Still thinking about HD. Meanwhile, 7th Son is a serialized audiobook or piece of podcast fiction. Nice bit of bending the new media to your purposes.

Hey marmy, I know you are not drunk or divorced but you are covered in cat hair so maybe i should get you Crazy Aunt Purl's Drunk, Divorced, and Covered in Cat Hair: The True-Life Misadventures of a 30-Something Who Learned to Knit After He Split ??

Regarding Betty Rosenberg, a noted librarian, she is quoted:

Rosenberg’s First Law of Reading: Never Apologize for Your Reading Tastes."

And yes, I read BFFs and have enjoyed (up to a degree) even the Robert Jordan series. (via jeff)

Kewl, It's The Official Michael Moorcock Website. He needs a redesign that is appropriately Melnibonean.

This link to A SteamPunk’s Guide to the Apocalypse made me think that there is another subgenre of post-apocalyptic fiction I wouldn't mind finding examples of -- an apocalypse that happens before our current time period, such as in Victorian times, the Renaissance, before Columbus discovers naked boobies in the carribean, etc.

I think I might wander by The Word On The Street on Sunday if I am not too sleepy after (attempting to) going to a Nuit Blanche event or two. And this link answers my "but i am a pedestrian" question.

I linked to something similar to this a while ago but these Writers' Rooms are just fun to look at. I guess it's part of my productivity obsession (more with people who are than actually being so) in that I love to see the rooms where people do their work, the books surrounding all the people who write write write. Can you be a good writer without being surrounded by good books? Can you be a good writer without reading a lot of good books?

Are you there Google? It's Judy Blume's Blog.

I just finished re-reading John Steakley's Armor, a battle-armor story in homage to Starship Troopers but little did I know that there might be an Armor 2.

This is an interesting article called The End of Science Fiction which basically speculates that some point in our future, when we have reached the era often defined in scifi, we will stop writing scifi. Well we reached 1984 and still continue to write after that. And we reached 2001 and still are going strong. Even when we do have Jetsons cars, I am sure we will be writing about a million years into the future, not just a few hundred or thousand. (via different elves)

Yes, a Total Dick-Head is a blog about Philip K Dick.

I think Marmy could make this chair her favourite chair.

I would say 5 out of the 7 days of the week, there is reading material in the bathroom. Usually it is a Dragon magazine or a book. I have either damaged books (bump, catch, tear cover) or dropped them in the tub but this will not stop me. I stop being concerned about mint condition years ago. That said, I have a habit of leaving with the comics I read in there, just in case they are not my comics.

At the time I blog this, there is a couple of paragraphs written by Austin Grossman about Soon I Will Be Invincible. It's a really cool image of a world with superheroes. (via a wonderland)

Also from Warren, is steampunk magazine.

I met an editor for Harlequin books this weekend. She was talking about a time-travel story so I imagine she is involved in one of their more fantastic imprints, but little did I know that they have a Manga imprint. Weird but appropriate.

Kewl. I am sure Pat's Fantasy Hotlist, by a guy in Montreal, will be the source of much for my "books desired" category. I like that is one sub-genre of specfic. i can take things off the list and walk down to Bakka !!

P.S. Here is the Malazan Empire forums site that I blogged pre-categories.

I am on the last few pages of Steve Erikson's The Bonehunters and before the next one comes out I will definately either have to reread them all (yeah right) or dig deeply into the Encylopaedia Malazica. This is one series that definately needs an annotated edition. p.s. this site makes my eyes shine.

if:book is a weblog or site about a think tank that is thinking (in a tank of course) about the furture of books and written word and technology. I think.

We used to buy books for the sake of buying books. Having books was an accomplishment as well as the massive shelves we had. We have been paring down of the years condensing and adding less and less. But still, it would be lovely to display all the books we have on shelves such as these.

Lured to google him by a mention of his book being, "IT Geeks meet Cthulhu," I connect with Charles Stross, a UK specfic writer who turns out to be the guy who created the Githyanki for D&D. And he has some free stories online, which I have to get onto my Treo.

Speaking of, I believe I will download this book for reading on my Treo.

Oooo, my kinda book list. (via rebecca's pocket)

Imagine this, you have a website that reviews TV shows and gets a little fame. You write a review for a crappy piece of teen drama that focuses on the empty heads of malibu beach bunnies. A couple of months later you see an episide of Law & Order: SVU and the nasty, over the top baby raper has the same name as you and happens to write for a website that reviews TV shows. You watch the credits, a little confused, and you see the name of the same telewriter who wrote that crappy Malibu show. Or better yet, how about a bad review of a Michael Crichton novel.

I used to love CD Cover design until I started listening primarily to MP3s and haven't seen many as of late. But I still read deadtree (as webbies are wont to call them) books and love love love the cover art and thus I link to a blog dedicated to book design.

While I really am drooling over the increase in popularity of eBooks (i saw an ad on TV for the Sony Reader) I don't think people who publish books have to resort to ads like this; but they sure are funny !!

It's only a matter of time before there is an ap like Shelfari for every aspect of life, where you can share you interests and be part of a community that shares that interest... in sharing. The important thing is not the chosen interest but the accessible and enjoyable aspects of the community.

Speaking of The Major, I might have to order some new books. .

Wasn't there already something like BookMooch, a "free book trade and exchange community" ?

All I can say about Tales From The Vault!: Canadian Pulp Fiction is NEAT ! (via snarkout)

Hey I read that Camp Concentration book. Have I contributed to anti-american attitudes?

Books in vending machines; how fucking cool.

Gayla harvested her garden produce and man does it look yummy !! She also has a book on creating such a gorgeous selection.

It is a book about an ape brighter than most who teaches us about our own world. He is called Ishmael.

Poppy Z Brite, known for her gothy southern novels, did what many young Goths do. She moved on.

And next is Nevil Shute's On the Beach. I need a wishlist.

I will also add Riddley Walker but I believe this is more esoteric than most "after the boom" books.

I like books about the end of the world, or more particularly, the things that happen after the End. Thus I will buy Walter Jon William's The Rift.