Tara ,'Empty Places'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
What was that about steampunk being the next big thing?
The next Quirk Classic will be Android Karenina.
It's Android Karenina, which will transpose the tale of Anna Karenina to a steampunk-inspired alternate 19th-century world of cyborgs, robot butlers, and space travel. S&S&S scribe Ben H. Winters will be helping to mechanize the original text, and the new quirkified version (the cover, at left, has yet to be designed) is set for release in bookstores this June.
I also wish people would stop writing the ... extrapolations? ... of Jane Austen. And, in a continuation of the crossover theme, there's now a book out about Jane Austen as a vampire.
there's now a book out about Jane Austen as a vampire
A shame she wasn't. We might have more of her books.
Imagine being a vampire author. You'd either have to change your name and be accused of being derivative of yourself or you'd have to pretend to be a series of descendants who keep discovering "lost" manuscripts. If the latter, you'd have to keep searching for period paper and ink while longing to write the whole thing on your netbook.
Ok, there needs to be a book about this.
Well, that's one of the premises of Tanya Huff's "Blood" series: the character Henry is a 500-yo vampire romance author. I don't recall what he did until modern times, though.
cool idea...I might read some, although I don't think I've ever read a series through to the end(pretty close on the Graftons, I suppose.)
There's only five books in the series (plus a short story collection), so it's not such a huge time investment. Plus, they're good! You should read them in order, though.
6,000 word article about Neil Gaiman in this week’s New Yorker: [link]
They're on to us!
(Internet critics deride Gaiman’s fans as “Twee ‘Bisexual’ Goth Girls with BPD”—borderline personality disorder—“who are drama majors and who are destined to become cat ladies.”)