What Hugo-winning books have you read?
Snagged from here, another one of those useless Internet memes.
I’ve bolded the ones that I haven’t read, because it was easier. At one point, I actually made a project of marching through these.
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Another Grand Master gone
KVIA.com in El Paso is reporting that Jack Williamson has passed away at the age of 98.
He will perhaps be best remembered for Darker Than You Think, a stunning novel of slipping into wildness (I once used it as a comparison to the work of Christopher Isherwood in a grad school seminar), and of course the classic The Humanoids… but he remained astonishingly contemporary into his very last years, writing books that seemed to come from the pen of someone a quarter of his age.
I highly recommend his Wonder’s Child: My Life in Science Fiction, an autobiography that takes you from rural farm boy to professor in an astonishing career that seems like science fiction in itself.
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WHat did I say about major media companies?
MTV Networks Brings Korean MMOGs To North America basically says that the new North American publisher for Asian megahits Kart Rider, Audition, and Maple Story is… MTV.
I’ve mentioned before that I think it’s outsiders to the game industry who are going to come in and co-opt the online game space. We’ll see whether this case in particular is a harbinger of things to come…
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Wish-fulfillment
Some games try to give you the sensation of being Spiderman.
Other games try to tell the truth about it. Heh.
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Project Horseshoe: Influences
My talk at Project Horseshoe was called “Influences.” And here it is, transcribed for your pleasure, with occasional audience interjections.