Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Dana - Mar 02, 2022 2:21:17 pm PST #27335 of 28503
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Uhura's Song, an excellent Trek novel from the Pocket Books era, is on sale for 99 cents today.

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meara - Mar 02, 2022 3:29:31 pm PST #27336 of 28503

One of the like, three books I kept when I pared down my collection many years ago! So good.


-t - Mar 02, 2022 3:31:33 pm PST #27337 of 28503
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Sweet! Bought.


dcp - Mar 02, 2022 4:52:30 pm PST #27338 of 28503
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

Uhura's Song was what introduced me to Janet Kagan. I am a fan of all her work.

She was one of the first authors I looked for online, back in '97. She posted some nice winter snowfall pictures on her web site, so I sent her a few of mine, and we exchanged a few emails from time to time after that.

If you haven't read Hellspark or Mirabile, I recommend them even more highly than Uhura's Song.


-t - Mar 02, 2022 5:10:09 pm PST #27339 of 28503
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I bought Hellspark last time you recommended it, I think, dcp, but I haven’t read it yet. And I have a sample of Mirabile to remind me get it eventually


dcp - Mar 02, 2022 5:12:35 pm PST #27340 of 28503
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

I think Uhura's Song is the one where Chekov complains, "All doctors are wampires."


Toddson - Mar 03, 2022 5:50:12 am PST #27341 of 28503
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

I got Mirabile for my sister - who didn't like it as much as I did - and for myself. My hard copy has disappeared, but I got the e-book. Somehow, my hard copy of Hellspark is still around. I liked it, but not as much as Mirabile. I have high hopes for Uhura's Song.


Sophia Brooks - Mar 03, 2022 8:41:50 am PST #27342 of 28503
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Thank you for the Pirenesi recommendation! I read it in two sittings- communte home, commute in- I just could not put it down!


Consuela - Mar 04, 2022 1:21:15 pm PST #27343 of 28503
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Wasn't it lovely? So good.


Sophia Brooks - Mar 06, 2022 9:24:50 am PST #27344 of 28503
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I just wanted to crawl inside it. I was interested that she was inspired by The Magician’s Nephew, which I also love.