Thursday, August 01, 2024

At the Mercy of Internet Services

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Here's a very scary LOCUS column by Cory Doctorow about Google users arbitrarily losing their e-mail accounts and access to all their fi...
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Saturday, July 27, 2024

A Kind of Magic

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  Magic, in fiction, has rules.   Here's one highly recommended discussion of rules. https://ianmchugh.wordpress.com/on-writing/on-the-d...
Friday, July 26, 2024

Karen S. Wiesner Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

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Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Home Before Dark by Riley Sager by Karen S. Wiesner What would it be...
Thursday, July 25, 2024

Plant Intelligence

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A new nonfiction book, THE LIGHT EATERS, by Zoe Schlanger, delves deeply into the potential of plant intelligence. According to the blurb, s...
Friday, July 19, 2024

How Not to Write a Series or {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry, Part 3 by Karen S. Wiesner

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  How Not to Write a Series or {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry, Part 3 by Karen S. Wies...
Thursday, July 18, 2024

Octopuses Rewire Brains

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Sounds like a 1950s SF horror movie, doesn't it? Don't worry, they rewire their brains -- not ours -- in response to temperature flu...
Friday, July 12, 2024

How Not to Write a Series or {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry, Part 2 by Karen S. Wiesner

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  How Not to Write a Series or {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry, Part 2 by Karen S. Wies...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

Stories as a Survival Strategy

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A project at John Hopkins University explores how stories enhance learning and memory: How the Brain Processes Stories They've even ...
Sunday, July 07, 2024

Crossing the (Edge) Line

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Apparently, crossing the edge line pavement marking is discouraged, but it is not illegal. That unbroken white line on the right side of the...
Friday, July 05, 2024

How Not to Write a Series or {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry, Part 1 by Karen S. Wiesner

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  How Not to Write a Series or {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: The Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry, Part 1 by Karen S. Wies...
Thursday, July 04, 2024

Copyright and Fair Use

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Here's a new article by Cory Doctorow about copyright takedowns and the intricacies of the "fair use" doctrine: Copyright Ta...
Friday, June 28, 2024

Of Proper Short Story Collection Assemblage or {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Rogues Anthology Edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Of Proper Short Story Collection Assemblage or {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: Rogues Anthology Edited by George R. R....