Comments on: finding good books by staring at selected authors in public settings

By: del

del — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:43:20 +0000

[here from David Levine's live journal]

You’ll know when you’re really talking inside baseball, when you can not only remember the author of that book you liked, but which company published it, and who the editor was…

By: David McBride

David McBride — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:11:40 +0000

As I seem to be doing everywhere now, I can enthusiastically recommend the works of Charles Stross. See: homepage, "The Concrete Jungle".

By: David D. Levine

David D. Levine — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:46:45 +0000

“The Ted Chiang of Toontown”

I am totally putting that on my tombstone.

Thanks for coming!

By: Liz

Liz — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:36:00 +0000

Terry Bisson is also that guy who wrote the really fabulous alternate history I told you all about! Fire on the Mountain, where the Civil War never happened and instead there was a successful slave rebellion and the good bits of the U.S. and Nova Africa are all Mars-going Socialists. Also, they're made of meat.