This pages just collects some personal favorite posts. They are my favorites for reasons unknown, and share not any qualitites nor prescribe to similar guidelines that granted them inclusion.

Blind Desires: Fantasybookspot.com’s 2007 Speculative Fiction Picks 1/18/2007

- A piece at Fantasybookspot.com that gives my and other contributors pick for forthcoming Speculative Fiction in 2007, including some brief comentary by some of the authors whose books populate the article.

2006 R & A: The Return of the Fun - What Reads I dug in 2006 12/17/2006

- My favorite reads of 2006.

Tomio’s Best 100 Books of the Last 10 Years (2006)

- Your key to good reads for the next decade as I countdown my favorite 100 books published post-1996.

91-100, 81-90, 71-80, 61-70, 51-60, 41-50, 31-40, 21-30, 11-20, 2-10.

Avoiding the Semantic Back Pedal 6/28/2006

- A reflection on how tired the notion that genre critics are important, much less necessary.

Brands Make Sturdy Cructhes 6/9/2006

- Dialogue about categorization of fiction stemming from conversation at Paul Jessup’s Lotus Lyceum.

The ABC’s of Rule #14 About Reviewing 5/30/2006

- A minor spat about reviewers who can’t stand on their own two feet.

Year One Lessons: the thin line between brouhaha and opinion 2/10/2006

- My ramblings on reviewing and the intentions of reviewing, while reflecting back on FBS’s first year.

Eco’s through the Grapevine: my ‘best of’ 2005 1/5/2006

- I recount the books I enjoyed the most that were published in 2005.

The Bodhisattva Big Board: 50 SF/F books to anticipate in 2006 12/4/2005

- 50 SF/F books to look forward to in 2006, with brief notes of each, release dates, and synopsis.

Late for the party, but I got this tune I can’t get out of my head…. 11/29/2005

- Brief observation of Firefly, by someone who was late getting to the bandwagon.

Mistaken Identity - pondering Steven Erikson 11/11/2005

- My ode to author Steven Erikson and his Malazan Book of the Fallen sequence.

The Secret Language and Signs of Insecure Fandom 10/25/2005

- I rip insecure fans who think supporting their favorite author necessitates that they also have to be idiots.