Rob's Blog o' Stuff

I posted the review of the second Douglas Clegg book I read yesterday, Neverland , which I enjoyed a great deal: Clegg employs an easy-goin...

This is the first Novel Ballot where I've read the majority of the nominees. Links on the novels, obviously, point to my reviews and fo...

Regular readers should know the drill by now. Sunday I post what I received the previous week, some Monday’s I’ll post randomly, and Tuesday...

Fringe is pushing me away and True Blood continues to suck me into the show. The acting is not that believable on Fringe and Joshua Jack...

Up went my latest review, The Ancient by R.A. Salvatore , a book I enjoyed more than I expected. I haven't read any of his other DemonW...

I posted my review of Karen Miller ’s Empress today. It started out fairly strong (if predictable), but by the end, the novel turned into t...

I posted up my review of Wastelands a terrific anthology edited by John Joseph Adams . I thought the collection was extremely well-rounded ...

Mrs. Blog 'o Stuff and I saw Cloverfield today. It was the biggest movie of the weekend, and if Lost didn't already do it, this f...

It has been a relatively trying seven days. Nothing major or life shattering, but rather more frustrating than anything. Last week, my car b...

Review of Kit Reed's The Baby Merchant and my interview with her are now posted at SFFWorld . Well, that was two hours of intriguing ...

I posted my review for The Crooked Letter by Sean Williams yesterday. I thought Williams did a lot of cool things in this book and I'm...

I posted my review of Naomi Novik's His Majesty's Dragon last night, and started Savage Messiah by Robert Newcomb. Based upon th...

Lost , while not a complete disappointment, left me unsatisfied. Even more so because of the long wait between new episodes. A little bit of...

Two weeks in a row with strong Lost episodes, that hasn't happened in a while. Of course, the f-tards at ABC are skipping next week. Th...

Lost was an enormous improvement over the previous Charlie-beat down episode. I thought the islanders were a bit unforgiving towards him, a...

Finished up Mike Resnick's Starship: Mutiny a couple of days ago and posted the review today. I liked this one a lot, I'm glad the...

I finished a couple of good books this past week, the Moorcock/Constantine collaboration Silverheart and Robert Buettner's Orphan'...

Karen Traviss just signed with HarperCollins/Eos for three more books in the sequence that began with City of Pearl one of the best nove...

Going off to see Wicked tonight with Mrs. Blog o’ Stuff. Her parents gave us the tickets as a Christmas gift. We both read the book and rea...