- Did you know this was Read an E-book week? Yeah, me neither, and here it is, almost over. I carry my e-book reader with me pretty much everywhere, but right now I’m most actively reading my dead-trees version of Gene Wolfe’s The Sword of the Lictor.
- Maybe it’s a good thing I couldn’t find an e-book version of Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666. Apparently, they’ve found another section.
- I’ve long maintained that Vladimir Nabokov invented the emoticon, but now it looks like maybe Ambrose Bierce beat him to it by several decades.
- The Saturn Awards have some funny ideas about what is and isn’t science fiction. Then again, I’m perfectly happy to entertain discussions of why shows like The Closer or Breaking Bad — whose terrific first season I’m finally watching — qualify. After all, you can re-interpret pretty much anything as science fiction if you want.
- “It is entirely reasonable to expect we will find a shadow biosphere here on Earth.” Well there’s something you don’t read every day. [via]
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I’m reading the ebook version of ‘Fighting France’ right now.