Margaret Atwood knows her goal tending.

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You take the American League championship with a grand slam home run in the final game? I've read a pre-teen baseball novel that ended that way, but in real life ( Read more... )

... Freeman's been trying to get a film version made with David Fincher directing. When I brought it up, he was more than happy to talk about how hard it's been to get the film going, and just why it is he feels like it's important and worth the effort.It's a very short clip -- it's possible the ad for "Oblivion" is longer -- but still interesting ( Read more... )

This is my "missed opportunity" face of regret

I got a phone call a few minutes ago.

"So, you're a Henry Kuttner fan, right?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"There's a Kickstarter campaign to get a book of Hogben stories published ( Read more... )

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I found that Samuel R. Delany has two (as of this writing) books on Project Gutenberg; The Jewels of Aptor, and Captives of the Flame, his first and second books. Both were uploaded this year.

(After a bit of reading, I realized that Captives of the Flame is the first Delany book I'd ever read, as part of a three-volumes-in-one book The Fall of ( Read more... )

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There is an International Guild of Knot Tyers.

Found out due to links to their forum, where a post on NASA's knots in the Mars Rover Curiosity may be found.

Lest anyone think I'm mocking, I'll just admit right now that I own a copy of The 85 Ways to Tie a Tie, by Thomas Fink and Yong Mao.

I try to limit how many times I write m**e, as I despise the word

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The rules: Grab the closest book**, turn to page 52, post the 5th sentence on that page. Don't mention the book's title in your post, but please do include a copy of the meme's rules ( Read more... )

I was looking up Ward Just, and was interested to see that he had an entry in Fantastic Fiction.

I wasn't checking for genre stories, but now I'm curious: does anyone know which of his stories or books qualified for SF status? ISFDB doesn't seem to know about him.

Just to be completish: Bookslut interview with Ward Just.