The latest installment of Mur Lafferty’s wonderful series Heaven went live just the other day.  I need to re-listen to the first for seasons to refresh my memory, but I’ve subscribed… and so should you.

That apparently was the question when I ran a search over on google yesterday. I don’t really have any explanation for why the third search result showed up for the search “implementing a factory in php“.

Well looks like Nina has finally thrown off her captors in the land of Amazon. So get over there and buy!

The latest installment of “Heaven” by the incomparable Mur Lafferty launches on June 1!

For those who really can’t wait you can head on over to http://heavennovel.com/ register for the site and sign-up for the Inside Story!

Well last night I finally got to the theater to see the latest movie in the Star Trek franchise. I had been running hot and cold on it given all the chatter there had been over the past year about the contents of the film.

After how badly burned I felt having wasted money on Nemesis (a film which should have never been made). I was very concerned with just how badly it sounded like they were going to retcon the universe.

That said I was very pleased with “Star Trek“, much as with the latest installments in the James Bond franchise. I feel that with this new film they managed to “reboot” the series successfully. There is just enough of the original classic material showing through, and what changes they made actually had an excuse.

I think my greatest fear was that they would make changes to the existing canon and just expect the fans to accept the changes. That was the way I felt with Nemesis, where purely for plot purposes they added a new dynamic to the Romulan Empire that I do not recall anywhere in canon before that (in fact I’m fairly certain that there was canon information precluding the “Remans”).

But I digress.

To the point then, I would recommend the film to my sci-fi fan friends. I left the theater with my brother feeling very up beat about the whole thing.

Aside from the ticket prices… but that is a rant for some other day.

Well it appears the brave barbarian princess has been set upon by highwaymen on the information highway shortly after reaching the land of Amazon.

So grab the PDF and spread the word! Or head over to Christiana’s page for more details.

Nina Kimberly the Merciless by Christiana Ellis is a comedic fantasy novel coming to print today May 15th, 2009, from Dragon Moon Press. Please help Nina to climb the charts by purchasing the book from Amazon.com today! You can get a free PDF e-copy of the book here.

You can find out more about Christiana at http://christianaellis.com/ and Nina Kimberly at http://www.ninakimberly.com/

Note: There looks to be something odd going on over at Amazon. Please keep trying, based on how good the podiobook was this is certainly worth plunking some coin down for a hard copy.

Found another little gem over at Dark Roasted Blend to the Ultimate Guide to Modern Writers of Science Fiction & Fantasy. The site links to a public viewable Google Spreadsheet. Listing includes authors from 1999-2009.

Yesterday I found the following link to a listing of SF writers who blog over at Dark Roasted Blend.

The New York Times has a very interesting word cloud analysis of Presidential Inaugural addresses:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/01/17/washington/20090117_ADDRESSES.html?hp

Head on over and take a look.