BlogFlock★★★★★
The nature reserve runs along the coastal bluffs. Wide trails run along the tops and through scrub habitat. The trails are fenced, graded, and mostly flat, suitable for an easy stroll and probably wheelchairs. A good place to spot seabirds as well as scrubland birds like white-crowned sparrows. No…
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This Indian/pizza fusion place opened in the spot where Union Pizza used to have a second location (and Neno’s Café before that), right off the freeway on Artesia. You can get pizza and calzones, you can get curry and tandoori, or you can get them combined. So far I’ve…
David Forbes
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Written in the aftermath of several controversies over racism and sexism in the science-fiction community in the early 2010s, The Old Iron Dream traces the strain of of military authoritarianism and white male supremacy through the history of the genre. From John W Campbell’s days editing Astounding…
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★★
The Tombs of Atuan is still my favorite of the Earthsea books. There’s something fascinating about a labyrinth that you must traverse in total darkness, keeping a map and counting turns in your head. It’s actually what got me curious about what was then…
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Forrestal is the eastern end of a chain of nature reserves managed by the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy that form a continuous corridor along the hillsides facing the ocean away from the Los Angeles Basin. And between upthrust layers, ancient landslides, recent landslides, and an abandoned quarry, it’s…
Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★☆
A collection of short stories from early in Le Guin’s career, spanning her first sale through the time when she’d begun to be recognized as a major force in the genre.
Adapting the one-night-in-faerie trope to relativistic space travel, this works better…
Chris Roberson, Mike & Laura Allred, Todd Klein
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I recently went back and re-read the entire iZombie comic book series for the first time since the TV adaptation launched. If you only know the TV show, it’s very different, though they both share a similar quirky not-quite-horror, not-quite-comedy tone.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Another one for my year of reading about alien plants (along with Overgrowth, Interference and Usurpation)!
It also looks at a different corner of the Hainish universe than usual. Too far for instant communication. Centuries of time dilation instead of decades. Completely cut off…
I use Windows, macOS, Linux and Android on a regular basis, and these are the web browsers I like better than Chrome, Edge and Safari. (I don’t have any iOS devices, so I can’t really speak to how well these run on there.)
I’ve been quite happy with …
Rosemary Mosco
★★★★★
I like birds, but I’m not really a birder (checks page 135). Oh. Um. Yeah. Never mind.
*ahem*
It’s a delightful collection of comedic “definitions” of various terms one might encounter while watching birds or interacting with people who do. For instance “American Robin” refers to a…
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