It’s Wednesday (or at least it is somewhere), and so it’s time for another Guest Geek post! Today fellow geek, Laura VanArendonk Baugh takes us into the world of cosplay. It’s something I’ve always admired but never quite managed the energy for myself, unless you count my Tony Stark outfit that I wore for Halloween last year. Laura, on the other hand, definitely knows what she’s doing, and it’s pretty darned impressive! (And suddenly I’m thinking about cosplay possibilities for Zeus Is Dead…)
It’s not an advance screening of Star Wars VII, but it’s the next best thing: another Guest Geek post! This time around my guest is my friend, geek, and fellow author Camela Thompson. She’s got geek-cred on multiple levels (she introduced me to The Strain, for one), and today she’s going to talk about growing up—and continuing to be—a female gamer. Before I turn it over to Camela, however, a quick plug: She and I will be doing a joint event at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, WA on May 28th. If you like cyberpunk and non-sparkling vampires, come by, say hi, and listen to us read!
After a brief hiatus, I’m pleased to announce that the Guest Geeks feature has now returned! (Always, always use quality locks and chains on any dungeon guest facility for your geek-wrangling. I had a security breach and it took far too long to round everybody up again using those over-sized butterfly nets.) But the wait has been well worth it, because I’ve got a great one for you today from fellow geek and Seattleite Nick Fraser. And hey, if you’re in Seattle yourself, you can join Nick and a bunch of other awesome geeks at the Wayward Coffeehouse for a showing of the 1960 version of The Time Machine at 8pm on Sunday, May 9th. I’ll be there, and you should be, too.
After a Norwescon-induced hiatus, the Guest Geeks feature is back! This time up, my guest is sci-fi/fantasy geek Tammy Thomas. Now, I’ve always found David Tennant to be my own personal favorite Doctor, but I have to admit that Tammy has got the best and most touching argument I’ve ever heard for why the ninth Doctor is the best doctor. Take it away, Tammy!
It’s Wednesday again, and time again for another Guest Geek post! I’ve got something a bit different for you this week. It’s a combination of something geeky, disgusting, and delicious, courtesy of fellow geek and author Tiffany Pitts. (Check out her book at the end for some humor-laced sci-fi. Also a cat!) She also happens to be an artist when it comes to baking, and I mean that “disgusting” in the previous sentence in a very positive way. But enough of my yammering. I’ll hand things over to her. Get ready for…
A Memory in the Black, book two in my cyberpunk series The New Aeneid Cycle, just got it’s Booktrope re-release last week. So what could be a more fitting Guest Geek post than this one from electronica musician and fellow geek Seren Myamoto? Please welcome her as she talks about the Singularity, her love of the cyberpunk genre, and what we’ve got to look forward to from the technology the future! (Also, check out the music in her bio at the end. Besides being a geek, this woman’s got one heck of an amazing voice.)[Read more…]
It’s Wednesday (or at least it is when this post is going up–the space-time continuum is confusing sometimes), which has come to mean it’s time for another Guest Geek post! This week’s guest is fellow gamer and sci-fi writer D.M. Cain. D.M. LOVES the Final Fantasy franchise, and you can believe she’s come here to make sure we all know just how awesome it is. I have to admit, being primarily a PC gamer, that I’ve only played the first two games in the series back in the NES days. (Yes, I’m old.) After reading this, it looks like I’m going to have to see what I can find for my PS3…