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Bryan’s 2025 Year in Books
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Bryan speaking on digital storytelling in Burlington
I'll be speaking on a panel about digital storytelling next month. It's Saturday, 9/24, at the Burlington Book Festival. Stop by!
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Storytelling-the ability to describe a world beyond the present moment-may be the defining feature and crowning achievement of our species. Nearly everyone is a storyteller, but those who tell stories with great
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I read this with my local sf book club. I dimly remember people being excited about the Lord Darcy series back in the 1980s, but never read them then, although did get the basic idea. The basic idea is that these are mystery stories, wherein a clever ...more |
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Murder and Magic (Lord Darcy, #1):
"A collection of four short stories starring Lord Darcy - Chief Forensic Investigator for the Duke of Normandy - set in an alternate England. Sort of has an air of Victorian kind of stories, though it's set in the 1960s.
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"I enjoyed the world in this alternate history line, much along the lines of Pavane but with a much more respectful attitude toward the Church. However, I never felt that I cared about the mysteries themselves or the people in the stories. That left m"
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| American Elsewhere is a curious novel. It's a blend of fantasy, horror, science fiction, and Americana, with a touch of mystery, an epic flair, and ambitions of Lovecraftian/cosmic horror. It concerns a New Mexican town with the delightful name of Wi ...more | |
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What We Can Know
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"Please, when I die, just place a copy of this book on my grave. That’s all I ask—thank you.
The story is a brilliant meditation on how we treat history—how we glorify certain eras and idolize their people, obsessing over times we never lived through, " Read more of this review » |
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“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
“Then he explained in a whisper that the plan was composed entirely of awesome. It was made and designed by the House of Awesome, from materials found in the deep awesome mines of Awesometania and it would be recorded in the Annals of Awesome - and nowhere else, because any other book would catch fire and explode from the awesome - and by its awesomeness it would be known from now until the crack of doom.”
― Tigerman
― Tigerman
“Kershaw had long ago realised, apparently, that dealing with Brits was tricky. You had to listen to what a Brit was saying -- which was invariably that he thought XYZ was a terrific idea and he hoped it went very well for you -- while at the same time paying heed to the greasy, nauseous suspicion you had that, although every word and phrase indicated approval, somehow the sum of the whole was that you'd have to be a mental pygmy to come up with this plan and a complete fucking idiot to pursue it.”
― Tigerman
― Tigerman
“An ugly calm lay over the streets like the anticipation of a beating.”
― Tigerman
― Tigerman
“The boy reported - after the Sergeant had slept for a few hours, which was not nearly enough - that YouTube had actually gone down for ten minutes under the weight of traffic. The story was truly global, truly immense: not Obama, not Justin Bieber, not Psy and not Bin Laden had ever touched this, he said. Not Khaled Saeed and not Mohamed Bouazizi, either. If Pippa Middleton and Megan Fox had announced their intention to marry during a live theatrical production of 50 Shades of Grey starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and then taken off their clothes to reveal their bodies tattooed with the text of the eighth Harry Potter novel, they might have approached this level of frenzy. But probably not, the boy said, because not everyone liked Benedict Cumberbatch.”
― Tigerman
― Tigerman
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Scott wrote: "Merry christmas."Thank you, Scott. Same to you and yours.
