and by the many for whom he was ‘‘Science Fiction’s Dad.’’
Deepest condolences to all who cared about Jim, whose lives he touched and careers he influenced. This amounts to almost everyone in our field today, whether or not they’re aware of his intellectual parentage.
Career highlights: In 2007, SFWA named Jim Grand Master. In 2015, he was inducted into the SF Hall of Fame. He was festooned with countless honors over decades at the heart of the field. He authored some 35 books and edited 20 more, countless non-fiction pieces, radio and TV shows, and 100-plus short stories including one he finished during his last week and sold the day he died.
The third in the companion novel series to the podcast
Welcome to Night Vale is a memoir of sorts from one of the most iconic characters in the show, the titular strange being who simultaneously occupies everyone’s house in a mysterious desert town. The book is narrated by the actor who performs her on the podcast, writer and former child actor Mara Wilson. The voice of the Faceless Old Woman has always been dryly humorous, almost clinical, as she recounts the peculiar and often sadistic pranks that she plays upon the citizens of Night Vale. I’ve always thought that tone suggested both a morality alien to our own and a lid concealing a seething cauldron of emotion. In this book, she blows the lid off that cauldron and explains how she developed that alien morality. Never telling us her name, she nevertheless reveals a great deal of information about her past, beginning with a childhood growing up in a manor house on the Mediterranean coast during the late 18th and early 19th
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Romantic fiction place to go for love lessons
For anyone searching for lessons in love as we head into Valentine’s Day there is no better place to look than the vast and varied catalogue of romantic fiction, according to a Deakin University romance scholar.
Dr Jodi McAlister, a lecturer in writing and literature with the School of Communication and Creative Arts, studies representations of love in popular culture and believes romance novels provide valuable insights into the ways we love and express our love.
“There is still a stigma around reading ‘those silly books for women’ but romance fiction is far from silly,” Dr McAlister said.
Oaths of Light Windows game
The story takes place a few decades after the great war that opposed the Elmeian people, and the kingdom of Meadran.
You will live the story through Eden. A 17 years old girl that lives in her small and peaceful village with her mother until the day she is summoned to the capital of the kingdom to assist the ceremonies of the Oaths of Light like every inhabitant of the kingdom on their seventeenth year.
But lately, Eden has been having the same weird dream over and over. In which she can hear a conversation between a man and a woman speaking about something that looks important.
It's cold outside and everyone's cooped up inside looking for new things to do and that's where tasteful, age-appropriate electronics can save the snow day.