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Tough to improve on what Sci-Fi Heaven says about the movie-going public: It’s a sad state of affairs when the mind-numbing gun-em-down monster flick based on a video game [DOOM] grosses more than the intelligent, witty, character-driven Serenity.Grr to you, America. Wanted to mention a new addition to the blogroll. It’s Synthaetic Synapse, basically […] Although I’ve moved from PC hell to PC purgatory (my Catholic upbringing is showing), I remain far behind on a variety of things. So here’s a link version of a number of items, several of which were initially intended for longer posts. More substantive posting to resume shortly. As a follow-up to my illiterati post, […] A few items of interest that passed my screen recently: John Banville wins the Mann Booker Prize for The Sea (evidently slated for US release in March). If you believe The Guardian, it won by one vote over Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. There seems to be much gossip over a reported rift over […] Seems to be plenty of odds and ends of interest in the book-related world: I had not heard of this award before but the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage seems pretty interesting. It has been given annually since 2003 as a world prize for “reportage literature.” Past winners are a work on […] I see via The Agony Column that Vintage Books has completed publicatino of all of Philip K. Dick’s SF novels with the release of Dr. Futurity. If you hadn’t heard already, Yahoo has launched the Open Content Alliance in response to Google Print. Both seek to digitize book content. Google Print, however, has been sued […] |
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