Y'know, I thought that once I graduated from college, I'd be done with all-nighters.

Completely unrelated, I've been caught in another " I didn't know he was still alive" moment after reading the death notice: Sam Greenlee, author of "The Spook Who Sat by the Door" and co-author of the script of the movie of the same name, died on the 19th.

I want this, but I don't want to buy a Kindle edition

The Dawkins character is a hoot: foul-mouthed, pompous, so certain of his beliefs that he will dissect a puppy in front of primary schoolchildren if it will disabuse them of the creation "myth" invented by the "dark forces of religion".

(From the review of When the Professor Got Stuck in ( Read more... )

This doesn't quite fit into that category though ( Read more... )

“Elementarno, my dear Watson”

Recently the first three episodes of last year’s Russian Sherlock Holmes, set in Victorian London, have become available in English-”Baker Street 221B,” “Rock, Paper, Scissors,” and “Clowns“-with the rest of the thirteen to be translated soon.

But that's not all!
Compare this version to the earlier Soviet one ( Read more... )

Sapphobowl?

Two new poems by Sappho discovered on an ancient scrap of papyrus

ellen-kushner is helping to raise money to move Terri Windling's books and papers. To this end, she is having an auction at her post here (which also has more details about the move). Basically there are four boxes of books to bid on, categorized as Biographies, Native American authors, Poetry, and Short Stories. There are pictures of the books ( Read more... )

Leslie S. Klinger, editor of The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, and Laurie R. King, author of the Mary Russell mysteries, sued over the Doyle literary estate's attempts to get them to pay literary fees ( Read more... )

Legacy, by James H. Schmitz, is now on Project Gutenberg.

I liked Schmitz's writing, even the psionic stuff. I still feel funny about an author's works going into the public domain when there are surviving heirs.

The New York Times printed a quarter-page review of Howard Waldrop's Horse of a Different Color and Catherynne M. Valente's The Bread We Eat in Dreams in last Friday's Weekend Arts section (December 13th). Short of getting reviewed in Sunday's NYT Book Review, that's as good as it gets. Both get positive mentions ( Read more... )

Or maybe even Lives of the Necromancers

The Shelley-Godwin Archive will provide the digitized manuscripts of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, bringing together online for the first time ever the widely dispersed handwritten legacy of this uniquely gifted family of writers.They have (or ( Read more... )