Musing

2014 has been a circus. The HMA's will only be out in one mega-post sometime in January once things begin settling down. Hang in there.

Here is more than you ever wanted to know about the books, movies, and music that stood out for me in 2013. Website of the Year - alterslash.org Finally - something that waters down the firehose of information that is Slashdot. Very phone friendly as well. Book of the Year - The Last Dark by Stephen R. Donaldson Last year at this time I was assuming that the long-awaited conclusion to the Wheel of Time could not possibly fail to own everything else that would be released through 2013. This behemoth, which  closed 15 years of reading and waiting for me, was satisfying in many ways, but also suffered significantly more than the previous two volumes finished by Sanderson due to the choppy mix of voices (it was his intent to leave as much unaltered Jordan in the work as possible) and the [SPOILER] seemingly-last-minute-addition of some Sharan forces led by a much-anticipated bad guy [END SPOILER]. The short story that was published in the Unfettered anthology would ha...