Rendezvous With Osiris
Arthur C. Clarke, “hard” science fiction writer and author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, passed away yesterday at the age of 90. Though I admired what he was able to do: bring a sense of real science to the genre (despite detours into weird and quasi-mystical elements like the monolith in 2001), I was [...]
I Don’t Know, I’ve Never Kindled
Faithful reader Janet asks, in the comments to yesterday’s post: Hey Flassherooni, to continue an earlier conversation, would you consider devoting a NaBloPoMo entry to your thoughts on Kindle?
Good question, Librarian, and thanks for the topic. (Note: See my recent thoughts on eBooks here and here.) On first perusal, it looks pretty darn [...]
eBooks ReDooks
Janet sent me some links to a couple of articles and blog postings about some new developments in the eBooks realm. This Teleread blog entry pretty much sums things up and has links to the other stories and posts. The gist of things is that Amazon is planning on launching it’s own eBook [...]
Books Vs eBooks
I’m reading Olympos again. It’s the sequel to Illium, a science fiction story about the Trojan War getting hijacked, among other things. If this post is correct, I started reading this book almost two years ago. I know I’ve started over at least once. And I’m not sure I’ve read any novels [...]
The Victim Of A Series Of Accidents
Kurt Vonnegut, one of our greatest American writers, died this week at the age of 84. I haven’t read a lot of Vonnegut, but what I have read, I’ve enjoyed. Like many authors I admire, I’ve always wanted to have the time to go through and read everything he wrote. Though the [...]
Book Publishers Suck
Seriously, book publishers suck. What’s the point of hardback books? Only to gouge the consumer, as far as I can tell. Seems like an outmoded publishing model that needs to be retired.
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