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Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Sfstory Lives… on Novitious!

Sfstory, one of the ‘net’s longest-running (if not the longest running) shared fiction universes online, now has a new home for its dedicated html archives. That home is… here!
sfstory.novitious.com
I finished my long-running resurrection of the logs over on my old Earthlink site, and decided it made more sense to host them here. After [...]

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Saturday, May 12th, 2007

Back to Front

So, what have we learned?
We’ve learned that, whatever else I am, I am not an essayist.  I mean, two reviews in close to a year?  That’s it?  No analyses of current events, no outright weird speculation on conspiracies and secret technologies and suchlike, no strange fiction… bah.
To be fair, I have been busy, and I [...]

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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Book Review: Thud! by Terry Pratchett (2005)

I have been a fan of Terry Pratchett for going on fifteen years now, or maybe even twenty, but it has only been in the last few years, as I reread all the Discworld novels in order, that I’ve come to appreciate how good he is — not just as a humorist, but as a [...]

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Monday, August 28th, 2006

Movie Review: A Scanner Darkly (2006)

Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s classic, drug-war-presaging novel A Scanner Darkly is harrowing, hilarious, and not easy to digest in one viewing.  Even though I read the book a few months before seeing the movie, I still feel like I missed some things that may or may not show up if I see [...]

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Thursday, July 27th, 2006

Novitious - Newly invented… for you.

Hello, everyone. My name is Gary. This is my shiny new site. For the moment, I’ve decided to fashion it into an essay site (and by “essay,” I mean “ramble”). Should I ever get into gear with creating a webcomic, this is probably where it will go (since “Novitious” is what I’m tentatively planning on [...]

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