Author: Ruth Arnell

You can win the entire Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Leguin.

The only thing more annoying than Christmas commercials earlier than Halloween is the inevitable Hobbitization of everything, including things that shouldn’t be Hobbitized.

There are only two links today because I’m trying something new. And these links are my way of foreshadowing.

I’m going to ‘fess up, here.

I hate Earthsea. Hahahahaa, I said it. I read the first book and I thought it was boring and stupid.

Second confession,

Welcome back to the weird and wonderful world of my brain. I’ve got all sorts of goodies for you today.

Featured Authors:

Gail Carriger gets the Sword and Laser treatment.

Hugh Howey got featured over at SF Signal.

Cassandra Clare wrote a personal post about anti-bullying month and discovering hate blogs about her. And to counteract the hate, here’s a few of her fans talking about why they like her work and here’s our reviews of her work.

Have you all stopped crying over Dr. Who yet? Good, then let’s proceed with this week’s column, which I shall refer to as the “have you heard of these new things called e-books?” edition.

First, Orbit Ebooks is offering five of its best selling e-books for $1.99 each in celebration of its five year anniversary. All the cover art featured in this column can be clicked on to take you to the purchase page for the book on Amazon. I took advantage of the sale to pick up The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin,

It is Banned Book Week, and the ALA has a history of the most challenged books of the last century. I don’t know what’s worse, people banning books or people banning books because they don’t understand them. Apparently people thought 1984 promoted communism.

Kirkus releases their latest column in a series about understanding science fiction terminology, complete with annotations recommending excellent books that deal with each concept.

Watch this great interview and author introduction with Cherie Priest on Sword and Laser.