Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 01, 2019

I wonder if Jeffery will be going to summer camp too.

Any guesses as to who else uses that method

“Then how’d you form your opinion?”

“Because it doesn’t have ponies. If no ponies are involved , then BORRRRRing!”

Bah! Geeks – only questions and no opinions. Feel you Danae.

Can’t find any reviews of this book.

If Fox and Friends says it, then it must be true.

‘Picnic On Paradise’ by Joanna Russ.

Wiley! You are my Hero, a master cartoonist! this is a perfect representation of us!

“…how’d you form your opinion?”

Out of thin air. It’s a popular medium for forming many things, including “evidence”, and especially “statistics”. It’s far more malleable than modelling clay.

This book, which was written by a speechwriter and TV producer, has 4 positive review and 2 negative reviews on Amazon. The 1-star review begins, “Among the worst written books I’ve ever read.”

Oh, the pleasure of a book in the summertime. Reading because you want to, not for school. Ray Bradbury, take me away from this dreary life.

Anyone seen DD-Wiz? He’s been absent, hope he didn’t get the Funny Papers Police mad at him again.

Except she’s up front about it.

Plenty of female SciFi authors writing novels if that’s your problem, Danae.

Ah yes, guilt by association.

Danae should actually like science fiction, because reading it might actually give her hope that someday there will be a cure for booger-brained boys……..

This is what social media reviews are for.

… and hope for a truly dystopian future.

Real books don’t need batteries.

When I was a teenage girl (40+ years ago), I was informed that I didn’t like science fiction, because science fiction was for boys – this from a female teacher. Pity I had already been reading it for at least 5 years and had a remarkably eclectic collection by then…

Poor Danae, robbing herself of the opportunity to read some truly great fiction. Someone needs to tell her that she’s letting Jeffrey dictate her tastes.

Since Abaddon appears in the Hebrew Bible as both a place of destruction and an angel of the abyss I would have guessed Jeffrey was reading Biblical commentary. Either that or a sequel to James K Morrow’s fantasy, Blameless in Abaddon, a sequel to his Towing Jehovah.

“That’s is the worst thing ever.” Well, did you read the book? No.

Of course, Science Fiction is one of the Fastest Growing genres.

Eclipsed only by Japanese Anime & Manga.

Of course, Science Fiction & Fantasy are the two Fastest Growing genres.

Eclipsed only by Japanese Anime & Manga.

Romance still leads the pack, but a lot of Romance authors are starting to hedge their bets by doing Cross Genre stories.

“Abaddon Consortium, the first book of a trilogy, is a Sherlock Holmes meets The Lord of the Rings adventure appealing to a wide audience, both male and female.”- http://www.lawrencemillerbooks.com/abaddon-consortium.html

A reading device IS NOT a book!

Danea, have you ever read Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia E. Butler, James Tiptree Jr. (AKA Alice Bradley Sheldon), Mary Shelley, N.K. Jemisin, Margaret Atwood, Nnedi Okorafor, Andre Alice Norton, etc. (Women science fiction authors)?

Or maybe just watching you, Jeffrey!!!