In whatever form you celebrate, or by whatever name, I hope yours is a happy one.

I had fun finding all the quotations from great speculative fiction for my “advent” calendar. Now I realize, though, that I picked them all willy-nilly, no rhyme or reason, so I left out many fantastic books I wish I had included. Next year!

Meanwhile, as my gift to you:

Jubjub the cat spent his own holiday swatting flying eyeballs out of a fantasy sky, helping me play a fantasy mmorpg. And stopping from time to time to prowl behind my monitor to see if he could chomp down on the bad guys he just KNEW must be lurking back there.