August 11, 2015

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Book Review: The End of All Things (Old Man's War Book 6)

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Today marked the release of “The End of All Things” by John Scalzi. This is book 6 of the “Old Man’s War” (OMW) series, which started which started in 2005. For those that don’t know, this book is a collection of 4 novellas previously published starting in June of this year, plus some additional material. As I’ve already read the novellas, I can say with certainty that this book continues Scalzi’s excellent OMW universe. It closely follows the format and story lines from book 5, The Human Division.

There isn’t much I can say without providing many spoilers, but it’s most definitely worth a read if you’re into SciFi. You’ll want to have read the rest of the OMW universe books. If you haven’t read any of them yet, then go out and buy Old Man’s War right now (it’s an entire $3 on Kindle). Soon there’s going to be an OMW-based TV series and Scalzi is locked-in for 13 more books over the next 10 years, so there’s going to be plenty more where that came from. (Editor’s note: Contractually, only one of those 13 books is to be part of the Old Man’s War universe. However, that is not to say more of them won’t.)

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Renovation starts tomorrow!

August 16, 2011

The 69th Annual World Science Fiction Convention, WorldCon, starts tomorrow. I’m looking forward to meeting some of my favorite authors and getting some books signed. Amusingly enough, I had to actually buy some dead-tree books as I only had kindle versions of a few of my authors. Specifically, Mira Grant (aka Seanan McGuire) who’s book, Feed, is nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel, and John Scalzi. For him, I picked up The Android’s Dream, which I read when Jon used the loan feature on the Kindle.

Amazon's desperate Video On Demand promotions

June 28, 2010

Last night I was surfing Amazon MP3 for some new music, nothing exciting really. While extremely rare, I decided to splurge and buy an entire album. Before I had even begun the track downloads, I had a new email from Amazon. To be exact, it was an email stating: Your recent order entitles you to a promotional code that you can apply on your next qualifying order.

I hate modern TV schedules

March 11, 2010

Let’s take a quick look back at TV in the mid 90s. When a show started for the season, you were safe in assuming that the show would be 24 to 26 episodes in length and that it would be on essentially contiguously. Sure, nothing was on TV during the week of Thanksgiving or Christmas, but who cares? It was the holidays, specials were on and generally you were busy with other things.