos, concludes his Chronicles of Chaos trilogy. “The tale concerns five orphans who are convinced that they are not human beings,” Wright said in an interview.

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Never Posits Einstein’s Machine

May 23 —

Multiple-award-winning author Tim Powers–whose latest novel, Three Days to Never, is a finalist for this year’s Locus Award–told SCI FI Wire that the book revolves around a time machine that Albert Einstein left in a garage in Pasadena, Calif.

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The All-Powerful Tivo Remote

The new air conditioner I just bought came with a little remote control, which I thought was cool, being an occasionally lazy sort of person who might just want to turn on/off the AC without having to get up. But much to my surprise, it seems I didn’t actually need the AC remote: My Tivo remote seems to control it as well. Or rather it turns it on and off when I press the “select” button. This isn’t a huge problem, since you don’t actually have to use the select button very often, but still mildly annoying.

Now if I could only get the AC to record stuff for me…

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I’m in UR zombie story, eatin UR brainz

A poster mysteriously named “Meow,” suggested a modest proposal after viewing my Grammar Hound post:

Who else thinks this calls for a LOLCAT slush bomb of FSF?

“He can has named Adam, and she can has named Eve.”

“I’m in UR zombie story, eatin UR brainz”

“Iz destoryed the evil emporerz. Now Iz eat tuna fish.”

 Please god, no. Don’t. Seriously. But that was funny.

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Execution Looks At Wars Ahead

May 14 —

Multiple-award-winning SF author Ken MacLeod told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, The Execution Channel, is set about a decade hence in a slightly alternate future in which the present wars have spread across the Middle East.

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