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| Saturday, July 26th, 2008 | |
| 9:34 am | A Prime Books Discussion A small link roundup of authors discussing their experiences with Prime Books. |
| Friday, July 25th, 2008 | |
| 11:13 pm | Words fail me Well, not so much for this first one but I have no appropriate comments for the second one. Pointed out to me by the Cardamom Addict. |
| 12:48 pm | More ReformaTory PR This was also printed on the cheap in black and white and looks more like something the tinfoil hat brigade might have come up with to warn the populace about the terrible menace of CHUD. The topic in this one is the shadowy menace of YOUTH CRIME (as represented by a masked kid in a hoodie) and that the ReformaTories are dealing with the issue. |
| Thursday, July 24th, 2008 | |
| 3:54 pm | N. Robin Crossby (1954 - 2008) Crossby, the creator of the Harn setting, is reported to have succumbed to his cancer on July 23rd. |
| 12:28 pm | A question I don't feel qualified to answer Quicktongue asked me the following question in comments: [C]an you suggest any good book review blogs? Suggestions? |
| 10:48 am | Hespira: A Tale of Henghis Hapthorn by Matthew Hughes Night Shade Books is about to release Hespira: A Tale of Henghis Hapthorn by Matthew Hughes, the first chapter of which can be found here. |
| 9:40 am | Something that I didn't know until yesterday What's the connection between Arlo Guthrie and Norman Rockwell? |
| Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 | |
| 3:38 pm | Addressing an oversight on the part of Asimov Apparently while he published books that got put into nine of the ten catagories in the Dewey Decimal system, he never had anything that fell in the 100s (philosophy). Surely it would be possible to cherry-pick from his essays to assemble a book that would qualify? |
| 3:05 pm | |
| 10:26 am | Prometheus Award Winners Via ffutures and papersky: This year produced a tie for the Prometheus Award: Jo Walton's Ha'Penny Harry Turtledove's The Gladiator Both are published by Tor Books. This is the first tie ever for this award and also the first time in the 29 year history of this award that a female author has won [1] (A number of women have won the Hall of Fame Award and by "a number", I mean the number two). Congratulations to both winners. I assume that for the purposes of this award, Harry Turtledove will be considered some kind of left-leaning [2] Celt. Oddly, I don't think I ever saw Gladiator, let alone read it. Rather than split the award money in two, my impression is that the two winners will each get one full ounce of gold. Sadly, this is in the shape of a coin and not a small statuette of Ayn Rand strangling Tommy Douglas. Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange got the Hall of Fame Award. 1: Ah, you giddy Libertarians. You always know how to make the Hugos look gender balanced. 2: By the standards of the US. Yeah, yeah, bar so low we needed to dig a trench for it. |
| Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 | |
| 1:38 pm | The pain! The pain! Why should only usenet newsgroup readers suffer? |
| Monday, July 21st, 2008 | |
| 1:51 pm | Models for toy universes Yes, I know I hit send before filling out the article. Let's see how many people comment on that before I am done editing. Standard disclaimer: presenting something is not the same as advocating it. Case in point, this short article, which seems a bit long on earnest assertation and short on actual evidence. It's good enough for a quick future history, though you may want to take this site's ideas with a grain of salt. |
| 8:31 am | Cordwainer Smith Award Winner Announced This year's winner of the Cordwainer Smith Rediscover Award is Stanley G. Weinbaum, whose career was cut short by cancer less than two years after his first story was published. Normally I'd link to the award site in question but it doesn't seem to have been updated in a while (The most recent winner I can see is 2004's and while Robert Silverberg, Gardner Dozois, John Clute, and Scott Edelman are impressive names to have on a jury, SF Awards claims that the current jury is Barry Malzberg, Gordon van Gelder, Martin H. Greenberg, and Mike Resnick) so have the handful of Weinbaum stories that have made it to Gutenberg instead. |
| Sunday, July 20th, 2008 | |
| 11:22 pm | My good act for the day I didn't watch any of Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog and so my voice will not be among the legions complaining about whatever tragic and fatal flaw it turned out to have. |
| 11:16 pm | Putting on the dog I was walking to the exgf's when I saw a woman walking a golden retriever. The dog suddenly lay down like an animal picking a place to die and it was obvious from the woman's body language that the dog would not get back up. On the off chance that the dog was in fact sick, I went over. As soon as I asked if they needed help the dog lept to its feet, restored to full health. I then learned that this is something the dog does to get attention from strangers, and that no, my help was not required. Yipee. I am an enabler. To misbehaving dogs. As I walked away, the dog flopped back on to the grass with a mournful look. |
| 2:28 pm | Publishing: Arbitrary and Unfair, entry N A minor error is keeping one of Elizabeth Bear's Ink & Steel from being easily ordered from one particular distributor. |
| 1:47 pm | |
| 11:46 am | Data, please Is there a convenient online source for total number of books sold by year in North America, one that lists how many individual volumes were sold? |
| 11:23 am | What I learned from the first half of The Host. When a strange animal the size of a pick-up truck drops from the underside of a bridge and then swims over to the crowd of people watching it, the correct response is not to throw beer cans at it. |
| Friday, July 18th, 2008 | |
| 11:22 pm | As pointed out to me by Jasmine of Confessions of a Cardamom Addict, a recipe for Flying Spaghetti Monster Treats |