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Read Bullet Train by Kōtarō Isaka after watching the Netflix movie adaptation. Book and movie are pretty wild!
First round to the Big Four publishersThe Internet Archive has lost its first fight to scan and lend e-books like a library
"A federal judge has ruled against the Internet Archive in Hachette v. Internet Archive, a lawsuit brought against it by four book publishers, deciding that the website does not have the right to scan books and lend them out like a library."
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/24/23...
EDIT: The Internet Archive's response
https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/t...
Today is Tolkien Reading Day: Experience the magic of Tolkien's worldMost Kindle editions of Tolkien's books are $2.99 each
Deal ends at midnight Pacific Time
https://www.amazon.com/b?node=7788141...
If you like book cover art, here is a terrific website...The Art of Penguin Science Fiction
https://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/
Table of contents
https://www.penguinsciencefiction.org...
400 Penguin sf covers ordered chronologically by year
https://www.penguinsciencefiction.org...
Index
https://www.penguinsciencefiction.org...
Trike wrote: "Who can nominate?"Eligible members of the 2022 and 2023 Worldcons.
https://www.thehugoawards.org/2023/03...
https://en.chengduworldcon.com/hugo-a...
In 2020, Sword & Laser received 29 nominations for Best Fancast, but needed at least 40 to make the cut as a finalist.In 2021, Sword & Laser received 24 nominations for Best Fancast, but needed at least 31 to make the cut as a finalist.
Last year, 2022, Sword & Laser received 23 nominations for Best Fancast, but needed at least 32 to make the cut as a finalist.
This year, 2023 Hugo nominations are open until 11:59 pm Hawaiian time on April 30th, 2023. (No, I'm not in Hawaii, I just wish I was. The Chengdu WorldCon emails use Hawaiian time.)
In addition to the two dozen folks who nominated Sword & Laser the last couple of years, we just need another dozen book club members to make a Best Fancast nomination.
Looking for just 36 nominations!
36 noms
You know you want to.
Then we see what happens.
36
thirty six
6 X 6
2 X 2 X 3 X 3
Tom's podcast Daily Tech News Show may be banned in China, but I don't think Veronica has been banned yet. Unless moving to Canada gets her banned. Doesn't matter. Just nominate. Let's get Veronica banned in China too!
Breaking Dragon Week editorial!What Kind of Burrito Would You Feed a Dragon? John Scalzi Answers!
https://www.torforgeblog.com/2023/03/...
Trike wrote: "I will have completely forgotten about it by then. (Oh, who’m I kidding? I’ll have forgotten it 15 minutes from now. My “coming soon” retention is getting shorter and shorter.)"
Orbit Books announces more Fonda Lee! Orbit will publish a new science fiction duology from the World Fantasy Award-winning author of Jade City!"Inspired by samurai movies and Fonda’s former business career, The Last Contract of Isako is a searing space opera like no other that takes aim squarely at late-stage capitalism. Get ready to meet an aging contractor, Ithmus Isako, whose final mission thrusts her deep into a world of espionage and sword fights on an isolated colony planet."
https://www.orbitbooks.net/2023/03/01...
Finished Bad Actors by Mick Herron and that's the last currently available novel in the series. I binged the remaining Slough House novels and novellas January and February, and found them all very entertaining. I guess the waiting game for #9 has begun.
Trike wrote: "Here’s my list of the top 20 Time Travel movies.Wut?! No Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086443/
Here's today's US Kindle line on the March Madness picks.Note: Prices subject to change at any given moment.
Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes $7.99
Minimum Wage Magic (DFZ Book 1) $4.89
Momo N/A
The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty Book 1) $9.99
The Steerswoman (Steerswoman Series Book 1) $2.99
Vita Nostra: A Novel $13.99
Victory City: A Novel $13.99
The City of Brass: A Novel (The Daevabad Trilogy) $13.99
Children of Time $9.99
The Lives of Tao $6.99
Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga Book 2) $8.99
Red Rising (Red Rising Series Book 1) $5.99
The Terraformers $14.99
Notes from the Burning Age $1.99
The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind (The Frost Files Book 1) $2.99
The Spare Man $12.99
Tom wrote: "Ok! I found the setting that lets you make predictions on challonge.com. Sorry for the delay"Tom, last year there was a Predictions tab and creating an account wasn't required. At present, some kind of Voting has been turned on and seems to require an account.
I've read 2 of 16 and have 7 on my TBR. I'm so far behind.
If you catalog your books in Goodreads then here is a list of the March Madness 2023 picks.https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...
T and V selected a really interesting mix of titles.
John (Taloni) wrote: "^ Why is DRM free a good thing? I've seen this in books I've gotten from the library but never understood why."DRM free ebooks can be read on any ereader. You can reformat them without worrying about breaking encryption. You can back them up with your other files. They give the reader flexibility and don't force you into a specific ebook ecosystem like Kindle.
The downside is that DRM free ebooks are easy to share, probably depriving authors of some sales.
Trike wrote: ""
Watched The Gray Man on Netflix a couple of weeks ago. It is an over the top action thriller. Now reading The Gray Man by Mark Greaney. It is an over the top action thriller without a hint of Ana de Armas.
