Drew is a web developer turned online marketer. He lives outside Dublin (Ireland, not Ohio) and works in it. He's a pretty devoted gamer, running tabletop RPGs, and playing in all kinds of MMOs and other games. He is also interested in cookery, horticulture, virtual community, geography, geology, handcrafts, and medieval combat. He is married, and is overseen on a day to day basis by two cats.
The nominations for this year’s Hugo award for best novel are:
Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Morrow; Atlantic UK)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK)
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen; HarperVoyager UK)
Saturn’s Children by Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
Zoe’s Tale by John Scalzi (Tor)
For once, I’ve read all of these. The Scalzi, Stross and Doctorow stories fall more under science fiction. Well, more or less. Anathem is very hard to place, and I’m willing to call it “speculative”, and not try to pin it down any further. The Graveyard Book is definitely fantasy. So I’m better informed than in [...]
Barbara Hambly was born in 1951, has written more than forty novels, and has recently started playing World of Warcraft. She is also my favourite author, beating out some fairly classy competition, as you’ll see from columns to come.
She has a Masters in Medieval History and spent a year in Bordeaux as a part of her work for that degree. In the time between that and writing fulltime, she worked as a high school teacher, model, waitress, technical editor (which shows up a bit in her inside knowledge of mainframe computers in one of her series), all-night liquor store clerk, [...]
