Aw.
I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's... depressing.
Tara ,'Get It Done'
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."
Polter-Cow - Mar 27, 2008 4:22:42 pm PDT #5413 of 28344
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Tom Scola - Mar 31, 2008 2:50:55 pm PDT #5414 of 28344
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
An e-mail containing the most astounding news just surfaced in my inbox, still dripping wet from the great oceanic Interweb. Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, etc., you know who he is, has a new novel out this September. It's called Anathem. Below, lovingly hand-transcribed, is the catalog copy:
Since childhood, Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3,400-year-old monastery, a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians—sealed off from the illiterate, irrational, unpredictable "saecular" world that is plagued by recurring cycles of booms and busts, world wars and climate change. Until the day that a higher power, driven by fear, decides that only these cloistered scholars have the abilities to avert an impending catastrophe. And, one by one, Raz and his cohorts are summoned forth without warning into the Unknown.
beth b - Mar 31, 2008 2:53:12 pm PDT #5415 of 28344
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
DH is going to be so happy
Jessica - Mar 31, 2008 2:53:18 pm PDT #5416 of 28344
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ooh! I hope I'll be able to lift this one with one hand!
Volans - Mar 31, 2008 3:27:02 pm PDT #5417 of 28344
move out and draw fire
Cool! And what Jessica said.
Hayden - Mar 31, 2008 4:43:22 pm PDT #5418 of 28344
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
One can dream.
(but I liked The Baroque Cycle quite a lot.)
Miracleman - Apr 01, 2008 4:41:27 am PDT #5419 of 28344
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Huh. Coincidentally, I'm re-reading Cryptonomicon for the, like, seventy billionth time.
Then I'm moving on to Quicksilver, during which reading I will likely purchase the rest of the Baroque Cycle 'cause I don't have it and haven't read it. Which makes me unhappy.
So. Rock on, Neal!
hippocampus - Apr 01, 2008 5:38:02 am PDT #5420 of 28344
not your mom's socks.
Sweet!
I don't mind the Baroque Cycle's heft. Helps stabilize the rest of my books.
DavidS - Apr 01, 2008 6:29:45 am PDT #5421 of 28344
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I was looking through my friend Erik's website (Techgnosis) and found an interview he did in 1994 with Neil Gaiman and Rachel Pollack (creator of the Sacred Woman Tarot and author of Seventy Eight Degrees of Wisdom). It's pretty interesting if you like Neil Gaiman and tarot or esoteric knoweldge.
Beverly - Apr 01, 2008 8:52:30 am PDT #5422 of 28344
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Nice article, David, thanks for the link.