I was pretty pleased last week to see the British PM get around to issuing an apology for their government’s treatment of Alan Turing. Being a computer geek, and a bit of a crypto amateur, the things done at Bletchley Park generally, and by Turing specifically (and not just during the war), are things of interest to me. Being a,… Read more →
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How about a Saturday Bookish Links roundup?
On my last excursion to Boston, while I sadly did not get to do the Readercon thingRound-the-clock meetings suck. Next job I work only in North American time zones–the global economy can go hang., I did get to pick up a couple of more Centipede Press books that I had directed to my US mail drop (a.k.a. “Matt’s house”): a… Read more →
Just Read, To Read
The last book I read: Lye Street by Alan Campbell. I read Scar Night earlier this year during my Australian sojurn, and thought it was quite good, especially for a first novel. This is a prequel that focuses primarily on two storylines: one that highlights the madness of the angel Carnival, the other of which deals with the reconstruction of… Read more →
Election Results: Pissing On Your Parade
If you see a crazy guy in the street punching himself in the face with both fists, how does it make you feel? What if he’s got a big nuclear bomb strapped to his chest? Now, how would you feel if after watching this for SIX YEARS, the man stopped punching himself in the face WITH ONE HAND? Yeah, that’s… Read more →
Something to look forward to in 2007
I was quite pleased to see this: July 2007 Territory by Emma Bull (new hardcover) On PNH’s list of stuff he (and Teresa) have edited. I’ve been patiently waiting for Emma’s next book since 1997 (or 1994, if you want to get picky about the possessive). It was harder to be patient after I heard her read from (what must… Read more →
QOTD
“I’m sorry to be so short with you, but you are making as much sense as someone who asserts that World War II began when Delaware attacked Batman.” — PNH I am likely going to use that, or a simple variant thereof, in some future discussion where someone is starting from completely, objectively, wrong premises. (Cowardly caveat: Note that this… Read more →
SF Authors (and editors) saying more smart things…
We’ll grab a couple of them today: Will Shetterly talking about Mormon underwear: Here’s one way to tell a faith from a racket: If it makes you think you’re better than everyone else, it’s a racket, not a faith. I kind of love that. It’s the answer to all the “One True Religion” and “Chose People of X” things that… Read more →
The social relations of business
Gwenda points to an interesting discussion at Asimov’s message board. Apparently the magazine (or rather, the managing editor) had purchased a story from Jim Grimsley (author of the nifty book The Ordinary, and a bunch of other stuff I haven’t read yet), and the owners of the magazine ordered the story killed. As you can imagine, this has ruffled some… Read more →
What I’m Not Doing This Weekend
For quite a long time, I had reserved this weekend for a trip to Madison to attend this year’s World Fantasy Convention. I’ve always enjoyed WFC when I’ve attended it before, and I was looking forward to meeting a bunch of authors I like, as well as having a chance to see old friends again, and have old friends introduce… Read more →
Hump Of Hate: Texas Textbooks
So, I’ve talked a lot about textbooks, primarily about the religously-motivated alterations of their content; most recently it was the homophobic alterations of Texas texts. Now I read in a post at Ambiguous.org that because a number of Southern states buy their texts as a bloc, lead by Texas, that the national publishers are self-censoring their content so that it… Read more →
Bill “McCarthy” Gates
So, Bill Gates apparently thinks that people with different notions of intellectual property from him are commies. This kind of bounces off of me, since as a Canadian I am considered a crypto-communist by most Americans anyway, and as a leftist NDP I’m considered a bit of a communist by lots of Canadians too, but it’s a less frivolous matter… Read more →
