Alternative & inventive uses of this thing called teh Book
Heidi said it well — looking at this leaves you somewhere between admiration and wanting to cringe.
Finding Your Voice - making your writing sound like you.
for the first time, a science fiction and fantasy convention coming to an internet line near you. That’s right, Sherwood Smith and a few others have organized an online con that can be attended by everyone in the world.
Never say die: why we can’t imagine death
From Scientific American, an experiment and thoughts on the afterlife. The hypothesis here is that the afterlife is less a product of religion, and perhaps more a by-product of the development of human self-consciousness. Fascinating.
curious what people are saying in locked, private Twitter posts? it can be done, (or could when I read this a while back).
the book this article is inspired by sounds fascinating. The article itself is perhaps more encouraging right now to those writers&artists who don’t hit their stride early on. Very long, but worth reading.
this is just so cool..
Stephen King on manfiction and the alleged death of the male reader. Entertaining!
The Feminine Mystique of romance novels
an interesting take on romance novels, adopting an opposite viewpoint of most that I see in this regard — that the books are actually about how a man needs a woman to complete him.
a website devoted to bookmarks. more interesting than it sounds. really really.
It’s my new word for linksharing posts. The category still remains linksharing. After some thought, I’ve deactivated the Stumble plugin and will at most put up one post per week with some selected tidbits I’ve stumbled across.
tongue in cheek definitions of literary terms; my personal favourite is Experimental fiction
Women writing Science Fiction: Voices from the trenches
fascinating discussion by a number of notable female writers in the SF&F field as to what’s changed in the genre and whether gender bias exsits and how.
the mermaid hoax perpetrated by PT Barnum in the 1880’s.
In defense of Happily ever after
SF needs to find its vision, says Ian MacDonald. I’ll agree here, also feels too much like that science fiction, moreso than fantasy, runs on a combination of nostalgia and tech pursuit. and the genre can be so much, much more. easier said than done, of course.
On Forced Friending
what the man said. I do find this one of the more bizarre traits of entitlement on the web. (do read his previous posts on this topic as well).
First Look: Read and Review Tomorrow’s Books Today, Harpercollins Publishers
now this is a cool idea. HarperCollins makes early reader copies available for review to the reading public. Signing up is free, but you have to be a citizen of the USA. bah on that last one. but anyways, this is a step I approve of by a publishing house.
TweetDeck Update Offers UI Customization, New Features
best twitter desktop application I’ve yet seen. this is an excellent write up of its features.
outrage and shock at a newspaper that publishes daily! The Onion in fine form.
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