Failing again. Failing better.
A while back I posted a response to author Jim C. Hines highlighting the ridiculous poses female characters have on book covers. Well, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, so Hines is back, posing like a man. As you can see from many of the poses, the male characters aren’t contorted…
At this point, I think it’s a fairly safe bet that television will increasingly become a service provided over the internet rather than transmitted over cable or satellite. Of course, there are quite a few questions that need to be resolved first: technical and financial ones mostly. But this hasn’t stopped Chris Hardwick of Nerdist…
Check out my guest post on Lawyerist.com. It’s a simple, five-step plan for junior legal associates interested in building their client development skills. Even if you are not a newbie lawyer, I think you find it interesting and useful if you need to improve your networking skills. Yes, I realize it’s not sci fi or…
I came across this blog post earlier today. Molly Flatt covered a speech by Lev Grossman (@leverus) at the Oxford Literary Festival in which he focused on genre versus literary fiction. He traced the division of fiction into literary fiction and genre, and he explained the various institutions that reinforced this division over time. He…
I came across a couple of articles that called attention to an upcoming announcement by a new company called Planetary Resources and the possibility that it will operate as an asteroid mining business. On Tuesday, April 24, Planetary Resources will host a conference call that it claims will “create a new industry and a new…