Here’s a nice coincidence: I’m currently reading Andy Remic’s novel War Machine (and loving it so far), and I just discovered via Fantasy Book Critic that Remic will is putting out his novels War Machine and Spiral on the internet as podcasts, read by Andy Remic with background music provided by rock band the3 m1ss1ng.  They’ll be coming out at about a chapter a week on Podiobooks.com.

I think this is a really cool idea.  I especially like the musical aspect- I’ve written before about the combination of music and books, and the idea of a book “soundtrack,” so it’s great to see it actually being made a reality.  I look forward to seeing how this progresses.

You know, I hate to turn into one of those grumpy old codgers carrying on about how ridiculously long the holiday season has gotten nowadays.  Nevertheless, I have to ask: why, when I went to my local Walgreens a full week ago, October 6th, were they already selling Christmas cookies?  Christmas cookies, mind, in a store with an entire aisle dedicated to Halloween candy and decorations.  Please to explain.  I don’t want to see the different holidays bleeding into each other like this.  By early December, they’ll probably have the Easter candy out.

I’ve got a review of Graham Sharp Paul’s debut novel over at Crucial Taunt.  Have a look.

My video games column at Diverse Nerd Association continues.  My September 19th column has stuff on the possible Mass Effect movie, Warhammer Online, Uwe Boll, and what is almost certainly the first time anyone has brought up John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra while discussing Xbox Live.  The September 26th column has Crysis Warhead, the forthcoming Max Payne movie, Spore, and more.  You know, it’s not just any column that manages to work in USA Up All Night, municipal zoning laws, and the phrases “godlike post-singularity machine intelligences” and “pagan blood sacrifice” in the space of less than 500 words.

Under “Pages” at the top of my right sidebar, I now have a link to a listing of all the book reviews I’ve done, both here and elsewhere.  Check it out here.