Christopher L. Bennett: Written Worlds

Six months ago, I was diagnosed with prediabetic glucose levels, and I adjusted my diet and started exercising more to try to bring my levels back down to normal.

Well, I’d settled on keeping the little Blu-Ray player and setting it atop one of my speakers (which don’t seem to get very warm, as I guess they’re big wooden boxes filled mostly with air), so I set it up (after swapping out the long and short HDMI cable…

I decided to buy a refurbished DVD/Blu-Ray player to replace my old DVD player–which will only show widescreen movies letterboxed within a pillarboxed 4:3 frame so that the image is small and surrounded by blank space on all sides–and my hand-me-down Blu-…

Last week, I took my car into the shop to get an oil change and a degreasing, which the garage recommended to find an apparent slow leak somewhere in the engine (which means I have to drive around a few hundred miles’ worth so they can see where the dye t…

Two bits of news on the Biauru front today.

Sometimes my curiosity gets the better of me.

I’ve been recovering post-Shore Leave and catching up on my shows, but I figure I’d better talk about my trip before I forget the details.

Tangent Knights 1: Caprice of Fate Once again, Audiobooks.com is offering my original audio novel Tangent Knights 1: Caprice of Fate for a steep discount, 60% off the cover price, or only $8.00. 60% OFF Caprice of Fate [Dramatized Adaptation]: Tangent Kni…

We’re a week away from the 46th Shore Leave Convention, once again being held at the Lancaster Wyndham Resort and Convention Center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

A while back, I mentioned that I suspected my problems with variable astigmatism (my vision being blurrier some days than others) had something to do with my use of ibuprofen as well as dry eyes, and when I discontinued taking ibuprofen and used lubricati…

There have been many foreign Zorro movies and shows over the decades, only a handful of which are easy to find on streaming, and most of which are major departures from the traditional version of the character.

The most famous Zorro movies to modern audiences are probably the pair directed by Martin Campbell: The Mask of Zorro from 1998 (written by John Eskow, Ted Elliott, and Terry Rossio) and its 2005 sequel The Legend of Zorro (written by Roberto Orci & Alex…

My latest entry on the Fiction tier is “Invasion of the Dreamers,” a novelette-length tale of a turbulent first contact with beings so alien in body and mind that it’s difficult to convince them the humans they endanger are even real.