Doctor Who: season 7

Here be Pertwee. A brave new world of colour and extremely short skirts.

( Season 7 - our thorts )

( Ranking )

altariel: I have always liked this season, and it did not disappoint. Apart from the bad bits of 'Inferno'.
mraltariel: The many bad bits. It's striking just how much it is like 'Web of Fear', 'The Invasion', and 'The War Games', and how obviously absent all those Hartnell throwback filler stories like 'The Krotons' and 'The Dominators' are. This is what happens when you halve the number of episodes per season, and it really benefits from it.
altariel: Thank you Barry Letts.
mraltariel: Even if you only inherited these stories and directed the crap one.
altariel: And not for 'The Sevenfold Crown'.
mraltariel: But thank you anyway.
altariel: That sounds a bit bad.
mraltariel: But we mean it in a good way.

Le Guin's upcoming birthday

Originally posted on wiscon:

Email from Vonda N. McIntyre:

"Hi everybody,

Ursula K. Le Guin's 80th birthday is on 21 October 2009 and I'm going to post a Happy Birthday Ursula message on my website and my blogs that day, and I think I have some other folks talked into doing the same.

I just thought it might be fun if a lot of websites and blogs wished her Happy Birthday. (It's also the 40th anniversary of Left Hand of Darkness.) Her website is www.ursulakleguin.com (the actual content begins on http://www.ursulakleguin.com/UKL_info.html)"

Make a note of this, and feel free to repost to your own blog.

Net smartz, U R doing dem rite

Eoin Colfer joins campaign to stop him writing Hitchhiker sequel.

What I really like about this story is that partway through, he realized he was making a terrible terrible mistake, and then pulled it back to make the interwebz work for him. Good man. Still not likely to read it, though.

Fic rec

Librarians, archivists, historians, storytellers: don't miss the_wild_iris's beautiful Earthsea fic Keepers.

Conflicts: author line-up

All my posts are happening on the same day. Sorry about that. Anyway, here is the author line-up for Conflicts, a new anthology from those fine people at NewCon Press, due to be launched at next year's Eastercon.

Psi.Copath – Andy Remic
The Maker’s Mark – Michael Cobley
Sussed – Keith Brooke
The Cuisinart Effect – Neal Asher
Harmony in My Head – Rosanne Rabinowitz
Our Land – Chris Beckett
Fallout – Gareth L. Powell
Proper Little Soldier – Martin McGrath
War Without End – Una McCormack
Dissimulation Procedure – Eric Brown
In the Long Run – David L. Clements
Last Orders – Jim Mortimore
Songbirds – Martin Sketchley

I'll post a link to the cover as soon as it's available.