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I have been a Kurt Vonnegut fan for as long as I can remember. That doesn’t mean I think everything he’s written is golden. There are some stinkers. But when you learn that you share some of the same worldview as that writer, you ponder whether that commonality also impacted your assessment of his writing […]
The shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker Prize was announced today. The prize goes to “the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the [British] Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.” The six books emerging from the 17 on the longlist are: The Sea by John Banville; Arthur & George by Julian […]
Accelerando will make your brain hurt — but in a good sort of way.
Actually a unified collection of nine previously published novelettes, Charles Stross may very well have written a seminal work in science fiction. Seminal not only in exploring where humanity may be going in the next several decades but in making a […]
Final preparations are underway to launch Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes in fireworks shells fired from a cannon on his property in Colorado. The launch is tonight at a private ceremony with about 250 invited guests. At least they found one way the king of gonzo journalism hasn’t previously used to get high.
The towers are […]
From today’s NYT headlines e-mail: “Publishers are issuing new paperbacks in a bigger size for baby boomers who are finding it harder and harder to read small type.” Story here. (If prompted for user name and password, head over to BugMeNot). Google’s blog announces it has temporarily suspended scanning any in-copyright books into Google Print. […]
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