B&N has Warriors the collection that includes GRRM's "Mystery Knight" on sale for $5.38 for the hardcover.

"Mystery Knight" is the 3rd Dunk & Egg story and the Dunk and Egg stories are very enjoyable.

Damn, I just bought that for much, much more! Well, not really "just", but still.

Yeah, I bought a kindle edition for probably more than that.

In praise of Joanne Rowling’s Hermione Granger series:

And what a show it is. In Hermione, Joanne Rowling undermines all of the cliches that we have come to expect in our mythic heroes. It's easy to imagine Hermione's origin story as some warmed-over Star Wars claptrap, with tragically missing parents and unsatisfying parental substitutes and a realization that she belongs to a hidden order, with wondrous (and unsettlingly genetic) gifts. But, no: Hermione’s normal parents are her normal parents. She just so happens to be gifted. Being special, Rowling tells us, isn't about where you come from; it's about what you can do, if you put your mind to it. And what Hermione can do, when she puts her mind to it, is magic.

Loads of out of print science fiction books are going to be released as ebooks. (Pardon me if this has been posted before.) Article includes a link to a list of the books being rereleased.

Woo! Thanks for that link, sumi!

Upon re-read, and having read the sequel, Deadline, Feed by Mira Grant def stands up and rocks the house. I think it's my favorite new series. I like the October Daye series she write under her own name (Seanan McGuire) but the Newsflesh series really plays successfully with a tons of current ideas.

I really, really love it. Total recommend.

She gave a copy to James Gunn at Comic-Con. Let's hope he wants to turn it into a wildly successful movie franchise!

I gave Rosemary and Rue to Amy Acker last year at WonderCon. Maybe it will fall into Joss's hands.

I really like Deadline and Feed, but I'm having a hard time convincing some friends to try them. It's hard to explain that they're mostly political thrillers, only with zombies. Like others, I'm still irritated about the clones, particularly a clone with the memories of a dead person. That's partly a function of setting something in the near future. I can't imagine the science getting to that point in less than 30 years, particularly 30 years filled with death and destruction. It seems to me that the mass slaughter of researchers and the amount of resources it took to set up all the anti-zombie measures would tend to slow down scientific research.

I buy it. I think there's...those things you mentioned walking around today in labs, albeit maybe not with...the part you mentioned, Ginger.

Too hot to whitefont, that's me.

She gave a copy to James Gunn at Comic-Con. Let's hope he wants to turn it into a wildly successful movie franchise! That would be really awesome; I'm trying to cast it now in my mind.

Dan reads so slow (comparatively)-- he's on the latest Butcher now, and I'm all "Stop falling asleep reading! You need to read this next!"

Yes, but this is a full-grown thing.