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‘I just wanted my life to end’: The mystery of Agatha Christie’s disappearance
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George Dawson book about racism effectively banned at George Dawson Middle School
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Lars Kepler, pen name of husband-and-wife crime fiction-writing team, recommend books that take readers beyond fictitious murders to the soul of Stockholm
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With a reputation for having more authors per capita than any other country, Olaf Olafsson leads a literary stroll through Iceland's capital
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Short story review: A Logic Named Joe by Murray Leinster
A Logic Named Joe is a 1946 Sci Fi short story that introduces concepts such as the internet, streaming music and streaming video, search engines with family friendly filters and artificial...
A Logic Named Joe is a 1946 Sci Fi short story that introduces concepts such as the internet, streaming music and streaming video, search engines with family friendly filters and artificial intelligence.
Link to story: http://www.baen.com/chapters/W200506/0743499107___2.htm
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Salman Rushdie attacked onstage at New York event
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Old jokes
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What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
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Is alternate history science fiction?
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What will survive of Philip Larkin
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Sanderson’s First Law for magic systems
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Where do you acquire books?
Hello! I do a fair bit of my reading via Libby (I have memberships at the NYPL and Brooklyn Public Library) but I like to pick up some physical copies as well. I've spent some time in a couple of...
Hello! I do a fair bit of my reading via Libby (I have memberships at the NYPL and Brooklyn Public Library) but I like to pick up some physical copies as well. I've spent some time in a couple of NYC bookstores but I'm curious about online portals folks here use to buy books. I've switched to bookshop.org for new books but what's the go to for used books?
Thanks!
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Interlinear Books: Learn between the lines (Subtitled books)
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Twilight of the libraries: What gets lost when books go off-site and online
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What are some good examples of retro sci-fi literature (retrofuturism)?
So I'm reading Asimov's short-story anthology The Complete Robot, which contains stories written between 1939 and 1977, and I'm fascinated by several instances in which Asimov tries to predict the...
So I'm reading Asimov's short-story anthology The Complete Robot, which contains stories written between 1939 and 1977, and I'm fascinated by several instances in which Asimov tries to predict the future of robotics.
When he gets it right is just as interesting as when he gets it wrong, as even when he's wrong, he's wrong in very interesting ways.
For example, it's very interesting how Asimov seems to think that everything must have a positronic brain (which often produces something either identical or very close consciousness), when in reality we now have numerous useful robots that have nothing of the sort.
So this made me thinking, I think I'd like to write a story that was just like that, an exploration of universal themes that is facilitated by simplified technology. A form of retrofuturism. And since I had the idea, obviously someone else had it before. I wanna read it! More recent stories, especially those with old-school robots and artificial intelligence. Any suggestions?
Also open to other medias, but books would be particularly helpful.
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Some of the world's most celebrated authors have written manuscripts that won't be published for a century – why?
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Reading The Wheel of Time
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Book review: The Dawn Of Everything
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The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity by Carlo M. Cipolla
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9 votes -
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Dracula Daily
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The book that sank on the Titanic and burned in the Blitz
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8 votes -
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Book review of A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression
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Two "stolen" notebooks written by Charles Darwin have been mysteriously returned to Cambridge University, twenty-two years after they were last seen
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Climate activist Greta Thunberg has compiled a handbook for tackling the world's interconnected environmental crises, with contributions from leading scientists and writers
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Idol words
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The Billionaire’s Bard: On the rationalist fictions of Neal Stephenson
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Harry Potter (a literary analysis)
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13 votes -
It's time to come clean
22 votes -
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9 votes -
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Furries are leading the war against a book-banning Mississippi Mayor
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The Talented Mr. Bernardini - A young Italian is accused of pulling off the book world’s most perplexing crime. Who is he?
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16 votes -
Tennessee school board bans Holocaust graphic novel ‘Maus’ – author Art Spiegelman condemns the move as ‘Orwellian’
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Textual healing: The novel world of bibliotherapy
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5 votes