Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

So I had a CT scan. If you don’t like the prospect of having a kidney stone, you might check out the National Kidney Foundation’s website. ...

Nichelle Nichols, who was the original Uhura in Star Trek , passed away. You can read all about her at various sites, but I’ll try to put a ...

Enola is the younger sister of Sherlock, and though the book does not give her exact age, she seems to be an older teenager. Being unusually...

As usual, I went to the Bellevue Downtown Park, on the south side of Bellevue Square (a suburb of Seattle). It was very subdued this year: n...

What do you mean, you don’t remember the animated version of Star Trek: Voyager ? Here is a snippet. Doesn’t that bring back memorie...

Here are my last cosplay pics from Norwescon.                         This girl won a ribbon for her costume. Sh...

I’ve been delayed in doing this supplemental post because I was sick for a while, but here is the penultimate post, which  is mostly cosplay...

I attended an interesting panel on how AI is portrayed in fiction. One of the panelists was Eva L. Elasigue, who wrote about AI and has a sc...

Norwescon is the largest science fiction and fantasy convention in the Pacific Northwest with an emphasis on writing. They capped their in-p...