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A review of “iron sunrise” by charlie stross
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Google CEO in defense of Google Print
showing they’re all about the Long Tail Official Google Blog: The point of Google Print Indeed, some of Google Print’s primary beneficiaries will be publishers and authors themselves. Backlist titles comprise the vast majority of books in print and a large portion of many publishers’ profits, but just a fraction of their marketing budgets. Google […]
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Islam in Sci-fi Literature from the creator of Sultanpunk v
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Sounds cool.. from Express India’s Mc Fiction It was over lunch at an Indian restaurant in London that writer Ian McDonald was inspired to choose Varanasi as the backdrop for his next page-turner. My then-editor at Simon and Schuster, John Jarrold and I were wondering why is there so little SF set in, and about […]
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KurzweilAI.net The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil will be published by Viking Press on September 26, 2005. A web site focusing on the book, singularity.com, launched today, includes book excerpts, press coverage, author bio, and other resources. In this much-anticipated sequel to The Age of Spiritual Machines, Kurzweil presents the […]
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How good do these look? Jakarta Post interview with the photographer … Currently, over half of the 25 highest buildings on the planet are in eastern Asian cities: Taipei, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Bangkok to name a few (meanwhile, five of them are in America and none are in Europe). Asian megacities also […]
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Amazon.com starts selling exclusive digital “shorts” Amazon.com Inc. started selling new works of short literature and nonfiction on Friday from authors who write them exclusively for the Internet retailer. It’s not offering printed editions, just digital copies that can be e-mailed, downloaded or printed from a Web site for 49 cents a pop. […]
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Update on Jared Diamond’s work..
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“So Yesterday” was one of the best books I read last year, up there with “Pattern Recognition“. But I’d never heard of the author, Scott Westerfeld, until Cory dropped an excellent review of said book on BoingBoing.. Well, now he’s pimping Westerfeld’s new one, Peeps, and it sure sounds good: Peeps is a science fiction […]
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“So Yesterday” was one of the best books I read last year, up there with “Pattern Recognition“. But I’d never heard of the author, Scott Westerfeld, until Cory dropped an excellent review of said book on BoingBoing.. Well, now he’s pimping Westerfeld’s new one, Peeps, and it sure sounds good: Peeps is a science fiction […]
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The Committee to Nuke Elysium 