Locus has published their list of recommended books for last year. I’m doing pretty well on the novels. Science Fiction Novels The Life of the World to Come, Kage Baker (Tor) (got it, read it) The Algebraist, Iain M. Banks (Orbit)(got it, read it) Exultant, Stephen Baxter (Gollancz; Del Rey) Spondulix, Paul Di Filippo (Cambrian)(planning to get it) Eastern Standard… Read more →
Day: January 30, 2005
Media Objectivity in the 21st century
If you’ve been paying attention, then you will have noticed that Dan Gillmor recently stopped writing for the old media and has set out to explore the idea of ‘grassroots journalism‘ in this new century. One of the things he’s rethinking is the notion of objectivity in the media, and he has a lot of interesting thoughts. For example: Fairness… Read more →
Cintra Wilson Interview
I generally enjoy Cintra Wilson‘s pop culture columns on Salon–enough that I picked up her essay collection, A Massive Swelling–so I am looking forward to seeing how she does as a novelist. Descriptions I have read of her novel, Colors Insulting To Nature, make it sound like a farce about our culture’s obsession with fame, which sounds like it could… Read more →
Edmund Burke wishes he could have written like this
This post will be a bunch of quotations from a great man. Words that I think are very important in these times when we seem to be suffering from a very dangerous lack of outrage. “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against… Read more →
