SF Tidbits for 6/26/07
By John DeNardo |
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 at
12:05 am
- John Scalzi interviews Allen Steele, author of Spindrift.
- Subterranean Online has posted new fiction: “Unrequited Love” by Gene Wolfe and a new Gene Wolfe Story and “Suicide Jack and the One-Eyed King” (Part 2) by Elizabeth Bear
- LifeHack lists 14 Ways to Cultivate a Lifetime Reading Habit. “If reading is a habit you’d like to get into, there are a number of ways to cultivate it.”
- James Patrick Kelly is podcasting his novel Look Into the Sun. Here’s Part 19.
- John C. Wright lists children’s books that are better than Northern Lights (a.k.a. The Golden Compass).
- Infinity Plus interviews Eric Brown, author of Helix.
- Here’s a video Charles Stross talking about The Atrocity Archives. [via Big Dumb Object via Orbit Books]
- Wired looks at 60 Years of Flying Saucers.
- The complex and terrifying reality of Star Wars fandom: Star Wars fans hate Star Wars! [via Geekend]
- Orbit Books is running a contest. The winner gets a book a month from Orbit US.
- At Strange Horizons, Matt Cheney asks “What are you going to do with all those books?“
- Reacting to an essay in The New York Review of Science Fiction, Matt Cheney also ponders The Shibboleth of “The Literary Establishment. L.E. Modesitt responds, too.
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I used to have a large number of books as well. However, I find myself reducing the number of texts I keep on hand every year. Many times the books were good enough to read one time but not a second. It’s these texts I’ve started to donate or give away over time. There are just a few books that I know I’ll go back and read again (The Fountainhead, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Fear and Loathing, etcetera) that I keep on hand.
Another option is audiobooks. I’ve been an addicted Audible user for years now. It’s nice to have a library of a few hundred books that take up no room whatsoever.
I think I’m one of the few that wishes eBooks would take off. I’d love to pay 1/2 price for an eBook version of a text that I could download on demand.
To me, the personal library as a stack of books taking up room in my house has jumped the big fish with sharp teeth. Besides, how would I fit all of them in my retirement AirStream?