Pleased to see that Stephan Martiniere has won the Chesley for one of my recent favorite covers… for Ian McDonald’s River of Gods. And...

Why do the Hugo awards loom so large when fewer than 500 readers usually vote? Well, we’re a small community. What we lack in numbers we...

Much ado about Mundane Science Fiction. (See:  Wikipedia. )Here’s my take: Mundane Science Fiction is a useful handle for sf stories of...

I am really stupid with jet lag. But not too stupid to look at my pictures. Here are some favs, including three places you must see...

Salamanca has an “old” church and a “new” one. The new one was built in the sixteenth century. This nueva catedral is the most fabulous...

Day Five in Spain. I thought I would be over jet lag by now, but no, it hovers. I think this is because all your plans for getting on...