This afternoon I heard more hand-wringing from yet another commentator (this one an author, Eric Weiner, on NPR) about the demise of paper books and the rise of electronic editions. Here’s an excerpt: I’m confident that I’ll still get my fair share from each e-book sold. But as an author, I’m not after your money. [...]
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e-books, hard copies, hook-ups and wives
Astounding Stories of Super-Science
Thank you, Gutenberg, for the retro-SF fix. Love the smiling-yet-menacing robot with the skinny legs. Check out the full issue here: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30177/30177-h/30177-h.htm
writing wisdom learned in ballroom dance class
My birthday present to myself this year was a ballroom dancing class, taken with my sweetie. On the first day we arrived at the South Park Rec Building VERY nervous, being the only F/F couple in the group (of maybe a dozen or more couples), but our dance instructors Shirley and Blue (who are in [...]
highbrow and lowbrow
On his site, ConceptualFiction.com, Ted Gioia asks, “Did sci-fi writers from the 1940s and 1950s anticipate the future of serious literature better than the so-called “serious writers” or, for that matter, the highbrow critics?” Yes. This essay is dear to my heart, as one who loves Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities just as much as Ursula [...]
The relative historical value of “a quiverfull of sons”
Read a bit on Skepchick about the “Quiverfull” movement the other day (go ahead, it’s a quick read, I’ll wait right here), and the whole concept of this group and others like it existing today highlights the need to understand culture as a response to environment and an attempt at solving real-world problems people are [...]