Author: Alex Irvine
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Txtmsgsp33k and 50s Poetry
See, what I’m wondering is how come people are reinventing the language for the channels of SMS and Twitter when all you need to do is look at the correspondence between, say, Olson and Creeley to note that a perfect shorthand was already there? I will always prefer ‘yr’ to ‘ur.’ Just saying.
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This and That, with Extra Ultraman
These are some interesting things I saw today between teaching and working on final revisions on the novelization of Iron Man 2. In the LA Times’ Hero Complex blog, Tim Powers talks about the optioning of On Stranger Tides for use in the next Pirates of the Caribbean movie. A biologist has found a way…
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New Archive for Old Sci Fiction
I saw someone tweeting about this and now cannot remember who, but the upshot is that Sci Fiction, the most excellent online original (and classic reprint) fiction venue edited by the most excellent Ellen Datlow from 2000-2005, is now archived here. This means that you can again find all kinds of outstanding short fiction that…
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Tough Choice
The National Book Foundation wants you to vote on the best work of National Book Award-winning fiction. Quite a slate, with the following authors having made the final ballot: Only two of the finalists are novels, interestingly, so you’re either voting for a career or a single work depending on which author you choose. This…
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At Last, Cryptozoology Enthusiasts Have a Place to Go
Noted cryptozoologist Loren Coleman happens to live in Portland, Maine, and with the help of various partners and volunteers it appears that he is opening the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland on November 1. The logo: The space is on Congress Street right near Coast City Comics, the Fun Box Monster Emporium, and Strange Maine.…
Crooked House Fictions 