‘Wrinkle in Time’ author dies at 88 – CNN.com
A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.
Madeleine L’Engle, RIP
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Alas, she won it for writing a novel, not for a game.
This is nice news for the gaming industry because Naomi Novik is a former game designer — she worked on Bioware’s Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide.
So now the question is when a writer will win it for a game, instead of a book (no matter how great the books are).
World Fantasy Awards finalists
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Aug 132007
Whoohoo, congrats to Mark Finn (whom I know from the Texas SF/F scene, Tryptophan/Turkey City stuff).
And I told you that Privilege of the Sword was really good. 🙂 I need to track down some of these others… The novel nominees:
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- Lisey’s Story, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton)
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- The Privilege of the Sword, Ellen Kushner (Bantam Spectra; Small Beer Press)
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- The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch (Gollancz; Bantam Spectra)
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- The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Garden, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)
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- Soldier of Sidon, Gene Wolfe (Tor)
The last Harry Potter
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Jul 222007
Found it in the mailbox at 9pm, after waiting for it to be dropped at the door all day. Just finished it (it’s 1am).
A worthy end.
Book Review-O-Rama part two
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Jul 212007
Whoof, a huge backlog to get through here, and I have already added more to the finished stack that I want to mention. So brief reviews this time.
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die was really, really good. The book is basically about what makes concepts memorable when you present them. The authors outline a very simple formula that lines up well with the various book I have read on cognitive psych (in fact, the bibliography shares a large number of books with A Theory of Fun). Highly recommended — this is one of the best general popsci/business books I have read in quite a while.
