LOL! Boooooooks

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Turning coma hallucinations into art

Zara Slattery had vivid hallucinations during a medical coma while fighting a flesh-eating bug.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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Seems surprising they didn't think to consult her about the jackets and blub for the re-issue:

Jeanette Winterson burns her own books in protest at ‘cosy little blurbs’

British novelist says republished works were presented as ‘wimmins fiction of the worst kind’

www.theguardian.com

Not, I suspect, a mistake they'll soon make again.

 

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ETA: Grr -- Mr Patel has removed his video about why he's not reading any books other than bedtime stories for his kids, because books are all outdated, and you can find anything you need to know in a few minutes in blogs and YouTube and so on.

 

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They'll write about anything these days.

 

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‘At first I thought, this is crazy’: the real-life plan to use novels to predict the next war

Three years ago, a small group of academics at a German university launched an unprecedented collaboration with the military – using novels to try to pinpoint the world’s next conflicts. Are they on to something?

www.theguardian.com

 

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"Return from the Stars"
Stanislaw Lens. Written in 1961.

 

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A sci-fi writer got meta about gender. The internet responded by ruining her life.

Isabel Fall’s sci-fi story “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter” drew the ire of the internet. A year later, she’s still picking through the wreckage.

www.vox.com

 

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It's not really a book, but,

Neurocracy is future fiction in the form of Wikipedia

The episodic game kicks off on July 14th.

www.theverge.com

 

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Thread. Worth it.

 

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Social media interactions with a novelist.

 

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Social media interactions with a novelist.

Boo! Hiss!

Twitter falls for a fake Cormac McCarthy account, again

Musings from the fake account began to pick up steam this past weekend, leading to the account being verified

www.avclub.com

 

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Hmm...

Substack is getting into comics

A new spin on webcomics.

www.theverge.com

Substack is trying to put a new spin on webcomics. The newsletter platform announced today that it’s signed a number of comics creators up to use its platform. They’ll email comics out to readers and use Substack’s subscription tools to charge directly for access to their work.

It’s a new type of content for Substack, which has predominantly been focused on (written) newsletters covering topics like politics, tech, and culture. But the expansion to comics makes plenty of sense. Comics have long been successful online, but they’ve largely been supported by ads and merch sales. Substack offers comics creators a chance at something a little closer to selling readers a new issue at the store each month.

 

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This is cruel and unusual punishment. I'd beg the judge to send me to prison instead of making me read Jane Austin. I tried reading Pride and Prejudice once. I barely made it through the first chapter. Jane Austin is the worst author I've ever read. If I was stranded on a desert island, and that book was the only form of entertainment I had, I'd use it for kindling.

White supremacist from Lincoln sentenced to read classic novels

"I will test you and if I think you are [lying to] me you will suffer."

www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk

 

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Fuckers.

 

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