Bad Characterization in The Scifi of Big Ideas – Who Gives A Crap, Really?
Charles Stross has turned out to be one of my favorite scifi writers from the last few years, and his rant about the scifi of big ideas made me like the dude even more. This is a thing that has started to annoy me more and more lately – whinging about bad characters in books, where the main character is obviously The Idea or the setting.
Getting Published: “Out of Place, Out of Time: An Odd Collection of Short Stories”
Right now I’m holding in my hands something that could be called the first actual book of fiction with my name on the cover. This is not a bad way to start a new year.
The Dismal State of e-Book Editing – Case: Terry Pratchett’s “Snuff”
Ever since I bought the Kindle a year ago, I’ve been a big fan of e-books and this autumn I’ve spent quite some time learning to make them. One thing has started to annoy me about many commercial ebooks: far too many of them are littered with all kinds of encoding errors: extra line breaks, missing spaces between words, indents turning into empty lines, etc. It seems like this problem has been getting worse, not better, during this last year, and now I ran into the total nadir of this: the Kindle-edition of “Snuff” by Terry Pratchett.
A nice introduction to the book…
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