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Month: February 2004

  • Bookish

    Some neat book-related links tonight. First, Locus Online has published a 2003 recommended reading list of science fiction and fantasy novels, novellas, short stories, anthologies, etc. It looks like a good list, I noticed several items coinciding with my reading wishlist.

    Next, the big news: Cory Doctorow‘s new book, Eastern Standard Tribe, is out! And, like his previous two books, he is making the novel free to download from his website. Gotta love this. Which means, over the next couple of days, I’ll download the plain text version and convert it to the Palm Reader format for my ebooks page. Don’t worry, though—you can still buy the book if you want a paper version. I sure will.

  • Pink eye

    My daughter came home today with pink eye. Apparently it’s been going around the preschool and sure enough, she’s got it. Should make for an interesting few days as we all try to avoid catching the virus.

  • Comic Trademarks

    Here’s an interesting fact: Marvel and DC—the two biggest publishers of comic books—jointly own a trademark on the term “Super Hero” (and its variations). Huh? I picked this up from Newsarama, via Boing Boing.

    That seems to me to be just a little bit ludicrous, but it suddenly seems clear why Alan Moore’s comic books refer to their protagonists as “science heroes” and not superheroes.

    Man that’s weird.