Archive for May, 2007
- “Infoquake” Nominated for John W. Campbell Award • May 31, 2007
Holy auspicious awards, Batman! My debut novel "Infoquake" has been nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best Novel!
- Revisiting Middle Earth: “The Return of the King” • May 25, 2007
A single theme kept running through my head as I read j.R.R. Tolkien's "The Return of the King." It's the way evil acts continually redound to the greater good in the end.
- Revisiting Middle Earth: “The Two Towers” • May 20, 2007
Many people who read "The Lord of the Rings" falter somewhere in "The Two Towers," and that's perfectly understandable. It's a difficult book about moral choice and the temptations of good and evil.
- Hacked (And Not in That Cool Cyberpunk Kind of Way) • May 16, 2007
If you tried to visit my blog and/or my website this morning — or tried to read any of the feeds — you were likely greeted by a string of gibberish. (I mean, more gibberish than you usually find here.) If you were using an older browser or a browser with ludicrously bad security settings, [...]
- Revisiting Middle Earth: “The Fellowship of the Ring” • May 14, 2007
Ideally one should write about the three books of The Lord of the Rings as a unit, since that’s the way J.R.R. Tolkien wrote them. It was the publisher’s decision to split the novel into three parts, a decision that the author only grudgingly accepted. He wanted LOTR published in six parts, with book 1 [...]
- Revisiting Middle Earth: “The Hobbit” • May 10, 2007
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion contains a beautiful depiction of the world’s creation through music by Eru Ilúvatar and his choir of Ainur. It has passionate love stories, an Oedipal tale of woe, and theological conundrums aplenty.
The Hobbit, by contrast, contains:
A character who invents the game of golf by knocking the head of the goblin Golfimbul into [...]
- Revisiting Middle Earth: “The Silmarillion” • May 7, 2007
After finishing up MultiReal (for the time being, at any rate), I felt that I needed to immerse myself in something familiar. Something classic. And so I decided to re-read J.R.R. Tolkien’s books on Middle Earth chronologically from start to finish, from The Silmarillion to Return of the King with a pitstop at the newly [...]
