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Bryan speaking on digital storytelling in Burlington
I'll be speaking on a panel about digital storytelling next month. It's Saturday, 9/24, at the Burlington Book Festival. Stop by!
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Storytelling-the ability to describe a world beyond the present moment-may be the defining feature and crowning achievement of our species. Nearly everyone is a storyteller, but those who tell stories with great
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As usual, GoodReads manages to get things wrong with its 'updates'. First, it stops our ability to share reviews outside its closed garden. This simply means that reviews are doubled up on Library Thing and The StoryGraph. The first acts as back-up b" Read more of this review » |
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This is a fascinating book, one of Tchaikovsky's best. The novel concerns humans on an alien world, their settlement a combination labor camp and research station. (Read for our local sf book club) In terms of science fiction, it's a planetary romance ...more |
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"I would give this three stars because of the long soliloquies where the author describes literally every single one of the character's thoughts.
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"If Raskolnikov was the charismatic murderer whose side I took despite myself when he killed an old woman out of greed and broke down psychologically afterwards, Prince Myshkin is the supposedly good, childlike Christ figure whom I failed to like at a"
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"A rambling story with flashes of genius throughout and a shattering ending.
I learned a lot by reading this edition's introduction. This being my first read, I read it after the novel, which was the right choice. I was impressed by Dostoevsky's strugg" Read more of this review » |
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This is a thoughtful and engaging science fiction novel. The plot turns on a human colony trying to establish itself on a new world, struggling with the local biome and human politics. Each section of the book offers a different slice of the story, o ...more |
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“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
― The Origin of Species
― The Origin of Species
“Then he explained in a whisper that the plan was composed entirely of awesome. It was made and designed by the House of Awesome, from materials found in the deep awesome mines of Awesometania and it would be recorded in the Annals of Awesome - and nowhere else, because any other book would catch fire and explode from the awesome - and by its awesomeness it would be known from now until the crack of doom.”
― Tigerman
― Tigerman
“Kershaw had long ago realised, apparently, that dealing with Brits was tricky. You had to listen to what a Brit was saying -- which was invariably that he thought XYZ was a terrific idea and he hoped it went very well for you -- while at the same time paying heed to the greasy, nauseous suspicion you had that, although every word and phrase indicated approval, somehow the sum of the whole was that you'd have to be a mental pygmy to come up with this plan and a complete fucking idiot to pursue it.”
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― Tigerman
“An ugly calm lay over the streets like the anticipation of a beating.”
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― Tigerman
“The boy reported - after the Sergeant had slept for a few hours, which was not nearly enough - that YouTube had actually gone down for ten minutes under the weight of traffic. The story was truly global, truly immense: not Obama, not Justin Bieber, not Psy and not Bin Laden had ever touched this, he said. Not Khaled Saeed and not Mohamed Bouazizi, either. If Pippa Middleton and Megan Fox had announced their intention to marry during a live theatrical production of 50 Shades of Grey starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and then taken off their clothes to reveal their bodies tattooed with the text of the eighth Harry Potter novel, they might have approached this level of frenzy. But probably not, the boy said, because not everyone liked Benedict Cumberbatch.”
― Tigerman
― Tigerman
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E.T.A. Hoffman, H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson and (arguably) Clive Barker all moved horror fiction forward in their time. Who's doing so today? I t ...more
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Central Community Library Science Fiction Readers Discussion Book Group. Meets on the third Saturday of every month from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Cen ...more
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This group is dedicated to an appreciation of important works of literature, both classic and contemporary... that happen to fall into the category of ...more
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Tip off each other to great authors like Kage Baker, Alastair Reynolds, Charles Stross, Linda Nagata, Nancy Kress, Tim Powers... Anyone who writes nov ...more
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This is our first book club adventure and we are using it as an opportunity to both learn about and experiment with social media. We hope you’ll learn ...more
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Scott wrote: "Merry christmas."Thank you, Scott. Same to you and yours.
