The Buckeye Book Fair in Wooster is coming up and it simultaneously signals the beginning of the holiday season as well as the winding down of the book signing season, at least for me. Winter is coming and given my snowy car crash of a few years back, my new personal motto is “If it’s snowin’, I ain’t goin’!”. So the Book Fair and the Akron Comicon will be the last opportunity to catch me outside of my sanctum sanctorum for the year. Hope to see you at one or the other.

The Stars Like Dust is not my favorite of Asimov's empire novels. Apparently, the book was not one of Asimov's ...