A very short list from the Telegraph.
Author: Anders Monsen (Page 28 of 82)
That seems to be the consensus after astronomers discover planets orbiting Tau Ceti, only 12 light years away from Earth. One of those might lie within the habitable zone. I just hope they don’t name it Tau Ceti 5. Maybe Alphanor?
Slavery might be as old as mankind, and even in the 21st century this abhorrent practice exists. When there are free markets and humans can move freely to find job opportunities, then maybe slavery will vanish.
Another view on the forthcoming rapture of the nerds, over at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. The gloomy conclusion: “Singularitarians are selling snake oil, just in a shinier container with more free gadgets. The singularity, and advanced intelligences, will not and cannot be a panacea for the systemic oppression and exploitation inherent in capitalism, and as such will never benefitall of humanity.” In other words, capitalism bad, and all bad things in the world caused by capitalism.
An article over at NPR asks whether fiction can change how we think about ideas, framed around a novel by Barbara Kingsolver on global warming, er, climate change.
Finishing a book started by her noted historian Paul Avrich, Karen Avrich covers the lives of noted anarchist Emma Goldman and her lover/semi-fellow thinker Alexander Berkman.
From the Norwegian broadcasting corporation, a story about Rebecca Dinerstein, a young American poet who spent a year in Norway, learned Norwegian, and published a collection of poems entitled “Lofoten.” She is just 25 years old, and when she received a scholarship to travel abroad, elected to visit the chilly and foreboding northern climes of Lofoten. The collection contains poems in Norwegian and English side by side.
Does it still hold true that women writers enjoy more general success when using a masculine or gender- neutral initials as their byline? This article certainly make the case, though by now when I see a writer with two initials and no first name I’m 90% sure that writer is female. But I do think the quality of the fiction matters more, at least to me.
Writer Harlan Ellison plans a new graphic novel, 7 Against Chaos some time in 2013.
A review over at the Washington Post of the Library of America’s two volume collection of some early science fiction novels. Most were published in the middle of the 20th century, and include authors like Robert A. Heinlein, Theodore Stugeon, Alfred Bester, and others. Catch it before the paywall rises.
