Yeah, there are a few shirts at Out Of Print that I would totally wear… but there’s only one Immediate Must Buy.
I wish it were black, or at least something dark, but there is no denying the power of Bulgarkov and his book. And hey, good cause.
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Sphinx And Medusa
Clark Ashton Smith
The old constraint of an essential bond
Hath linkt them in my mind: opposed they stare,
Twin silences, that through Time’s Otherwhere,
The ruinous past, thus each to each respond,
One with mysterious gaze that sees beyond
The straining suns, calm as the voidness there;
And one with eyes like deserts of despair,
Flameless as granite, clear as [...]
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And I did like this one when I found it at greybon.
What’s a book you most want to read again for the first time?:
Oh, that’s a tough one. I’d probably want to pick something that changed my head in some significant way, which biases the field in favour of things I read earlier in my [...]
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Having just mentioned that I prefer transcript to video, let me cite another case where I would make an exception.
Here’s a quote from an IM chat I was having with a Boston pal last week:
(9:15:32 AM) Chris: Friday 7pm
The Singularity: An Appraisal
Alastair Reynolds
Karl Schroeder
Charles Stross
Vernor Vinge
Arguably the idea of the Singularity — a period [...]
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You know the drill: links with pithy comments.
Let’s start off this list with Jo Walton costing me a pile of money. I’ve mentioned before enjoying her Tor.com reviews, and finding significant alignment between her tastes and mine… so when she reviews a series of spy novels that I somehow have never even heard of, and [...]
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Many things these days contribute to my lack of sleep–social activity, parent scheduling, social evenings in different cities, my stubborn refusal to go to sleep when I should, time spent playing with the world through this Internet thing, and–of course–things I start to read when I should go to bed that I just-can’t-put-down.
Sometimes you can [...]
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What does it say about me that when I followed a link to the website for the upcoming Naked Girls Reading Science Fiction show, I was frustrated that the site had lots of information about (and pictures of) the “girls” who would be reading, but no information about what science fiction they would be reading?
(0 Comments)I mentioned that I’ve started the process of unpacking my books in the new house. I began with the mass-market paperbacks, for a few reasons:
they’re the smallest bit of the collection, so they present a relatively undaunting place to start
The place where I wanted to put them was ready–unlike the room that will be [...]
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Well, the most interesting book world story right now is surely the whole hardball face-off between Amazon and Macmillan. I expect the most interesting discussion at Making Light.
It’s been a pretty depressing week in the book world: too many stories of authors dying. I guess there will only be more and more stories about the [...]
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If you are at all interested in how the business of publishing may change in response to some current disruptive technology shifts–and particularly if you’re interested in looking at the question from an author’s point of view–you should really pop over to Charlie Stross’ blog and read his post there outlining some thoughts on the question and asking for reader comments. This is one of those cases where the “don’t read the comments” rule does not apply: there are a couple of hundred comments there now with a pretty high signal-to-noise ratio, and lots of interesting (and some very scary) ideas are being kicked around.
(0 Comments)“The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” If I am recalling correctly, that’s a Proust line. I’ve always liked that formulation–it ties into both what I think one of the main points of travel is1, and into that Zen-ish notion of trying to always come [...]
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While I’m posting about lovely things what you can get from the InterTubes for free, I should also point out that the most recent issue of Clarkesworld Magazine is out and that it contains something of particular interest to me.
See, as you probably know, I’m a fan of Peter Watts’ writing. And before the whole [...]
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Generally speaking I hate this time of year on the Internet–I am so tired of year-end wrapups, best of lists, etc. It’s even worst this year, since it’s also the end of a decade. Enough with the lists.
Having said that, I did see one list that actually got my attention: Paul Witcover’s list of his [...]
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Since the girls are gone for a couple of days, I am in Unemployed-Until-January Bachelor mode today.
This means that I slept in, and that upon waking I was allowed to relish the rare opportunity to lie about in bed and read something without needing to rush off to something or other.
Since it is a mini-bachelor [...]
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Nice to see the Watts story get some coverage on one of the larger political blogs.
I quite like this bit:
It’s ironic, though, that the same day I was arrested one Mary Callahan, chief privacy officer for Homeland Security, was up here in Canada reassuring us that the border isn’t so bad a place after all, [...]
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