Let’s Talk Process: Works in Translation
Translation. It wan’t until grad school I considered translation from another language to be a potential reading pitfall. I was writing a paper on...
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Monday Review: Lock In by John Scalzi
When Luke and I discussed How to Train Your Dragon on the podcast last week, we touched briefly upon the idea of Hiccup and Toothless being...
Sentenced: Luke for 2104-09-14
WHEN I WAKE UP, I CAN’T REMEMBER ANY OF MY PASSWORDS. Twelve Tomorrows – Countermeasures by Christopher Brown Such a beautiful encapsulation of “first world...
Sentenced: Shiri’s 9-14-14 Edition
Another from The Great First Line Collection, this one the start of All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka. Mind, it’s a translation from Japanese...
What Luke Is Reading
Twelve Tomorrows edited by Bruce Sterling. MIT Technology Review is doing a yearly special where they have a whole bunch of great sci-fi authors do...
That Which Shiri is Reading: 9-13-14
All You Need is Kill, source material for Edge of Tomorrow, which I haven’t seen because Tom Cruise, but heard was very good. Short little...
More dispatches from the Last Chance Salon…
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Dispatches From the Last Chance Salon
Community Announcement: Massage Therapy Apocalypse got you down? Mother-in-law a literal harpy? Too many dimensional gate shifts? Work summoning fail at a critical moment? Hex...
Multi-review: Dreampark, Barsoom Project, California Voodoo Game and Moon Maze Game
I read the first Dreampark book a long, long time ago, might not have been in 1981 when it was first published, but it was...
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