The Ramshackle Vampire

The following is a timeline of events in Vernor Vinge's "Across Realtime" series of novels and stories - specifically, The Pea...

Vernor Vinge's 1986 novel Marooned in Realtime undertakes two different tasks, succeeding brilliantly at one and achieving some succ...

Invasion of the Air-Eaters was one of a series of small, inexpensive wargames with science-fictional or fantasy themes, published by Metaga...

The current drought in the central part of the United States, and the miles of dying corn I see driving to and from my petite amie's pl...

Science fiction fans have often been rather expansive in their definition of the genre and in their claiming of marginally scientifiction...

A word or two on this weblog's peculiar name: I have adapted the blog's title from the phrase "Ramshackle Empire," which a...