John Hodgman offers a great review of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus for the New York Times book review.
Link.

I’ve never been a huge opponent of DRM. It seems natural that copyright owners would seek to protect their property in some way and the draw backs, such as increased power consumption by devices playing protected files, seemed minimal. But today defective by design hit home.
I’ve already blogged about loving Larry Brown but I haven’t […]

If you enjoy modern literature, you owe it to yourself to become familiar with the work of Mississippian writer Larry Brown. Brown is a recent, and rather recently deceased, fixture of Southern American lit whose work honestly, unflinchingly and quite beautifully paints life in the north Mississippi sticks.
Author of six novels, two short story […]

SciFi.com is gutting annihilating their archive of science fiction stories.

As of Friday, June 15, 2007, SCI FICTION will no longer be available on SCIFI.COM. SCIFI.COM would like to thank all those who contributed and those who read the short stories over the past few years.
Get it while it’s extant.
Link via BoingBoing via Joel. (I […]