Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

 The March/April 2025 issue of Analog had a number of mystery stories. The novella “Murder on the Eris Express” by Beth Goder was a somew...

I recently saw Princess Mononoke in a theater. It was a treat to see it on a big screen. I will not  try to summarize the plot, which conce...

 

An alert light showed on my dashboard earlier this week. (It turned out to be no big deal.) Then I had a bad dream that I was measuring the ...

I went to Doxacon, a Christian science fiction and fantasy convention. It was on Saturday, Feb. 8th, in Woodinville, a suburb of Seattle. It...

Jade is a vampire slayer, though she denies it. She comes from a family of vampire slayers, with the inherited ability to sense vampires or ...

Happy St. Stephen’s Day. Ever wonder why the hymn “Good King Wenceslas” is sung around Christmas? If you go through the hymn, there is n...

My Dear Hemlock by Tilly Dillehay Canon Press, 2024, 182 pp. Tilly Dillehay’s My Dear Hemlock is her concept of a female version of C...

Dolly Parton has been in the news a lot recently. In October, the State Department granted her the 2024 PEACE Through Music Award. Then in N...