If you remember the post about Places to get free ebooks, you’ll probably remember Chris’ comment about Scribd having lots of copyrighted content that was illegal to distribute.
Well, I guess the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America organization read that comment by Chris too, because they nailed Scribd with a DMCA takedown notice. Perfectly [...]
Aug
31
DMCA abuse by Science Fiction Writers of America
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Aug
11
For my one or two australian readers
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I’m pretty sure I’ve seen hits from Australia a time or two…this should be of concern to you.
And even if you aren’t downunder, watching the arrogance and stupidity of companies involved in the selling of books is highly entertaining and amusing, even when it pisses you off.
Charlie Rimmer, Commercial Manager of Angus & Robertson Whitcoulls [...]
Aug
7
Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series
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After a long hiatus from fantasy (probably a year or even more), I’ve been reading a lot lately, or at least a lot more than I had been :) And I think I’ll blame it on John Lambshead’s Lucy’s Blade, and Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files, both of which re-awoke my like for fantasy, at least [...]
Jul
31
I have read a few things in which S.M. Stirling has collaborated over time, like the Raj Whitehall series with David Drake, Jimmy The Hand (part of Raymond E. Feist’s Legends of the Riftwar series) and some others, but I had never read any of his non-collaboration works, until now.
The Island in the Sea of [...]
Jul
20
JP’s favorite fiction genre, and also mine :)
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JP, over at SFSignal posted a couple of days ago an article about his favorite type of SF, declaring himself a Space Opera fan…and here I am to agree with him :)
The post mentions a few interesting space operas, but it also skips at least one that I love (Honor Harrington). But all in all, [...]
Jun
29
Ok, I had this yesterday, but with all the damn storms in town this week, the server was offline when I tried to publish, and I forgot until now….so…there :P Also, I installed it, but haven’t tried it yet…my first (and only, so far) complaint is that it’s 32bit only…they need to put out a [...]
Jun
19
Graham Sleight on Isaac Asimov
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I found this column from Locus online that made me think. Graham Sleight decides to re-read some of the Isaac Asimov books that talked to him when he was young and then wrote about his experience in this Locus feature Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Isaac Asimov.
Graham takes some of Asimov’s books to task, dissecting them from the [...]
Jun
16
I know it’s been a while since the last book review, but…I got hooked on re-reading the Honor Harrington’s Series and then some other stuff and didn’t get to anything new until yesterday…and this book hooked me so tightly that I finished it in less than a day and started writing this review as soon [...]
Jun
2
Great chairs for book lovers
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I was clicking my stumbleupon button, and ended up here Chairs for Book Lovers | the style files. These chairs rock!
My bday is coming up again, so…if anybody wants to get me one of each, I’d be happy to accept them :)
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May
18
Cory Doctorow talking about FanFic
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There’s a lot of authors out there who hate fanfic…they see it as either theft or the road to legal liability (Raymond Feist once said in a mailing list that he didn’t want to be sued by somebody because he writes something that ends up being similar to some fanfic out there).
On the other side [...]
