Archive for August, 2008

Oy vey, it’s scifi, already!

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

For the past few days, there’s been a running argument over at io9 over whether or not Michael Chabon’s “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union,” having won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, is really scifi. My response: Nu, of course it’s scifi. (As much as any other alt-history novel is scifi, that is.)

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My new career: diabetic hand model

Monday, August 4th, 2008

It may not be as impressive as my juvenile brush with fame as “the kid on the LCD TV,” but that’s my hand holding a blood-glucose monitor in the latest CR. (That’s also my number, which isn’t as low as I’d like it to be.) You can call my agent if you want [...]