An author's journal
Two bits of news on the Biauru front today. One, Skin in the Game, the previously announced sequel to Aleyara s Descent and Aleyara s Flight, is scheduled to appear in the January/February 2027 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact, which will most likely go on sale in December 2026. The second, more exciting news is [ ]
Sometimes my curiosity gets the better of me. The long-ish walks I take around the neighborhood for exercise often pass through a long, narrow overlook park called Fairview Park, which basically has one long, winding one-way street with ascending hills on one side and descending hills (and a sidewalk) on the other for most of [ ]
I ve been recovering post-Shore Leave and catching up on my shows, but I figure I d better talk about my trip before I forget the details. I left home a little before 10 AM, stopping at the bank first to get small bills from the ATM so I could give change at Meet the Pros. For [ ]
Once again, Audiobooks.com is offering my original audio novel Tangent Knights 1: Caprice of Fate for a steep discount, 60% off the cover price, or only $8.00. 60% OFF Caprice of Fate [Dramatized Adaptation]: Tangent Knights 1 As a bonus, if you sign up for Audiobooks.com, you can get two more audiobooks for free — [ ]
We re a week away from the 46th Shore Leave Convention, once again being held at the Lancaster Wyndham Resort and Convention Center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Like last year, the con has a handy mobile schedule page now available: https://www.shore-leave.com/mobile-schedule You can click on “People” and then on the individual names to find their panel schedules. [ ]
A while back, I mentioned that I suspected my problems with variable astigmatism (my vision being blurrier some days than others) had something to do with my use of ibuprofen as well as dry eyes, and when I discontinued taking ibuprofen and used lubricating drops, my vision got better. After a while, I started to [ ]
There have been many foreign Zorro movies and shows over the decades, only a handful of which are easy to find on streaming, and most of which are major departures from the traditional version of the character. So I’m going to limit myself to just a few of the more available and relatively faithful ones. [ ]
The most famous Zorro movies to modern audiences are probably the pair directed by Martin Campbell: The Mask of Zorro from 1998 (written by John Eskow, Ted Elliott, and Terry Rossio) and its 2005 sequel The Legend of Zorro (written by Roberto Orci Alex Kurtzman), both of which I saw on Netflix. I remember [ ]
My latest entry on the Fiction tier is Invasion of the Dreamers, a novelette-length tale of a turbulent first contact with beings so alien in body and mind that it s difficult to convince them the humans they endanger are even real. This is an old story I wrote in the late 1990s and never sold [ ]
Earlier, I mentioned that the first of Henry Darrow’s three Zorro series was Filmation Associates’ 1981 animated series The New Adventures of Zorro. I’m going to repost and revise my discussion from my blog back in 2012: https://christopherlbennett.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/more-vintage-cartoons-filmations-lone-ranger-and-zorro/ The New Adventures was a moderately faithful adaptation featuring…