Meme

The Toast gives a list of 79 books which, allegedly, all white men own.
Bold those you own.
Italicize those you have read.
Underline those you've never heard of would have to be paid to read.
Bonus points if you're not a white male.
1. Shogun, James Clavell
2. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
3. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
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Which TV shows did you start watching in 2014?
Helix, Z-Nation, True Detective, Fargo, Penny Dreadful, Gotham, The Librarians, The Strain,  American Horror Story - Coven and Freakshow,

Which TV shows did you let go of in 2014?
Almost Human because it was cancelled and deserved another season I think.
The Strain it was just too dumb.

Which TV shows ( Read more... )

The overnights meme:
List the places where you spent a night away from home this year, marking places where you spent two or more non-consecutive nights with an asterisk ( Read more... )

There currently is no Hugo Award for young Adult science fiction.

As a result, this year's North American Science Fiction Convention Detcon1http://detcon1.org/, has created the Detcon1 Award for YA and Middle Grade Speculative Fiction.

And the nominees are…
Young Adult
Allegiant by Veronica Roth (Katherine Tegen Books)
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December 6th, 10:13
Geneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student.
Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials ( Read more... )

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Does this plot of a short story sound familiar to anyone?
Its from before the early 1960's
The atmosphere of the Earth has been poisoned people are told so everyone lives in little rooms and talks back and forth via computer terminals and has their food delievered automatically.
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Best Novel (1,113 ballots)
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit)
Blackout by Mira Grant (Orbit)
Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold (Baen)
Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John Scalzi (Tor)
Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed (DAW)

Best Novella (587 ballots)
After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress ( ( Read more... )

So what have people seen or read that I should consider nominating?

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