Free books! Part 2 of 8: Carr to Delany
Here's the second batch of mass-market paperbacks that I'm giving away: Terry Carr through Samuel R. Delany. (For more info,...
Archive for Books
Free books! Part 1 of 8: Abe to Capek
Over the past few months, I've been gathering together books that I want to give away (with a great deal...
Baen and Stirling on women in combat
In 1988, S. M. Stirling sold a novel to Baen Books that was set in an alternate history in which...
Books sorted
Project completed! A few months ago, when I did a culling pass on my books, I sorted about a hundred...
Life updates
And yet again, two weeks have gone by without a post from me here. What've I been up to? Day...
Very Far Away from Anywhere Else
My first encounter with Ursula K. Le Guin's short YA novel Very Far Away from Anywhere Else was in college. My...
Tech is bad, nature is good
For a long time, we've been reading stories and books about how things mediated through technology are bad and being...
Who would’ve been on the Best Editor Hugo ballots?
Jim Hines posted yesterday about the Best Editor categories of the Hugo ballot. A friend asked who might've been on...
That syncing feeling
The problem with doing one little minor computer task late at night (like, say, "sync my new books to my...
Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
I just picked up the printed book of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, and so far it's regularly...
First-person plural, indeterminate
I've now encountered this interesting and unusual PoV in multiple works of fiction: The narration is in first-person plural. It...
The Changeling
Among my favorite books as a kid were a few by Zilpha Keatley Snyder: Black and Blue Magic; The Egypt...