I've got a copy of Diamond Age you can have, Emily. Free!
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'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
DavidS - Jun 23, 2007 7:22:08 am PDT #3024 of 28195
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Anne W. - Jun 23, 2007 9:19:16 am PDT #3025 of 28195
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
The Girl Genius comics [link] also give good steampunk
Oh, yes. I just started reading that several weeks ago and I am dearly in love with that series.
Teppy, I'm delighted to hear that you're enjoying "The Anubis Gates." My favorite Tim Powers novel, however, is "Last Call."
If you don't like what I like, you're stupid; if you like what I don't like you're an asshole.
For a long time, I (not intentionally) held to a twisted version of this, something more along the lines of "If you don't like what I like, I'm a nerd; if you like what I don't like, I'm unsophisticated."
Emily - Jun 23, 2007 2:10:48 pm PDT #3026 of 28195
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Free!
That's my favorite!
JoeCrow - Jun 24, 2007 7:20:22 am PDT #3027 of 28195
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
Far as I can tell, the most definitive piece of "steampunk" lit out there is The Difference Engine, by Gibson and Sterling. Essentially an alt-history novel about what mighta happened if Charles Babbage had created a computer revolution a couple hundred years early. G&S may have deliberately started the literary movement; it's the sort of thing that both of them would enjoy doing, for different reasons.
But for comics, Girl Genius is probably as iconic as The Difference Engine.
As for the
If you don't like what I like, you're stupid;
if you like what I don't like you're an asshole.dealie, have y'all seen this?
Polter-Cow - Jun 24, 2007 7:34:43 am PDT #3028 of 28195
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh, that is brilliant and awesome.
Gris - Jun 24, 2007 5:31:20 pm PDT #3029 of 28195
Hey. New board.
Today, I scanned/entered all of my books into Delicious Library. They're uploading into my librarything account as we speak.
I am disappointed that i only have 220 books in my apartment. It does not feel like nearly a large enough number, and yet I don't have nearly enough shelf space for the hundreds more I want to have.
Toddson - Jun 25, 2007 10:39:37 am PDT #3030 of 28195
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
This seemed literary-appropriate - it's official! librarians are hot!
Toddson - Jun 25, 2007 12:01:45 pm PDT #3031 of 28195
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Did I kill the thread? or the hot librarians made everyone quietly shelve themselves in their bunks?
Connie Neil - Jun 25, 2007 12:33:53 pm PDT #3032 of 28195
brillig
No reference to Giles? Mr. Uber-Librarian himself? Sadly lacking.
DavidS - Jun 25, 2007 1:09:00 pm PDT #3033 of 28195
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I saw some books at lunch that piqued my curiosity. Anybody read them and got a review?
The new Chabon book The Yiddish Policeman's Union.
Tracey Chevalier's new novel about Wm. Blake. Burning Bright.
Kiki Strike