We are fast approaching one of the most important days of the year–April 1st. Not only is it an excellent day to have a birthday, it’s also a good excuse to eat bunny cakes and torment loved ones. So in the spirit of this fine day, please share some April Fool’s gags so I may
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Radio and TV have incredible power. But until the last decade they were always constrained by time and signal power. You had to listen when the station broadcast it, and you had to listen where you could pick up the signal. Living out in the boonies we don’t get good radio or TV reception (no I don’t subscribe to
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This is J. K. Rowling’s 2008 Harvard commencement speech, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination.” It’s one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard. Watch and then watch again. Read the full text here. Two quotes that in no way can do justice to the whole thing. And so rock bottom
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Laura Miller at Salon.com has it all wrong when she says promoting books with movie-style trailers is a silly idea. Here, watch this book trailer for Scott Westerfield’s Leviathan. Yeah, I know you want to–go ahead, watch it again. Miller looks at book trailers, sees that the vast majority of them are lame, lame, lame (actually,
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Tor is posting ALL the stories in the Year’s Best Fantasy 9 anthology (published summer 2009) for FREE. Mine was in the second installment, but you can already get it here. What you want are all the others! For example, installment 3 has one of my favorite short stories I read last year: Kij Johnson’s
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