Thursday, December 30, 2004

All I Want(ed) For Christmas Is...

A cast of thousands?

My In-Laws
Well, okay, maybe not. But my niece is damn cute, and Star's Granny is fabulous, and I enjoy road trips with milady.

Lois McMaster Bujold
... a sequel to The Curse of Chalion - woohoo!

Lajos Egri
Twice!

Robert Heinlein
Previously unpublished, I think. No, silly, the specific book.

Bernard Cornwell
Grailey goodness.

Albert J. Dremel
Who pretty much explains himself.

Jeff Hawkins
Who doesn't, but you can look him up.

J.R.R. Tolkein
And Peter Jackson, among others. ROTK extended, to be specific. Num.

The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse
For NOT staying with us this year. Two feet of space, two hundred kph relative, two A.M. ... give thanks to whomever you believe in, for our sake.

Whatever genius invented Quadro
Salesman from the company gave my Mom his sales pitch, versatile, durable, etc... and she commented that yeah, the set she bought 20 years ago was still holding up fine. They asked her to write a testimonial.

... plus Kim Stanley Robinson, Nikita (la Femme), some craftsman in Costa Rica, and many more.

For all that we disdain the commercial aspect, it's GOOD to feel like a kid again. Tricky.