Rob's Blog o' Stuff

Joss Whedon is directing an episode of The Office ? How freaking cool is that? The show with the best comedic dialogue being directed (at le...

Over the past year or two through the good graces of Pyr , I’ve been introduced to Mike Resnick’s fiction. This is a good thing, because I...

First HBO announces they will be doing a Preacher Television show . Today the annoucement is made that HBO just picked up the rights for ...

I published a new review to SFFWorld yesterday, John C. Wright ’s Orphans of Chaos , which I thought was OK, if a bit frustrating. It felt ...

Today is Tolkien’s birthday and as the title of my post indicates, the man would have been 115 today. Friends of Hobbiton everywhere – rejoi...

As is most often the case when I do these things, I neglected a couple of books in my recap of my 2006 reading/book addiction summary. The ...

A New Year, a new review, and a anew blog template to kick off 2007. I’m not sure if I like this new backend set up for blogger, but I do li...

Hear the pin dropping? Yeah, I know the blog has been quiet lately. Life gets in the way plans sometimes. I have to admit, the 50-degree w...

All good things must come to an end, unfortunately. It was a disappointing loss for the Scarlet Knights on Saturday, but the season is sti...

Never, in my 15+ year association with Rutgers as an undergraduate and alumnus did I expect the football team to be ranked in the top 20, to...

Yep, the thirties are moving along pretty quickly. My 32nd year was a good one, I suppose. I started a new job, finished a novel, wrote a ...

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

I posted my review of The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor, a retelling of Alice in Wonderland. In the same vein as Maguire’s Wicked, tho...

A couple of the folks over FantasyBookSpot started up a cool, snarky Web comic called Greenhorn . It reminds me a bit of Dork Tower , which...

I recently posted my interview with David Louis Edelman , author of the fantastic Infoquake. After I posted my review a couple of weeks ago...

I've been very busy with work lately and as such, I haven't had much posting time here at the 'o Stuff. In better news, two week...

I know I may be a bit late in singing the praises of Scott Lynch 's debut novel, but I should hope this doesn’t make these praises any l...

Infoquake just might be THE Science Fiction novel of the year, if not the past five years. David Louis Edleman has done so many things rig...

Yesterday, I posted my review of Novik's Black Powder War by Naomi Novik . I've also been making my way through the John Scalzi edi...