Wednesday Knights Blog

I love Escape Pod. They provide free short story every week. I almost always enjoy their stories. This week I listened to Escape Pod 208: An Almanac for the Alien Invaders by Merrie Haskell. I found this story utterly captivating.
Although the story essentially dealt with a small slice of the protagonist’s life, there was so [...]

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This trailer looks pretty cool. Additional info about the movie can be found here. I know Cameron has been working on the 3D for the movie for years.
Update: Tor.com has a review of a preview of the movie.

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Truer words have never been spoken than by John Scalzi today when, while talking about bad designs in Star Wars and add addressing the argument that Star Wars is really fantasy, not science fiction, John says:
The failure mode of science fiction is NOT “fantasy,” it is “bad science fiction.”
Amen. Star Wars is science fiction, even [...]

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This video is awesome. Just one more reason to love Felicia Day.

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This was a great day. In the morning I played Night of the Living Brat Pack. It was a combination of The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with zombies. I had played with the GM before in a Mallrats game that was awesome. This game was just as good and I had a [...]

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Today I had the opportunity to play with Chuck’s favorite Gen Con GM: Kent (he’s in the black shirt in the picture below). We played a d20 Modern in which we were trying to rescue a group of Boy Scouts. I played a yoga instructor. I knew when I picked her that I would likely [...]

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Today, I played a game called Mekton. I had never played it before. We played a variant in which we trying to score a goal (similar to soccer) while attacking the players on the other side. I had an absolute ball. (It helped that our side won the game).
Ben Balestra (from All Games Considered) was [...]

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We are all here and ready to have a great time. The Rod and I had problems picking up our badges and event tickets (fortunately through no fault of our own). The process to correct the problem was time consuming, but otherwise painless. The customer service reps were quite nice as they solved my problem.
Bill [...]

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This is a great idea.  At the 2009 Worldcon a photographer set up a studio to take pictures of people attending Worldcon. Check out the set here. I would love to see someone do this for GenCon.

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A recent press release has reported that Gen Con has signed to be in Indianapolis through 2015. I have to admit that I am happy about this. I think Indy has been a great host city and I find the downtown area very convenient and welcoming. Of course, Indy gets something out of this as [...]

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