Posts Tagged ‘Steve Brust’

Bookish Links On A Friday Night

Friday, January 29th, 2010

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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Thursday evening notes

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Watching Maine becoming #5 this week, it occurs to me that while the process may be terribly slow from the perspective of people who just want to be treated equally (and I know I can only say that off-handedly since I already have all the privileges–white, male, straight, etc.) the whole thing is pretty much [...]

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Proud and Unrepentant: Part 1

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

So, if you say “proud and unrepentant figures of literature” what pops into your head?
If you’re me (and I suspect a lot of other people) the answer is “Lucifer”.
Unlike many people who would answer that way though, my first exposure to the idea of Lucifer as a sympathetic character didn’t come from Milton, it came [...]

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SF Authors (and editors) saying more smart things…

Sunday, August 6th, 2006

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” [...]

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