Kate Woodbury puts in words one of the things I’ve struggled with when scripting Dark Candle: In the novel Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov, Asimov’s detective Elijah Bailey has to investigate a murder on the planet, Aurora. On his way to Aurora, Elijah reads books of Aurorian history/sociology, etc. However, when he arrives, he [...]

It will come as no surprise to you that language is something which I enjoy–some might say overmuch. If you’ve not had a chance to check out Nickyitis, today’s well-written strip is a good place to start.

Until a few minutes ago, we displayed the Recent Referrers (that is, websites which were linking back to us) in the WassUp widget in the upper left-hand corner of the page. Upon discovering that all the recent links were for Russian smut sites, I disabled that functionality. I will see if I can re-enable it–but [...]