"And they are dancing, the board floor slamming under the jackboots and the fiddlers grinning hideously over their canted pieces. Towering over them all is the judge and he is naked and dancing, his small feet lively and quick and now in doubletime and bowing to the ladies, huge and pale and hairless, like an enormous infant. He never sleeps, he says. He says he will never die. He bows to the fiddlers and sashays backwards and throws back his head and laughs deep in his throat and he is a great favorite, the judge. He wafts his hat and the lunar dome of his skull passes palely under the lamps and he swings about and takes possession of one of the fiddles and he pirouettes and makes a pass, two passes, dancing and fiddling at once. His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die." - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

"And his face broke into a tender, bold, whimsical smile as the red stars went out like coals and time contracted to a single moment and thought closed in on itself and it was the end." - Fritz Leiber, "Last"

Current Works:
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles:

The Titanomachia Trilogy:
In the Hands of an Angry Machine: The story starts near the end of "Earthlings Welcome Here" and quickly goes AU. It's John/Cameron centric, but follows all of the characters.

Mother is the Name for God: The sequel to "In the Hands of an Angry Machine."

Some of my favorite books:

Fiction:
"The Long Price Quartet" by Daniel Abraham
Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks
A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr
"The Warlord Chronicles" by Bernard Cornwell
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
"The Engineer Trilogy," by K. J. Parker
The Hammer by K.J. Parker
Earth Abides, by George R. Stewart
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Nonfiction:
Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma by Robert B Asprey
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, by David Chalmers
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor by Anthony Everitt
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William Manchester
Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough
A Place for Consciousness: Probing the Deep Structure of the Natural World, by Gregg Rosenberg
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous Fourteenth Century,by Barbara Tuchman

Favorite Short Stories

"The Gravity Mine" by Stephen Baxter
"Last Contact" by Stephen Baxter
"Reality Check" by David Brin
"Superiority" by Arthur C. Clarke
"The Children's Story" by James Clavell
"Last" by Fritz Leiber
". . . for a single yesterday" by George R. R. Martin
"What Weena Knew" by James Van Pelt
"The Things" by Peter Watts
"Daddy's World" by Walter Jon Williams

What I've read recently:
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William Manchester
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt by David McCullough
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
Sharps by K. J. Parker
The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham
The King's Blood by Daniel Abraham
Matter by Iain M. Banks
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey

What I'm reading now:
The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagin