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Margaret Atwood is one of those authors who has written some excellent SF but is still well-accepted in “literary” circles. She had a piece in the arts section of last Friday’s The Guardian on why we need science fiction. The Agony Column has an interesting piece on how the SF Book Club’s mailings seem […]
Using blogs and the web as a source for “grassroots” journalism seems to be a rising meme. But, surprise, suprise, one of the first great experiments seems to have gone quickly aground.
The LA Times decided to try “wikatorials,” online editorials that any reader could edit. The project, which started last Friday, ended early Sunday […]
While not large, a certain percentage of books I start end up being put aside. There isn’t necessarily a common thread to that decision but it’s something I began thinking about because of the most recent book on which I punted.
The book is the latest by (but my first experience with) a bestselling novelist […]
As promised, Charles Stross has made his new book, Accelerando available in electronic format for free. It’s available via this website. He announced the e-book’s availability this morning in a post to a usenet newsgroup. After that, he had 4,000 downloads in the first four hours.
The newsgroup, devoted to discussion of written science fiction, […]
At least some semblance of sanity temporarily descended on the US House Wednesday. It voted 238-187 to amend a bill appropriating money for the Department of Justice to prohibit funds in the bill from being used to implement a portion of Patriot Act that permits certain searches of library circulation records, library patron lists, book […]
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