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Monthly Archives: August 2007
New David Brin short story on Concatenation
Reality Check by David Brin is online at the Concatenation website. They also have an archive of Nature’s Future stories as well, usually a really good read.
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The Guardian blog goes noir
Ned Beauman over at the Guardian has run this piece on noir graphic novels. It is an intriguing, if really short, overview of the problems of creating noir fiction and he mentions some excellent writers, like Brian Bendis and Warren … Continue reading
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PKD at the New Yorker
The New Yorker has a piece on Philip K Dick (which the Total Dickhead blog caught). It is an interesting piece that takes Dick’s work for, well, Dick’s work.
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Digested Gibson
I was going to hold off posting about these until I’d finished reading the book but the John Crace has a digested read of Spook Country and Tim Adams interviewed him in the Observer.
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Bring great books to your inbox
Daily Lit has a fun little service where you can sign up your email address to receive bitesize chunks of Creative Commonsed books to your inbox. The current sf offering includes Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, Jules Verne and HG Wells.
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Terraforming Earth (it’s cheaper than Mars)
BoingBoing had a post on Karl Schroeder’s great essay on Worldchanging about how thoughts of Martian terraforming could be slightly more practical on Earth (and a darn sight cheaper).
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Dislocated at Recombination
Having signed up a year ago, Recombination very nearly overtook me. I haven’t been back to Cambridge (bar a quick meeting) for about fifteen years but it hasn’t changed much at all. I met up with Ian Whates of Newcon … Continue reading
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The war for minds – Interworld by Michael Reaves and Neil Gaiman
Interworld is a joint novel from Michael Reaves and Neil Gaiman which has grown from a television script to a young adult novel. Joey Harker is adept at getting lost, he simply cannot find his way from A to B. … Continue reading
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Harry Potter goes onwards…
A colleague has just forward me this link from The Register spoofing Harry Potter. Well it put a smile on my face.
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The BBC have announced that Felicity Kendal will be appearing the fourth season of Doctor Who as will Tim McInnerny. In this series he revisits the Ood and also meets Agatha Christie. Catherine Tate will be joining him as a … Continue reading
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