Daily Archives: February 27, 2009
The Big Idea: Daniel Fox
Posted on February 27, 2009 21 Comments
To wrap up this Week O’ Big Ideas, here’s Daniel Fox with Dragon in Chains. They say travel broadens the mind, but for Fox it did rather more than that: It gave him an idea and an inspiration to write about the place to which he’d traveled, one that in this case has paid off […]
Nebula Award Nominees, 2009
Posted on February 27, 2009 32 Comments
It’s that time again. Here are this year’s nominees for the Nebula Awards, one of the two big awards in SF (the other, of course, being the Hugo): Novels Little Brother – Doctorow, Cory (Tor, Apr08) Powers – Le Guin, Ursula K. (Harcourt, Sep07) Cauldron – McDevitt, Jack (Ace, Nov07) Brasyl – McDonald, Ian (Pyr, […]
The Panic About Kindle’s Text to Speech: Still Silly
Posted on February 27, 2009 107 Comments
This article attempts to explain why my and some other authors’ sanguine attitude toward the new Kindle’s Text-to-Speech capability is misguided (or more, “right response, incorrect reasoning”); in essence the argument is that we’re only looking at how computerized voice reading sounds now, as opposed to how it will sound in the future, when it’ll […]
Comrades! The Cake Ration Has Been Increased to 20 Grams!
Posted on February 27, 2009 72 Comments
Presented for your oooohing and aaaahing, the cake my daughter made, and, clearly, decorated, last night. It is helpfully subtitled so that you may know your appropriate response to it. Feel free to respond thusly at your leisure. Your leisure begins NOW. Also, the first person who comments “the cake is a lie!” or some […]
Perfect Timing
Posted on February 27, 2009 30 Comments
Delightfully apropos to yesterday’s entry on authors (and the entry on pissy fans a couple days before that), Patrick Rothfuss updates all and sundry on the status of his second novel. Also, Justine Larbalestier refutes one of my assertions in yesterday’s entry, for which she will no doubt be punished by our robot overlords.
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