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Cory Doctorow writes, over at Boing Boing: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America has used the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to fraudulently remove numerous non-infringing works from Scribd, a site that allows the general public to share text files with...
Dragoncon pics!
I'll be adding to the collection over the weekend... unless my camera is dead.
Cherie Priest’s Dreadful Skin
I read this ages ago, but haven't written about it here. Well, work is keeping me crazy, and my short fiction turnarounds are insane, so... This was a very enjoyable read. I liked part one, "The Wreck of the Mary Byrd," the best. It just appealed to me the most,...
Meh.
Summaries are hard. Let's do math rebuild a RAID array instead!
Lyda Morehouse’s AngeLINK series
I think most of the people who regularly read this blog have already read this series, but for those of you who haven't...I love these books to complete irrational distraction, and if you haven't read them, you should! I should probably tell you to read them for...
Intent, Schmintent.
Every now and then I go out to someone's author blog or something, and they have a post like, "I'm a writer because when I write I'm GOD. I create entire universes and control everything in them. All of creation and destruction lie in my hands! Mwahahahaha!" I'm not...
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.