To sleep perchance to dream of anything else

Had a dream so damn dull I woke up to escape it. All I recall is that involved 1910s white people and draft dodging...

Ride Forever

Finished Season Two of Due South. Which seems to be much shorter than the first. And ends with a clips episode. Still it does have "All the Queen's Horsemen" one of my favorite episode. One because it has the return of Leslie Nielson's character. And it has my favorite song from the many good ones of the series...

Sunday Trade: A Distant Soil

A Distant Soil: The Gathering by Colleen Doran

Within the first dozen pages of Doran's scifi/fantasy/romance epic you get a brother and sister with mysterious powers and the villainous Martin Institute. Than soon after that you get the aliens. Beautiful human-looking aliens and weird hulking ones both. And more psychics. And a cynical but heroic cop. And a gang-banger with a good heart. And more beautiful alien psychics. And Sir Galahad of Avalon. And alien revolutions. And an alien threat to Earth. And a plan to gather heroes to stop it. And a were-panther/alien. And evil dictators who aren't. And so on...

Colleen Doran manages to somehow blend together all these disparate elements into a cohesive and compelling story in a A Distant Soil. Even the Faerie. Did I mention the Faerie? Yeah, from what could easily be a giant mess Doran creates a world and tale that lives up to the description of epic...