A bit of a quiet week here at BSC. Our standard television coverage was in place, but book reviews were slow and guests did not darken our doorstep. Then again, we did go out to the movies and devoted endless hours conquering not one but two video games this week, so perhaps things weren’t so quiet, after all. If you were too busy going out to movies, finishing quests of your own, or watching your football team cruise to the title game to check in every day, have no fear! I’ve got your cheat sheet, my weekly run-down of our original content so that you can be sure you didn’t miss something awesome.
Interviews
amberdrake has the chance to grill author Ken Scholes about his Psalms of Isaak series, mixing writing with fatherhood, and more
BSC guest Jesse Bullington interviews (or tries, anyway) two of his own characters as he sits down for Coffee and Conversation with Hegel and Manfried Grossbart
Book Reviews
We kick off a revisiting of some of Jay’s old book reviews this week with Alastair Reynolds’ Revelation Space
Switchblade has released its second title under the imprint, Summer Brenner’s I-5, and Brian thinks it’s up there with the best in dark crime fiction
amberdrake pickee up Elizabeth Bear’s By the Mountain Bound and found it a difficult read likely to be of most interest to fans of her All the Windwracked Stars
The Blade of Tyshalle by Matthew Stover is up next on the list of Jay’s old reviews
At the Movies
BSC introduces our new Twilight correspondent, Samantha Corley, who braved a midnight showing of New Moon, which she said was better than she expected
The Week in Television
Katelin called it “just a regular week on Wisteria Lane” as the Desperate Housewives contend with clergical bribery, surprise pregnancy, and naked peepers in “The Coffee Cup”
Gerald So thought The Big Bang Theory handled its main plot much better than its B side this week with “The Adhesive Duck Deficiency”
“Point of Impact” was, for Scott Parker, an unfortuante step down for CSI: Miami in the wake of last week’s big CSI Crossover event
Castle turned in another solid episode with “Love Me Dead,” even if Castle was handed the dull card this week
Gerald So thought both NCIS “Power Down” and NCIS: Los Angeles “Ambush” were above-average episodes this week
“Ballads” was, for Matt Cibula, Glee‘s most disappointing episode this season–but he’s not jumping off the wagon just yet
Bones had a surprisingly touching episode for Gerald So this week, in part due to Ralph Waite’s guest appearance on “The Foot in the Foreclosure”
The Vampire Diaries had another intense episode that delivered everything its title promised in terms of plot developments with “The Turning Point”
Gaming
B.T. Robertson offers his Final Review of DragonAge: Origins on the Playstation 3
Eli blows through Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 with his usual acerbically thorough analysis
Columns
Charles Tan reads us another entry from A Stalker’s Notebook as he muses on the different markets for mass-market paperbacks and Hardcover Madness
Orbit’s Spring/Summer 2010 catalog has been released, and Damon goes through it with commentary on what’s catching his eye with this edition of Damon’s Noise
Webcomic
BSC is proud to debut our new exclusive webcomic, Finder Incorporated by Writer/Artist duo Liezl Buenaventura and Nathan Ooten! Read Page 1, Page 2, and Page 3 now, and check back every week for more!
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