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"Listen, It’s More Important Than That"
…quoth Liverpool legend Bill Shankly when it was suggested that soccer was life and death to him. I was thinking of this because of a goofy story about the Mexican national team (with the help of Radio Shack) resorting to voodoo in an effort to break their decade-long losing streak on American soil. We’ll find…
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Ooh, Space Elevators
Maybe they won’t always just be imagined. Going up…! (Too bad the accompanying illustration is a dead link.)
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Pop Flotsam, Cultural Jetsam
The guys over at Barrelhouse have a cool site and blog, not to mention a cool magazine. You should check it out. You should also look for my story “The Truth About Ninjas” in #7, which is due any second now…
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DIY?
Time’s Lev Grossman wonders if a radical transformation is really here for the publishing industry and what it might mean for the novel as a form. Interesting thoughts, particularly about self-publishing and what it means for the idea of traditional publishing as an act of cultural gatekeeping. We need gatekeepers, but who should they be,…
Crooked House Fictions 