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More Small Press Price Point Problems

» by Paul August 18th, 2008 at 2:00 pm » Comments (0)

Back on April 29th I showed what $75 could buy you from the secondary market. I was discussing the price point of limited editions in the specialty press and how, ...more »

Neal Stephenson and The Long Now

» by Paul August 18th, 2008 at 11:59 am » Comments (0)

Has a new book coming out, Anathem. Wired had a pretty interesting article on him and the Long Now and long time and stuff. The book sounds pretty ...more »

Mainspring by Jay Lake

» by Paul August 11th, 2008 at 1:45 pm » Comments (1)

Mainspring by Jay Lake From Publisher's Weekly: Lake (Trial of Flowers) envisions the universe as an enormous clockwork, put in motion by God, complete with gears and a mainspring hidden at the ...more »

Book Delivery

» by Paul July 30th, 2008 at 11:15 am » Comments (1)

It has been sometime since I posted in my book blog. I have a couple of entries in the preliminary stages and I hope to get back to them ...more »

On How and Why Reading Older Books Gives Me Persepective On New Books

» by Paul June 11th, 2008 at 2:25 pm » Comments (0)

The past few months I have picked up the classics. Or what people consider the classics in genre fiction. Novels from HG Wells, Jules Verne, MR James, Ambrose ...more »