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Freefall
Jerry Pournelle recently recommended Freefall, and this is my favorite web comic of the moment. It may have been slow going waiting for it to come out originally, but I breezed through the first couple of years of comics already. This is definitely engineer humor, but it can also make
New Tim Powers book coming March 2012
Hide Me Among the GravesTim Power's newest novel, Hide Me Among the Graves, will be coming March 2012. This is sort of a sequel to The Stress of Her Regard
, a tale of vampryic muses in the lives of Byron, Keats, and Shelley, based on actual events in
Forsake the Sky Book Review
by Tim Powers
$3.50; 217 pages
Forsake the Sky is an updated version of The Skies Discrowned, Tim Powers first book. I am a big fan of Power's early work. I enjoy Forsake the Sky and Dinner at Deviant's Palace more than Earthquake Weather. The
Education for slackers
A couple of years ago, I posted an essay about Dorothy Sayers' Lost Tools of Learning. An aspect of her argument that I didn't pull out in that essay, but that struck me at the time, was how unstructured her program of education really was:
Towards the
Cold War Fallout
No, not that kind.
Titanic was on the television today, and I recalled that the Titanic was found by Robert Ballard when he was actually searching for the wrecks of the USS Thresher and USS Scorpion. As Project Azorian demonstrates, the US spent enormous sums of money during the Cold
NPR Running a poll on the top Sci Fi books
NPR wants to know its listeners' favorite scifi books, so there is a poll on their website created from listener nominations. Lots of good books are on the list. You could just take the list and work your way through it if you needed something to read.
All my