Category: Books
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Shahryar’s Free Comic Book Day picks
This year, Free Comic Book Day is on Saturday, May 4th. This promotional day was created to capture a wave of interest alongside newly-released superhero movies. This year’s touchstone is the film Iron Man 3. This is an opportunity to engage new readers in the rich world of comic books. This year will offer 52 […]
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Frank Herbert is also a great teacher
The Plowboy Interview: Frank Herbert. Man, the things I learn about my favorite author Frank Herbert, writer of the Dune book series. This excerpt illustrates an experience he provided his students to inspire them to answer questions he often asks in his books. So I hit on the idea of taking them out for along […]
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Washingtonian Magazine on Gene Weingarten at Mayborn Conference 2011 “”
Washingtonian Magazine – How Do You Explain Gene Weingarten? Why risk besmirching your own reputation? My theory is that this is consistent with his tendency toward self-flagellation. He reveals his faults in his columns. He writes stories about people whose mistakes and quirks mirror his own. So it makes sense that when he gives a speech […]
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William Gibson: beyond cyberspace. via reddit.com
William Gibson: beyond cyberspace. via reddit.com.
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Review: The Year of the Flood
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood My rating: 4 of 5 stars I would describe the genre as a soft-sci-fi post-apocalyptic. Not having read Oryx & Crake yet, jumping into the chaotic Babylon, the endgame and the stories of the two protagonists was a bit confusing and glacially slow, but paid off as […]
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SF writer Alastair Reynolds gives props to Denton band Midlake
Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon: Midlake – Roscoe.
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My Best of Lists for 2010
This post composes my list of distinguished media from this year. This year, I decided to write a few things paragraphs about good albums in 2010 since it's becoming a professional priority for me. Music Rosetta — A Determinism of Morality When Isis called it quits earlier this year, the search was on for a band […]
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Creating a Font – Marain Script
YouTube – Creating a Font – Marain Script. This video details the production of a novel, fictional script and typography based on Iain M. Banks' Culture Series, a science-fiction novel series that follows different settings in the context of the Culture civilization, a techno-anarchic polity where godlike-machines provide for humanoid and robotic drone constituents. This […]
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Review: For the Win
For the Win by Cory Doctorow My rating: 4 of 5 stars The book follows in Doctorow's Young Adult literature series where net-savvy youth become politically active.Most of the kids in this book are online game workers from around the world known as "gold farmers". They develop a web workers union and seek better wages […]
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A look back at age 12
A recent comic from Tom The Dancing sarcastically theorized that popular culture was at a qualitative peak when the subject was twelve years old. I will turn this theory into a subjective survey on my experience on the year I was twelve. Below is a list of notable cultural output from year 1997. Games Diablo (PC) GoldenEye […]