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 Earth’s center, in his intriguing first trade hardcover novel, a fantasy set in the magic-tinged late 19th century. Archangel Gabriel charges clockmaker’s apprentice Hethor Jacques [...]
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Mainspring by Jay Lake
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments by George Johnson
Science, when it is distilled, comes down to experimentation. In this day science experimentation is relegated to huge teams of scientists with the goal of making a profit (this is broad generalization but for my purposes it makes a good point). It is rare that there [...]
4theLuv Markets and the Reader
I own Horror Literature Quarterly. I say this because I want full disclosure before I move on to the bulk of this essay about non paying markets and the relationship with its readers. Horror Literature Quarterly pays its authors at least five cents a word and according to the Horror Writers Association that makes [...]
Some More Recommendations from A Gently Mad Blog
I just posted last week a quick list of recommended books here: Book Recommendations: Critical Thinking Version. Last week I received my order from Barnes and Nobel that includedFollies of the Wise, by Frederick Crews and I started reading it on Saturday. I highly recommend it. Crews tackles Freud, pyschoanalysis, and repressed memories and [...]
Book Recommendations: Critical Thinking Version
I haven’t recommended any books in a long time so here is a quick little list of books. This is all non fiction and borders on a theme of critical thinking. So without much more of an introduction I recommend:
