10 month ago
Linkorama : Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90 - Arthur C. Clarke, a visionary science fiction writer who won worldwide acclaim with more than 100 books on space, science and the future, died Wednesday in his adopted home of Sri Lanka, an aide said. He was 90.
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19 month ago
adamrg : Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted - Cory is understandably crushed by this news. I had suspected that the authoritarian government that was represented in the 1967 film was partially responsible for this view of the book.
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21 month ago
adamrg : Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84 - New York Times - Well, this seems like as good a time as any to churn through his works again.
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36 month ago
WillPate : Ross Gelbspan's blog | deSmogBlog - Author of "Boiling Point" is blogging on the deSmogBlog, a blog about PR spin and climate change, and Raincity Studios client site
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41 month ago
erikbenson : Jonathan Ames's blog - The Stranger has an article about him, and I happen to be reading and loving all his books at the moment... not committing suicide in the process.
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47 month ago
plasticbag : Hunter S Thompson commits suicide - "Hunter S Thompson, the American counterculture writer, has been found dead at his home in Colorado."
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plasticbag : Steven Berlin Johnson moots two types of writers - those who own a space and those that traverse multiple spaces - which seems to have resonance to those of us whose work traverses subject areas - For a while in 2000/2001 it felt like I could have become a pundit or consultant around weblogs of all things, but I went in another direction and then another after that. I wonder if that was the right thing to do...
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kellan : "Despite a truly impressive ability to self-promote, Robert J. Sawyer is neither one of the best nor one of the most interesting writers of science fiction today" - Sherryl Vint reads all 3 'Humans' books so you don't have to, but I'd add that gender isn't the only thing he does badly. #
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56 month ago
kellan : Reading Forty Signs of Rain - KSR enters into 'Day After Tomorrow' terriroty. #
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56 month ago
kellan : Aidan saw Aral and Cordelia at BayCon (Bujold at Baycon) - Before doing his David Bowie impression #
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56 month ago
kellan : Mean while Whump is hearing how Mile's wedding was originally published in Croatian (Bujold at WisCon) - For a year or so copies of Winterfair Gifts 'back-ported' from Croatian were some of the most highly covetted items in fandom. #
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