China Mi�ville readers will want to head over to Crooked Timber for the discussion.
PZ Meyers reports that:
It�s much more than the usual Q&A�the critics take some time to expand on ideas and express themselves at length, while Mi�ville also replies in a single lengthy discussion. It just seems to be an appropriate use of the medium.
Be prepared with your thinking caps.
Tegan is a charter member of the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame which is opening this week. She attended the “Gala premier opening” and has written a preview for us. A couple of snippets:
Ok, overall first impressions: Crowded, but not too crowded. Literally every time you turned around, there was something new to look at. I was suffering from “oooooh! Shiny thing!” syndrome, big-time.
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Disappointments. Not many… There was as strong a focus on books and magazines as on TV and movies, but comic books were underrepresented.
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And the Experience Music Project building is still the ugliest building in Seattle, even if what’s inside it is pretty cool.
A lot of folks consider this building ugly and it certainly does wrench at one’s sense of what is right when you look at it. As time goes by, though, I’ve found it to be much more interesting then just another box and I suspect that much of the inside ambience is due to the external shell creating internal spaces with interesting curved shapes.
Hey, sorry to digress. Go read the rest of Tegan’s review.
Jim Henley points out that he is a guy and reviews the graphic novel The Filth.
It has been quite a few years since I have been a heavy comic fan but Jim’s review makes me want to read this one. I guess that verifies that I’m a guy as well…
And, Jim has an in somewhere. Amazon says this book isn’t released yet.
Very much faster then I have been. Eugene Volokh has already finished Stephenson’s The Confusion.
I’m still crawling through Quicksilver which I have been enjoying for much longer then I anticipated as noted here. In fact I’ve been enjoying Quicksilver enough that I already have The Confusion waiting on the bookshelf (I wanted needed to have a 1st edition).
I’d feel bad if my only reading over the past year had been several hundred pages of Quicksilver but I’ve been able to sneak in other reading at the rate of about 1 book for every 9 pages of Quicksilver and, of course, uncounted blog postings.
Update: Via Catallarchy a pointer to this Salon interview with Neal Stephenson (I had to visit a one screen add to get to the premium content).
If you are looking for a book for your Marine something from this list might just fill the bill.
Via the evangelical outpost.