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| Dec 10, 2024 | Now Available: Winter in the City: A Collection of Dark Speculative Fiction explores the darker side of human nature set in cities around the world | Available Today!
The New Anthology Published by Ruadán Books is a Collection of Discovery and Horror, Strangeness and Hope
BOSTON, Dec. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Ruadán Books, the new publishing house created by entrepreneur, author an... |
| Sep 20, 2023 | Фантазии, которые сбылись: какие писатели точно предсказали технологии будущего? | Научная фантастика — жанр, в котором литераторы свободно рисуют миры будущего, используя собственные знания и воображения. Иногда их фантазии очень точно предсказывают технологии, которые возникают лишь спустя десятилетия. Так, первый искус... |
| Jul 31, 2023 | Things to do
Things to do | The mystery of a ‘ghost’ author, a prophetic novel and some social media sleuths | By Liz Ohanesian, special to Southern California News Group
Margaret O’Donnell couldn’t be found.
The author of “The Beehive,” a 1980 novel of speculative fiction dealing with the kind of feminist issues that would later feature in Margaret... |
| Jan 31, 2023 | Джон Лассетер — аниматор-бунтарь из Pixar: он благословил Джобса и восхищался Миядзаки | Его дважды увольняла студия Disney: за прогрессивные взгляды и сексуальные домогательства. Стив Джобс поддерживал его и спонсировал короткометражные работы. Лассетер снял «Историю игрушек» — первый полностью компьютерно-анимированный полном... |
| Jan 28, 2023 | Джон Лассетер — аниматор-бунтарь, который благословил Джобса и восхищался Миядзаки | Его дважды увольняла студия Disney: за прогрессивные взгляды и сексуальные домогательства. Стив Джобс поддерживал его и спонсировал короткометражные работы. Лассетер снял «Историю игрушек» и создал лампу Luxo Jr. — логотип студии Pixar. За ... |
| Nov 14, 2022 | Карты миров в научной фантастике | Статья впервые опубликована в НЬЮ-ЙОРКСКОМ ОБЗОРЕ НАУЧНОЙ ФАНТАСТИКИ 356 (Февраль 2022)
Карты играют важную роль в жанре фэнтези: "Никакой тур в страну Фантазий не является полным без нее [карты]", пишет Диана Уинн Джонс (автор кн... |
| Sep 18, 2022 | Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ Trailer Recalls A World History Of Diverse Sea Creatures | Halle Bailey appears as Ariel in The Little Mermaid live-action remake.Disney and YouTube |
| Sep 2, 2022 | The Stock Market Blew Its Chance of Recovery After the Jobs Report. What Went Wrong. | August’s payrolls data was greeted with chants of “Goldilocks” for being not too hot and not too cold. Investors, however, forgot that “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” didn’t really have a happy ending.
It’s easy to see why markets initiall... |
| Jun 15, 2022 | Sorry Millennials, but Jurassic Park was never a good movie | Jurassic World Dominion opened to big box office this past weekend, along with some of the worst reviews of the six-movie franchise — a 30% score on Rotten Tomatoes — which is saying something, given that most of the entries in this series ... |
| Jun 3, 2022 | Every single Angelina Jolie movie, ranked | Entertainment Every single Angelina Jolie movie, ranked
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| Nov 19, 2021 | Experimental fiction king, best-selling author Stephen Graham Jones talks graphic novel ‘Memorial Ride’ | There’s something about tales that take place on America’s dusty highways that stick with readers long after a final chapter’s end. Stephen Graham Jones in April 2021. (Stephen Graham Jones/Courtesy photo)
Mile markers, roadside haunts, dim... |
| Oct 4, 2021 | The end of China’s runaway growth | |
| Feb 6, 2021 | Original Content podcast: Pixar’s ‘Soul’ offers a lively visit to pre-pandemic New York | For the latest episode of the Original Content podcast, we looked back at “Soul,” which was released on Disney+ at the end of last year.
The new Pixar film tells the story of Joe Gardner, a high school music teacher and jazz musician voiced... |
| Jan 8, 2021 | ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 3 Was Sci-Fi For A Quarantined Future | After nine months of social distancing in New York’s outer boroughs, my iPhone’s algorithms know to show me black scally caps, kettlebells, and leather jackets with a Mad Max cut. I might want to visit the Hebrides or follow a Viking diet. ... |
| Jun 28, 2020 | Magic: The Gathering’s digital history, from first build to end step | It was easy to get into Magic: The Gathering when I was 11 years old. The air was crisp, and the leaves were turning, as September 1994 rolled into October. The game was taking over my schoolyard thanks to Ms. Dierdre Lukyn, the coolest tea... |
| Jun 28, 2020 | Magic: The Gathering’s digital history, from first build to end step | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It was easy to get into Magic: The Gathering when I was 11 years old. The air was crisp, and the leaves were turning, as September 1994... |
| May 23, 2019 | Here’s the first teaser trailer for the new Star Trek: Picard series | Just a bit shy of a year ago, Patrick Stewart blew the minds of Star Trek fans everywhere by taking the stage at the Las Vegas Star Trek convention to announce he was returning to the role of Jean-Luc Picard.
His return would come in the fo... |
| Apr 19, 2018 | Laura Tyson will be speaking at TC Sessions: Robotics May 11 at UC Berkeley | We’re less than a month out from TC Sessions: Robotics, and we’ve still got some key names to share with you for the big event. We’ve already announced some of the top names in robotics, including Playground’s Andy Rubin, Boston Dynamics’ M... |
| Feb 23, 2018 | ‘Annihilation’ is an unsettling science fiction fever dream | Writer-director Alex Garland has said that his adaptation of Annihilation isn’t a straightforward retelling of the book — instead, he’s described it as “true to my subjective response to the novel.”
That’s a fair warning: The movie’s detail... |
| Feb 17, 2018 | Digital nomads are hiring and firing their governments | The nation state has survived wars, plagues, and upheaval, but it won’t survive digital nomads, not if people like Karoli Hindriks have something to say about it. Hindriks is the founder of Jobbatical, a platform that allows digital nomads ... |
| Jan 24, 2017 | Database CIA Claimed Too Difficult To Compile For FOIA Requesters Released In Full On CIA Website | The CIA has millions of declassified records stashed away in Maryland — something it claimed was accessible to the public. Actual access, however, resembles something out of Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil,” rather than what any reasonable person w... |
| Aug 15, 2016 | Fans celebrate Star Trek’s 50th anniversary | Here’s something I asked myself a lot last weekend: Am I really a serious Star Trek fan?
The obvious answer: Well, sure. I’ve watched hundreds of hours of Star Trek on TV, I’ve seen all of the movies multiple times and I pride myself on bei... |
| Jul 16, 2016 | Immersion is going to be immense | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Jun 20, 2015 | Here Come The Dannies | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Apr 8, 2015 | Online Shop Around the Corner: Oyster Launches Ebook Store | If anyone has managed to not read Gone Girl, the Random House title is now available for purchase. (Photo: Oyster)
Ebook startup Oyster is moving beyond an unlimited subscription model to include an online bookstore, the company announced t... |
| Jan 13, 2015 | Publisher Macmillan Signs On With E-Book Subscription Services Oyster And Scribd | Macmillan, one of the “Big Five” book publishers in the United States, is making its titles available on subscription e-book services Oyster and Scribd, starting today.
The news isn’t exactly a surprise, since Macmillan CEO John Sargent wro... |
| May 7, 2013 | WordPress’ Share Of The World’s Top Blogs Increases | The majority of the world’s top 100 blogs are using WordPress, according to a new report from Pingdom, and the content management system’s share of these blogs is on the rise.
According to the firm, 52% of these blogs are using WordPress, u... |
| May 4, 2013 | Tor Books says cutting DRM out of its e-books hasn’t hurt business | reader comments 84 with 51 posters participating
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| May 2, 2013 | Tor Books UK Says Ditching DRM Showed No Increase In Piracy | We’ve never quite understood the purpose behind DRM, and have said so many times. It doesn’t stop infringement, because the DRM is always cracked, and the crack always leads to a clean version. And once you have a clean version, it’s availa... |
| Apr 20, 2013 | Fox Censors Cory Doctorow’s “Homeland” Novel From Google | Cory Doctorow’s latest novel Homeland tells the story of an infowar, the suppression of information and the fight against censorship.
The setting of the fictional book is a realistic scenario according to activists, and on a small scale the... |
| Mar 4, 2013 | White House Turns Star Wars / Star Trek Mistake Into Funny Meme | As I’ve said before, you better have a sense of humor if you’re going to be a politician. Not too long ago, the White House issued a direct response to a petition that America build a Death Star, for instance. The writer of that response pr... |
| Aug 14, 2012 | Plunging Through Time To Rescue Out Of Print Sci-Fi Books | From time to time, we talk about the issue of orphaned works and how these out of print books are doing nobody any good. The public loses out as they are out of print and very often can't be found. The authors or owners of the copyright los... |
| Apr 26, 2012 | Tor Listens To Authors And Readers And Ditches DRM | We have said quite a bit about the perils of DRM and how many in the entertainment industry still insist on its use despite the fact that it is pointless as a deterrent to piracy and only leads to frustration for paying customers. Recently,... |
| Apr 24, 2012 | Tor Books to release only DRM-free e-books | reader comments 76 with 48 posters participating
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| Apr 13, 2012 | Interesting: Law Firm Leading The Antitrust Charge Against Apple Shares A Seattle Address With Amazon | Updated. Coincidence, or conspiracy? It’s a classic question that gets brought up when the details of any intriguing story start to surface. And some industry insiders are asking it in relation to the antitrust charges being brought against... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | 16 states file lawsuits against Apple, joining DOJ’s antitrust fight | Sixteen states have piled lawsuits on top of Apple, Macmillan, Penguin, and Simon and Schuster, four companies which were served with an antitrust lawsuit this morning by the Department of Justice.
The suit is led by Texas and Connecticut, ... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | Antitrust Suit: Does Amazon Have a Right to a Price Monopoly? | There’s no question that six major e-book publishers decided it was necessary to impose on retailers an “agency pricing” scheme – a set price that a reseller must agree to. Nobody kept this a secret – in fact, it may be the lack of secrecy ... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | Apple and publishers accused of price fixing | Agency pricing model is at the heart of the Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit
As expected, the Department of Justice filed Wednesday a lawsuit, accusing Apple and five publishing - Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon... |
| Sep 3, 2010 | The Creators Project Spotlight: Week 7-8 | The Creators Project is a celebration of creativity and innovation in the digital age. To our mind, one of the best things about technology is that with a little inspiration, it empowers anyone to create by making the tools of production an... |
| Dec 19, 2009 | NSFW: Free as in "my publisher will disown me after I pirate my book on TechCrunch" | “So that’s your advice is it? As my agent? On the week my book comes out in paperback, I should produce my own pirated version and give it away free? Why don’t I just punch my publisher in the face? That would be less work.”
My agent rocked... |
