Author: Alex Irvine
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Video: SF/Fantasy Writers Roundtable at NYCC ’09
Suvudu‘s Shawn Speakman had the unenviable task of herding 10 (!) writers through a panel at NYCC ’09, called “Author Round Table: Sci-fi/Supernatural/Fantasy Authors Gather To Talk Influences.” They were: John Birmingham, Peter V. Brett, S.C. Butler, Kim Harrison, Jackie Kessler, Vicki Pettersson, Tamora Pierce, Jeff Somers, Carrie Vaughn, and me. We talked about literary…
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"Starcraft Is a Reflection of Life"
Of course you knew that. But if you ever wanted to get the game theory (and all kinds of other theories about human conduct) behind this intuitively obvious idea, this video of a lecture given by Alan Feng at Berkeley is everything you could have ever hoped for. http://blip.tv/play/gtQk6+MvkPxE (from Academic Earth…but I saw it…
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‘Under the Literary Influence’
Funny piece by Brian McDonald in the NYT’s Proof blog about being addicted to writers who drink.
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Liquid Water Spotted on Mars?
Maybe so, according to this New Scientist article. Be still my spacenerd heart.
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Reading by Gaslight
I don’t know why I never ran across this site before, but it’s a treasure trove. A huge number of pre-1919 (Old Weird?) e-texts, fiction and nonfiction, with an emphasis on the unusual and fantastic. I just spent an hour getting reacquainted with Lafcadio Hearn.
Crooked House Fictions 