Life is hard. When you don’t do any kind of chess training for some time, it’s almost back to start. Mistakes start to creep in again and things that worked smooth last year don’t work out anymore. This is no reason to despair though and together with my chess buddies I have started a new [...]
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Chess training revival; and this and that
Posted in Chess, Pinball, Reading, tagged Hugo on April 19, 2012 | 8 Comments »
And the winners of the Hugo 2011 are…
Posted in Reading, tagged Hugo and Nebula on August 30, 2011 |
What a disappointment this year, you can find the winners here. It’s not a big surprise that Connie Willis won the award for best novel but people are seriously talking about the worst books ever that got it and Willis easily makes it into the top 5. The other sections aren’t much better. I didn’t [...]
Summer time
Posted in Reading, tagged Perry Rhodan on August 4, 2011 | 5 Comments »
It’s summer time, it’s warm and the chessboard is far away in a dark corner. This is not the time for chess nor serious study beside a puzzle or two on chesstempo. Instead, in a moment of nostalgia, I picked up a book that was part of my youth. Well, not only the book but [...]
Review of the Hugo 2011 short fiction nominees
Posted in Reading on July 16, 2011 |
The Hugo is one of the big awards in the SF scene. One could discuss forever if it really reflects the best what the genre has to offer but at least it’s something worth looking at. Links to online stories can be found here. I use my proven rating system with A for great, B [...]
The 100 greatest SF and Fantasy novels of all time
Posted in Reading on July 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »
…not by me, I have to add. I stumbled upon the list here and was almost shocked (in a positive way) about the selection. Someone has read the same novels and authors that I did when I tried to catch up with the classics and masterpieces. Gene Wolfe, Dan Simmons, Philip K. Dick, Jack Vance, [...]
Hugo 2011 nominees
Posted in Reading, tagged Hugo and Nebula on May 3, 2011 |
For all SF fans: it’s Hugo time again and a nice list with links can be found at SF Signal. Last year I didn’t manage to read a lot of the stories, but this year I am in a good mood and will try again. All novelettes and short stories are available online and from [...]
5 Books you would rescue…
Posted in Reading on March 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Over there at Inside the Blogosphere the old question of books for the lone island has been rephrased into: If you had to leave your house in a hurry, and you could only grab five volumes off your shelf, which five would they be and why? 1+2. Gene Wolfe “Book of the New Sun” (actually [...]
