Tag: SFF

  • 2025-03-07—Some Really Weird Fiction (Annihilation), AI Again

    2025-03-07—Some Really Weird Fiction (Annihilation), AI Again

    As a write this, a two-year-old is screaming in my ear because it’s quiet time and she wants to be anything but. Let’s see how this goes. As for my writing updates, I think I’ll bullet-point it this time: Bloggyness Review—Annihilation Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer, is a sci-fi/cosmic horror/”new weird” novel originally published in 2014.…

  • 25-02-28—Raccoon in Space (Chloe’s Kingdom)

    This post, I’ll remember to not leave the placeholder “XX” in the subject line. … I hope. Halfwhisker, draft 1… I’m declaring done. Strictly speaking, I haven’t fully written my way to the end of the book, but I have the outline written out, and I’m just done with draft 1. Been hammering my head…

  • 2024-02-12—Vanilla (Fantasy) and Eating Nannies

    Have you ever eaten a nanny? I bet you have. I’m not much of a fan of them, personally, but the rest of my family eats them all the time. (For context, my little one calls bananas “nannies.” And she eats, pulverizes, and otherwise terrorizes a lot of nannies.) The Failed Technomancer, chapter 27, is…

  • 2023-10-02—Starfish…

    Hello, friends! I survived the move—my wife and I spent about two weeks packing and living out of suitcases prior to the move, so it was pretty easy to round things up into the trailer and get out quick on the day of. We’re living in an in-between place until the house we want to…

  • 2023-08-14—And Now for Spiders

    Ways to describe a writer, the portia spider, Blindsight, and more.