In the light of this new Canadian regulation:

Under Sec 5.2(1)(c) of the ID screening regs of Aeronautics Act ( Read more... )

Porn -- but only for those who love book-shelves... (Wow--there are some amazing photographs here!)

I had not realised -- or I had forgotten, which is common enough these days -- that Alexandre Dumas had a Haitian slave as his grandmother. Thank you, Wikipedia! Which comments as follows ( Read more... )

So, I am about to be deleted (or, maybe, writing those seven words have prevented that future from happening). LiveJournal people tell me I don't use the site enough (commenting on Friends' LJ accounts clearly doesn't count) and so I shall (have been) removed in two weeks' time ( Read more... )

I am taking notes on a British edition of Bujold's Brothers in arms, and I suspect that it is the same pagination as the US first edition (Baen paperback). Could someone with the American paperback confirm this, by telling me, for instance, the first words at the top of page 202?

Thanks!

This was the opening to David Mitchell's column at www.guardian.co.uk this morning:"From each according to his ability to each according to his need," quips the man in the Number 10 press office to the keen young recruit. "You're far too clever to waste on checking George Osborne's adding up or drafting the next clarification of William Hague's ( Read more... )

Sam Jordison has taken it into his head to blog about Asimov's The Gods Themselves in The Guardian (he liked it, mostly). Next up: Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama.

I put in a chunk of my last book (Europe's Barbarians), and...

I write like H. P. Lovecraft. Proof: http://iwl.me/s/147eabd8

Oh dear.

I must stop describing Attila as eldritch.

Iain Banks (without the M) is publishing his new novel soon, and it comes with a special bar-code. Input the bar-code into your iPhone and you will download an app which, as Iain explains, will be like the extras on a DVD: potted biographies of the characters, an author commentary, and so on ( Read more... )

fjm and I are trying to finish off editing a piece. Can anyone give a VERY quick rundown of the contents of one or both of these two pieces: Butler's essay "The Monophobic Response" in Sheree Thomas, ed. Dark Matter (page refs?) and Butler's essay "Positive Obsession" in her own collection Bloodchild (page refs? edition ( Read more... )