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Gentlemen, Start Your Novels
(Ladies, too.)Today marks the start of National Novel Writing Month. National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has…
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Snow Crash Comes to the Metaverse
Penguin Books has launched an in-game publishing venture in the virtual world Second Life, leading with Neal Stephenson’s wonderful Snow Crash. Which is nice, since the book’s Metaverse was the inspiration for the Second Life game. Penguin worked with the London-based virtual world design agency Rivers Run Red to create an in-world version of the…
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Really Short Stories
Wired Magazine challenged authors to write SF stories in just six words. Some of these are surprisingly evocative. Internet “wakes up?” Ridicu – no carrier. – Charles Stross It cost too much, staying human. – Bruce Sterling It’s behind you! Hurry before it – Rockne S. O’Bannon I’m your future, child. Don’t cry. – Stephen…
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Robert Anton Wilson Needs Our Help
He’s in the process of dying, and on the brink of poverty. See this article over at BoingBoing to see how you can help.Update: It looks as though fans were more than generous. Yay, SF community! Link
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Books In Spaaace
NASA scientist David McKay suggests that the Moon might be a good place for a massive storehouse of digital information, sort of a (less-flammable) Lunar Library of Alexandria. McKay says the lunar library could be stored on computers buried in the ground, placed inside craters, or located in hollow lava tubes. The benefits of lunar…
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Lensmen Sequels Now Available
Red Jacket Press is pleased to announce new editions of three fully-authorized sequels to E.E. “Doc” Smith’s LENSMEN series: The Dragon Lensman, Lensman From Rigel and Z-Lensman, written by David A. Kyle. Originally published in paperback by Bantam Books in the early 1980s and long since out of print, each book is a complete and…
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Google Books Promotes Banned Books for Banned Books Week
Google Book Search and the American Library Association have teamed up to offer searchable indices and library links to banned books, in celebration of Banned Books Week (Sept 23-30). Included in the catalog are 1984, Brave New World, Invisible Man, Cats Cradle, and many other titles.Link (via BoingBoing)
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Podcast of Doctorow’s “0wnz0red”
Part one of writer Cory Doctorow’s story about “trusted computing, geek culture, and getting root on your body” has been posted for your listening pleasure. The link below goes to his BoingBoing post on the story, along with links to the podcasts themselves.Link
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DRM-Free Science Fiction eBooks
One intrepid blogger has started a list of sites which offer truly free (as opposed to DRM-crippled) science fiction ebooks. Got more good SF ebook sites? Add them to the comment section of the post. Link (via BoingBoing)