My head feels just twice the size

May 6, 2009

Stolto è colui che tenta di farmi ubriacare
(e solitamente la sbronza è tale che non sopravvive per raccontarlo).

Ora però avrei bisogno di un espresso…

books and literature

Isaac Asimov’s Gold (and other stories)

It’s unfortunate that I’m coming to this after the very unsatisfactory collection of “fantasy” stories (Asimov never wrote fantasy: he wrote satire), because this was another disappointment. The book is half short stories and half non-fiction, for random reasons, and the non-fiction half is random writings

March 21, 2026 9:00 am

books and literature

The Murderbot Diaries: Rogue Protocol + Exit Strategy

I’m not crying: a piece of some murdering bot must have gotten in my eye. Rogue Protocol is the third novella in the Murderbot Diaries, and deals with the titular character going deep undercover to figure out what happened in the “mining incident” that was

March 20, 2026 9:00 am

books and literature

Werewolves Wednesday: Robert E. Howard’s In the Forest of Villefère

The sun had set. The great shadows came striding over the forest. In the weird twilight of a late summer day, I saw the path ahead glide on among the mighty trees and disappear. And I shuddered and glanced fearfully over my shoulder. Miles behind

March 19, 2026 9:00 am

4 Comments

sbrect
Posted at 12:07h, 07 May Reply

Cin Cin
Shelidon
Posted at 08:15h, 09 May Reply

argh, lascia perdere, che brindano alla goccia
sbrect
Posted at 08:47h, 12 May Reply

ho un paio di amici che vi si troverebbero proprio bene
Shelidon
Posted at 19:33h, 16 May Reply

Beh, nemmeno io mi ci trovo poi così male…