{"id":974,"date":"2007-08-23T23:50:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T03:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/thursday-night-bookish-links\/"},"modified":"2009-02-27T23:39:15","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T03:39:15","slug":"thursday-night-bookish-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/23\/thursday-night-bookish-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Night Bookish Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some bookish links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have you read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vernor_Vinge\">Vernor Vinge<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/True_Names\">True Names<\/a>? If you haven&#8217;t then &#8220;for shame&#8221;. According to the Wikipedia entry &#8220;It was one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to stories in the cyberpunk genre. Because of this, it is often referenced as a seminal work of the genre.&#8221; That&#8217;s in 1981.  The quote from Wired was &#8220;Many Net veterans cite True Names as a seminal influence that shaped their ideas about Net policy. It became a cult classic among hackers and presaged everything from Internet interactive games to Neuromancer.&#8221; Hell, there&#8217;s even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/True-Names-Opening-Cyberspace-Frontier\/dp\/0312862075\">an edition<\/a> that reprints the story along with essays about how the story affected science and science fiction. PW refers to the &#8220;&#8230;testimonials by pioneers in virtual reality, cryptography and artificial intelligence&#8221;, which should give you some idea about the relative importance of the story. Anyway, if you haven&#8217;t read it, and you don&#8217;t want to spring for that edition, there is a solution. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051127010734\/http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~kngjon\/truename\/truename.html\">read it online<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Vinge, did you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xfire.com\/cms\/xf_scifi_week_hugo_transcript\/\">read the transcript<\/a> of the online session he did with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipope.org\/\">Stross<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/real\/author.htm\">Peter Watts<\/a>? I&#8217;ll suffer typos gladly to read what those guys have to say. Some of the questions make me cringe, though.<\/li>\n<li>I know it&#8217;s old news at this point, but if you haven&#8217;t gone to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffvandermeer.com\">Jeff Vandermeer<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkfantasy.org\/shriek\/shriek_video.htm\">movie version<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shriekthenovel.com\/\">Shriek<\/a>, you should <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffvandermeer.com\/2007\/08\/14\/shriek-the-movie-released-on-internet\/\">go do it now<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/search\/ci_6620943?nclick_check=1\">The secret code is cracked<\/a>, and it turns out that Adobe is broadcasting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Crying_of_Lot_49\">The Crying Of Lot 49<\/a>. That&#8217;s pretty cool. Really damn cool, actually. I wonder if they had permission, though, given that it&#8217;s still a copyrighted work. (Not that I care&#8211;I download things from the internet!).<\/li>\n<li>Did you see where Strange Horizons <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/reviews\/2007\/07\/the_first_book_.shtml\">reviewed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/reviews\/2007\/07\/the_second_book.shtml\">all<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/reviews\/2007\/07\/the_third_book_.shtml\">four<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/reviews\/2007\/07\/the_fourth_book.shtml\">parts<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Crowley\">Crowley<\/a>&#8216;s brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%86gypt\">Aegypt sequence<\/a>? While I love my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcrw.net\/crowley\/index.htm\">Small Beer Press edition<\/a> of the fourth book, I have the others in trade paper and I&#8217;d really love to see a nice slipcased supa-swank edition. Something like the (hopefully forthcoming in my lifetime) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlebig25.com\/\">edition of Little Big<\/a> that I&#8217;m waiting for.<\/li>\n<li>He had me at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeffrey_Ford\">Ford<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/amongamidwhile.blogspot.com\/\">Lanagan<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_Sterling\">Sterling<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanstrahan.com.au\/wp\/eclipse\/\">the rest of the list<\/a> ain&#8217;t bad either.<\/li>\n<li>I would like a book-length version of <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/009290.html\">The Dream-Quest Of Pooh Corner<\/a>. Sarah and I could read it together.<\/li>\n<li>Any day now: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor-forge.com\/NewsArticle.aspx?articleId=530\">podcasts from Tor<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>For those who take the &#8220;interest in writer&#8217;s process porn&#8221; way too far, check out comic writer and novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antonyjohnston.com\/\">Antony Johnston<\/a> talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antonyjohnston.com\/gtw\/\">how he makes Getting Things Done work for a writer<\/a> rather than the more traditional job types for that kind of process.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/trashotron.com\/agony\/\">The Agony Column<\/a> (oft-mentioned here) has <a href=\"http:\/\/trashotron.com\/agony\/news\/2007\/08-20-07.htm#082107\">an MP3 interview with Small Beer people<\/a>, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/08\/23\/interview_with_kelly.html\">cited on BoingBoing<\/a> with a lot of relevant links. Check out that MP3, if only to hear Gavin Grant&#8217;s dulcet tones and hearty accent.<\/li>\n<li>Those <a href=\"http:\/\/suicidegirls.com\/\">softcore goth pr0n girls<\/a> have <a href=\"http:\/\/suicidegirls.com\/interviews\/Jhonen+Vasquez\/\">an interview<\/a> with comics (and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Invader_Zim\">Invader Zim<\/a>) creator <a href=\"http:\/\/chancrescolex.livejournal.com\/\">Jhonen<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jhonen_Vasquez\">Vasquez<\/a>. I loves me some <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Feel_Sick\">I Feel Sick<\/a>, and I have a special place for Zim in my heart, so I&#8217;ll risk going over there to read it.<\/li>\n<li>Free <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeffrey_Ford\">Jeff Ford<\/a> story!! In <a href=\"http:\/\/14theditch.livejournal.com\/132508.html\">two<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/14theditch.livejournal.com\/132260.html\">parts<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dashiell_Hammett\">Hammett<\/a>, or you like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thuntek.net\/~walter\/\">Walter Jon Williams<\/a>, or like me you greatly admire the works of both, you should read <a href=\"http:\/\/walterjonwilliams.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/thin-man-thin-book.html\">this short post<\/a> where WJW talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Maltese_Falcon\">the Maltese Falcon<\/a>. I had never previously thought about how the book or movie would have felt when first experienced without preconceptions&#8211;it was already well in the background by the time I came along, and it&#8217;s worth the read just for Walter&#8217;s reflections on that point.<\/li>\n<li>No, really, who is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kjparker.com\/\">K. J. Parker<\/a> a pseudonym for? I just don&#8217;t buy the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edlin.org\/holt\/\">Tom Holt<\/a> story. Although I think it would be interesting if it really was his wife. Am I wrong? Shouldn&#8217;t I be able to find this out with Google in this day and age?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Some bookish links: Have you read Vernor Vinge&#8216;s True Names? If you haven&#8217;t then &#8220;for shame&#8221;. According to the Wikipedia entry &#8220;It was one of the earliest stories to present a fully fleshed-out concept of cyberspace, which would later be central to stories in the cyberpunk genre. 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