Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/11/dr-peter-watts-canad.html Ten Ways Space Travel Isn’t Like Television or the Movies http://www.satelliteinternet.com/news/ten-ways-space-travel-isnt-like-television-or-the-movies/ The Funniest Reasons Customers Reject Books http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/660000266/post/210048821.html “I don’t do books about elephants set during the …
A friend of mine acquired some tea that the packaging claims has been picked by monkeys. The company’s web site says: No folks we’re not pulling you leg! This rare chinese tea is carefully picked by specially trained monkeys …
The Confessions of a Semi-successful Author http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2004/03/22/midlist/print.html# George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language” http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm A Good Author is Hard to Find http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/a-good-author-is-hard-to-find/Content?oid=2820559 Why Science Fiction Is Dying & Fantasy Fiction Is The Future. http://blog.markcnewton.com/2009/12/03/why-sf-is-dying-fantasy-fiction-is-the-future/ 2009 Aurealis Award Shortlist http://www.aurealisawards.com/finalists_winners.htm …