Year: 2005

Company Do’s and Don’ts

So maybe I did gain a couple of pounds over the last 24 hours, and I don’t even want to think about the brain cells I may have killed off, but having my office farewell dinner last night and my new employer’s Christmas do tonight was a lot of back-to-back fun and consumptive bliss. Today, […]

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History Repeats Itself

At least, that’s what ‘Making history’ by Stephen Fry has the reader believing. A clever and well-researched time travel tale as well as a very loud message on the wisdom of assassinating Hitler, ‘Making history’ is a missionary book: a speculative fiction novel that has a good chance of convincing normal people that science fiction […]

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In The Air Tonight

From the DragonPage Cover to Cover feature, here are some of my favorite quotes from the interviews with my Writers of the Future friends and co-first place winners slithytove and sidravitale. “So Sidra, tell us about your story ‘My daughter, the Martian’?” “Well, the title’s not quite as long a title as the title of […]

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Enough Already (not really…)

Reviews up the wazoo! This is what The Internet Review of Science Fiction has to say about Beans and marbles: “Immediately following this silly story, however, is Beans and Marbles by Floris M. Kleijne. It seems like a disagreement over how long someone occupies the toilet might be just another silly little thing, but when […]

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One Trick Pony

Yet another review of ASIM Issue 20 and my story Beans and marbles: ““Beans and Marbles” by Dutch writer Floris M Kleijne goes down the mental illness path as well. Cryo-colony starship engineer John has gone bat-shit on the long-haul, and his single fellow crew member Richard is helpless to do anything about it. […] […]

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Ahem, There Seems To Be A Tiger…

If you’re looking for an enchanting, original, suspenseful, magical, poetic, confusing, charming book to read, and even if you’re not but like novels in general, go out and buy Life of Pi by Yann Martel. Or better still, order the book through Amazon right now. It’s one of those books that I will henceforth, having […]

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Exciting Disappointment

Well, there is good news, good news, and bad news. I’ll start with one of the good newses. My mug will not, after all, be used to sell lottery tickets on national TV this december. Of course, this is also the bad news: as I gloomily predicted in yesterday’s post, my bungled screen test did […]

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Smile, You’re On Camera!

It is good to know that love is not the only thing that can turn me into a gibbering idiot. Although I did not actually gibber during my first ever screen test today, my performance did border on the idiotic. I have a faint hope that this is a feeling similar to hating every first […]

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Kiss of Death

Yay! Stuart Barrow, the editor of Issue 20 of Andromeda Spaceways (featuring Beans and Marbles), notified “his” authors that another review of the issue appeared online. The whole review is here, but this is what the reviewer had to say about my story: “Amusing. Yes, amusing is the world I’d use to describe the next […]

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Murphy Felony

I had a first date last night. A blind date even, or rather, a nearsighted date, since we had already exchanged emails and photographic proof of our existence and appeal. In the 90 minutes between coming home from work and departing for the date, it is always hard to decide in which order to perform […]

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