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entertheoctopus.wordpress.com - 3/20/2009

Links and Things

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Ekaterina Sedia to speak at Library of Congress forum Paul Di Filippo reviews Walter Jon Willliams’ “This is Not a Game” IO9 reviews Lake and Gever’s new antho “Other Earths” Have the days of public lending libraries passed? What’s the “worst best book” you’ve ever read? Has Fujitsu ...

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nethspace.blogspot.com - 3/16/2009

Why I love Sy Fy and Other Links

— nethspace.blogspot.com — It’s been a while since I shared some links, so here they are. Not many, but enough... to stave off boredom for at least 3 minutes. The Science Fiction Channel (SciFi) is now the Sy Fy channel . There is way too much discussion to even try to link – but to some it up: everyone hates the new ... (more) Why I love Sy Fy and Other Links

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Are Free Libraries Still Justified?
SF Signal — Via Enter the Octopus, Kevin Myers at The Independent asks: Are free libraries still justified? Now, only a baboon would deny the usefulness of free libraries to children. But why should any well-paid person like myself have their literary tastes paid for, including author royalties, by the taxpayer? Meanwhile, the bookshop down the road has to match the range of taxpayer-funded facilities being provided free of charge at the library, and make a profit, a concept about as foreign to a state-run lending library as toilet paper is to a ...