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CONFESSIONS OF A BOOK JUNKIE #8: Collectors and Collecting
by Lavie Tidhar I used to work for an Internet service provider in London. It was in technical support, a less-than-glamorous department–one of the team-leaders, in fact, ended up in prison for GBH (causing Grievous Bodily Harm) after attacking a member of staff who was belittling ...
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SF Tidbits for 9/1/08
SF Signal — ... by Paul Cole. Concept Sci-fi #2 features fiction by Lee Gimenez, Andrew Males, Susan Murray, Aurelio Rico Lopez III, Ben O' Neill, Michael Kechula and Walter Jon Williams. [via Variety SF] Locus Online has posted the contents of the September 2008 issue of Locus Magazine. Asimov's and Analog will be getting a slightly new format. [via Jason Sanford] Over at Apex, Lavie Tidhar talks about book collectors and collecting. From 2007: J.G. ...

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