Fred451

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• Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
  Could you clarify what's going on with the ghost roads a bit more? As I understand it, the pocket universes that the ghost roads access are powered by the mana of whoever opened up the road to that location, "given...
• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  Audible's recommendations bot concluded that since I'd listened to Philomena Cunk, I'd like Wireless, as well as two books on the Hapsburgs, three on serial killers, and one on baseball. Assuming symmetry, then, it nailed the obvious connection between Charlie...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Reverting for a moment to the original topic, as I've gotten further into Alec Nevala-Lee's excellent Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction it's just gotten more and...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  I don't remember much about Slan, and I'm not going back into that cesspool again, thank you very much, but there's a further aspect to consider. From what I read at the time in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science...
• Commented on Dead Lies Dreaming: Spoilers
  Halfway through the book, and enjoying it greatly. As a minor point, the old folk etymology for the insulting V sign comes up, that it goes back to Agincourt and archers showing they still had their index and middle fingers....
• Commented on Dread of Heinleinism
  John Clute makes some interesting, and controversial, claims about Heinlein in his review of "We, the Living," Heinlein's long unpublished first novel. I haven't read it since it came out, and it appeared in Clute's column for what was then...
• Commented on Today is officially cancelled
  A few years ago I was in a bookstore in Pleasantville, New York, and came across a section of local authors. David Hartwell wasn't represented, which seemed odd, since he lived in Pleasantville, but when I asked, they'd never heard...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
  I'm a huge fan of the Laundry books, and have read them all at least twice. So if I second-guess your narrative strategy, please take it as friendly and harmlessly well-meant, if possibly annoying. It is necessary to explain why...