PKD Smackdown Book Bracket Round 3: Championship Match!

Ancillary Justice vs The Mad Scientist’s Daughter It’s time for the highly-anticipated showdown between the two surviving 2013 PKD nominees! Two strong intelligences face off today, and with both books having a good working knowledge of AI, it’s a toss up how this match will go. Employing the thousands of years of military knowledge gained […]

PKD Smackdown Book Bracket Round 1

We’ve seeded the seven 2013 Philip K Dick award nominees into a single elimination bracket based on a weighted average of the star ratings of GeekyLibrary, Amazon, and Goodreads. Let the battle of the books begin! Ancillary Justice gets a bye In this 7-book, single elimination competition our top seeded book gets a bye and […]

Don’t believe GoT: Summer is Coming ..and spring is here.

Perhaps in Westeros, winter is coming, but where I am, its summer that I’ve got to worry about. I haven’t the time to watch the new season of Game of Thrones because I’m under siege by weeds. When in peril, consult a book. A review of Gardening for Geeks by Christy Wilhelmi (founder of gardenerd.com) […]

Swanky New Business Cards Collect yours at Norwescon!

With our new site and logo change, we had to order new business cards too. We’ve changed a lot since our first batch and it was time for an update. Take a peek at our new cards: We’ll be heading to Norwescon 37 soon, so if we meet up with you there, you might end […]

Sci-fi Inspired Bathroom Decor

About the same time we were preparing for the launch of our brand new site, I discovered a leaking pipe in my bathroom. The threads on the pipe were broken and it needed to be replaced. This required cutting into the wall. Since moving into the new house about a year ago, I’ve unleased my […]