I haven’t had much time to update this blog over the past couple of weeks because I have been busy writing articles for the Middle-earth Website at Xenite.Org. The good news is that there are now many new original articles ….
Year: 2011
After much discussion and consideration the SF-Fandom Science Fiction and Fantasy forums have been reorganized. We now have fewer forums but all the old discussions are still there for your enjoyment. We hope this new layout works better for everyone. ….
I checked in on the TheOneRing.Net’s live road trip page a few days ago. Several members of the TORN team packed a car with a Webcam and set out from California for Atlanta for the 2011 edition of Dragon*Con, which ….
We have been struggling with the many changes that time has forced upon us across the Xenite.Org Network this year. Our Websites have aged and become fragile. Over the past few months many of our sites have been redesigned, upgraded, ….
You have no idea of how many requests I have received through the years for new essays on Middle-earth. Much as I appreciated the thousands of readers who enjoyed my essays at Suite101, I have to admit that I was ….
One of our forum members asked if there will ever be any new books in the worlds created by Andre Norton. Andre Norton’s literary estate went through some legal procedures after she passed away in 2005. The situation concerning rights ….
It’s a popularity contest, I get that. Furthermore, I didn’t really do much about it. I didn’t nominate any books and I didn’t vote in the poll. So the results of NPR’s Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books survey ….
Universe Today carried a story about how statisticians and astronomers cannot agree on the likelihood of finding life elsewhere in the universe. The SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestial Intelligence) approach is to scan the heavens for non-natural patterns in the electromagnetic ….
As part of our ongoing reconstruction of Xenite.Org we have launched a new sub-domain called Middle-earth at Xenite.Org. Middle-earth at Xenite.Org is a repository for essays and news items about J.R.R. Tolkien, Middle-earth, and Tolkien fan activities. The article repository ….
The Internet is not quite there yet, it seems. This weekend in-between errands and trips to the cinema to watch “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2” I also tried to steal time to check in on Tolkien Moot, ….