I started this little book club a couple of years ago for a number of reasons. It was originally envisioned as a way of: 1. Getting some of you SF enthusiasts reading. 2. Sharing my love of reading with likeminded individuals. 3. Introducing readers to authors they may not have otherwise checked out. 4. Spotlighting…
June 10, 2009: Spoiler Alert! Carl Binder Takes Us Through the Big Shuttle Sequence. How NOT To Reset Your Sprinkler System. Time – The Director’s Cut. Looking For a Montreal Prostitute Map? Well, Apparently You’ve Come to the Right Place. And – Some Elric Discussion.
Carl runs us through the upcoming shuttle sequence. "Okay, um, first, you have the shuttle..." "and...uh...it's going like this..." "...and then this comes around this way but that keeps going that way..." "...eventually ending in something that looks like this." "And...that's all I got. Yep. That's it." "Please, stop that." This is a warning to…
June 8, 2009: Elric: The Stealer of Souls, by Michael Moorcock
After ten thousand years, the Bright Empire of Melnibone is in decline, its fall hastened by the return of its former ruler, Elric, a feeble albino who wields the all-powerful Stormbringer, a sword capable of sucking the souls of its victims and imparting its owner with superhuman abilities. Elric exacts his revenge on his opportunistic…
May 14, 2009: BIG Book of the Month Club News
Let’s kick off today’s entry with some BIG book of the month club news. There will be one, and only one, selection for June’s BOTMC discussion: Elric: The Stealer of Souls, by Michael Moorcock From the publisher: “When Michael Moorcock began chronicling the adventures of the albino sorcerer Elric, last king of decadent Melniboné, and…