I've never considered doing a review of a book I decided not to finish but then I saw this post by AndrewWheeler and realized it can work. One of my co-workers who's read a lot of vampire books read Dracula: The Un-dead and recommended it to me with the proviso that the ending was a little weak but the book itself was interesting. So I started it. I loved the first quarter of the novel....
Before the Science Fiction Book Club fell victim to a “re-organization” by their new owners a few years ago, assistant editor AndrewWheeler was publishing a series of original collections of novellas that contained some of the best stuff being published at the time. They included four volumes of Jonathan Strahan’s Best Short Novels as well as such original novella collections...
... of Spring Heeled Jack , a steampunk tale. Articles Me and My Big Mouth on A Wicked Idea . (via AndrewWheeler ) Publisher's Weekly on What Do Teens Want? (via Greg van Eekhout ) Gail Z. Martin on The Day After Tomorrow . Nadia Bulkin on In defense of english class, a.k.a. but what is the point? Adrienne Martini on Where are the WOACAs? io9 on Lovecraft 101: Get To Know The Master...
... Disciple on vol. 2 of Nightschool (Tiamat’s Manga Reviews) Ken Haley on Red Snow (Manga Recon) AndrewWheeler on Red Snow (ComicMix) Snow Wildsmith on Rica ‘tte Kanji!? (Fujoshi Librarian) Michelle Smith on vols. 5-7 of Vampire Knight (Soliloquy in Blue) Sesho on the December 2008 issue of Yen Plus (Korean and global titles) (Sesho’s Anime and Manga Reviews) Joy Kim on vol. 6 of Yotsuba&!...
... on The Discovery Process: Improving Your Abilities . Me and My Big Mouth on A Wicked Idea . (via AndrewWheeler ) Publisher's Weekly on What Do Teens Want? (via Greg van Eekhout ) Gail Z. Martin on The Day After Tomorrow . Nadia Bulkin on In defense of english class, a.k.a. but what is the point? Adrienne Martini on Where are the WOACAs? io9 on Lovecraft 101: Get To Know The Master...
... that the Diamond Retailer Summit in Baltimore drew over 600 participating retailers. Not comics: AndrewWheeler looks at a war over book prices recently kicked off by Wal-Mart’s online division. Questionable Content creator Jeph Jacques offers his State of the Webcomics Union address. (Link via Larry Cruz , who offers a rebuttal.) ——— ¡Journalista! continues after this commercial...
FTC or no FTC, it's probably a good idea to post 'books received' anyway. I definitely appreciate that AndrewWheeler and SFSignal do it, and given that I'm not writing as much as I'd like, this seems like an appropriate way to send the authors/publishers some love. So here's the list for this week: We've got two Glen Cook books here. Curtis and I both enjoy his work quite a bit; I particularly...
A few weeks ago, we wrote about why it didn't make sense that ebooks were often so expensive given that the marginal cost of an ebook is much, much, much lower than a physical book. ChurchHatesTucker points us to a recent argument against that claim by AndrewWheeler: Creating an individual ebook format -- one of the current suite of them -- costs roughly as much as creating a print-on-paper...
A few weeks ago, we wrote about why it didn't make sense that ebooks were often so expensive given that the marginal cost of an ebook is much, much, much lower than a physical book. ChurchHatesTucker points us to a recent argument against that claim by AndrewWheeler: Creating an individual ebook format -- one of the current suite of them -- costs roughly as much as creating a print-on-paper...
A few weeks ago, we wrote about why it didn't make sense that ebooks were often so expensive given that the marginal cost of an ebook is much, much, much lower than a physical book. ChurchHatesTucker points us to a recent argument against that claim by AndrewWheeler: Creating an individual ebook format -- one of the current suite of them -- costs roughly as much as creating a print-on-paper...
... Jeff and Ann VanderMeer announce the finalists for The First Annual Last Drink Bird Head Award . AndrewWheeler celebrates his blog's 4th Anniversary . Mike Brotherton is looking for Science Fiction Words in the Mainstream . For the writers: Vonda N. McIntyre's Pitfalls of Writing SF & Fantasy . Gary Westfahl reviews Pandorum : "In order to appreciate Pandorum , then, one...
OK, you can start sighing now... or you can go read AndrewWheeler's take on it , the best thing I've read on the whole Roman Polanski thing, bar none. Not only does it make superb points, it's incredibly well written, and I commend it to everyone. Go. Read.
... Ass. Lynne Patrick on How Hard Can It Be? Rachelle Gardner on It's All About Collaboration . AndrewWheeler on Stop Saying That! John Scalzi On Being the Stargate Universe Creative Consultant: Answers! Pimp My Novel on In the Year 2029 . News Warning regarding a plagiarist . HBO's fantasy 'Game of Thrones' URGENTLY needs male horseriders! And from Sarah Langan: Audrey's Door by Sarah...
... patterns of thought and culture more visible, so that they can be challenged. And (unrelatedly) AndrewWheeler quotes WH Auden: “One cannot review a bad book without showing off.” Tagged: brian attebery, criticism, Quotes, Reviewing, wh auden
... so in some cases, since there are plenty of ebook editions that have never sold a single copy.” - AndrewWheeler Above the Fold [Top Story] Life in interesting times In Morocco, police have closed the Akhbar al-Youm daily newspaper and detained (among other staffers) cartoonist Khaled Kadar for more than a day, reports the Committee to Protect Journalists . Disney wins Pooh. Diamond...
