Category: Fun and Games
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Review of Charles Stross’ Accelerando
Charles Stross’ Website Free ebook download of Accelerando Continuing my string of book reviews (or more likely, just bragging that I read a book) is Charles Stross’ “Aceelerando”. The book was published in 2006 (I think) and is a very interesting read in the Science Fiction “Singularity” genre. I have written a bit about the […]
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Quick Manga Reviews
One of the interesting things about working at Amazon Japan on the 14th floor is the shelf of free books you can peruse. There are lots of manga, so I started randomly grabbing volumes here and there. Here are some random reviews (click the links on the left to go to the product pages on […]
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Another site with SF ebooks for free
Check out StarRigger.net for some free SF ebooks. I haven’t heard of this series, but I’ve downloaded the first three books, and if they are fun I plan to donate to the author. This just makes it so easy to check new stuff out.
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The F1 Grand Prix at the Fuji Motor Speedway
Mt. Fuji from Fuji Speedway F1 car! Netz Race Lots of flags Opening ceremony taiko F1 Car at the race Lots of people wearing flags too For L.’s birthday a few months ago I got L. and I tickets to the F1 Grand Prix in Japan. I don’t know much about F1 Racing, but I […]
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Book and Backlog
I went to America last month, and as usual, I read a storm on the plane. I’ve been meaning to post this for ages, but I’ve been ridiculously busy so I haven’t gotten around to it. I’m finally going to just take some time this morning and post stuff. Space Opera I read the first […]
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How the free ebook “Old Man’s War” sold a bunch of other John Scalzi books
A while back, I wrote about reading Ebooks on the OLPC. I am really interested in getting myself a Kindle, but until there is a Japanese release I don’t see the point of buying one: the wireless portion won’t work in Japan, and that is a very attractive feature that I would rather not neuter. […]
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The Crabbing Boat
I heard about this book sometime last week I think. I’m not sure where, but probably from one of the blogs that I follow. It is a very interesting and curious phenomena: a book written in 1929 becomes suddenly very popular. I’m curious, and thinking about getting a copy. Anyway, first up: an excellent introduction […]
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Ebook reviews: Peter Watts’ Maelstrom and Behemoth
In the past I read and wrote up Peter Watts’ Starfish. The review comes off a bit negative I think, which isn’t quite right because immediately after Starfish, I found the other two novels online and started reading them (sequentially, not in parallel.) Maelstrom has a different focus than Starfish, and went into more detail […]
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Tor.com has gone live, all ebooks from their giveaway made available for a week
This is just a really short post to point out the blog entry on the now-live Tor.com that has a collection of links to all the free ebooks they released and all the desktop wallpapers. I think they are only leaving those links live for a week, so you should check it out soon. It […]
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Things I never expected to actually say:
Maybe he broke my wookie? I broke my wookie! So actually I broke my wookie. He was in my bag, which is apparently a wookie-hostile environment, and when I pulled him out today he was broken. I never expected to say I broke my wookie! but it was the first that that popped into my […]