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John Dupuis is the Head of the Steacie Science & Engineering Library, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. You can reach him at jdupuis at yorku dot ca
Category: friday fun
Ok, so none of these realizations has actually ruined science fiction for me, but they are pretty funny nevertheless. 4 Realizations That Will Ruin Science Fiction for You #4. Sci-fi Needs a Straight Man Like a Laurel and Hardy Routine...
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Category: friday fun
Sure, John Scalzi doesn't need any link love from me. On the other hand, sometimes he just hits one right out of the park. Apparently the other day he stumbled upon a Lord of the Rings trilogy showing on TV....
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Category: friday fun
The science fiction news site blastr has a very entertaining series going for the month of October, 31 Days of Halloween. As you would imagine, every day this month they are featuring a post about Halloween. And fortunately the topics...
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Category: ebooks
Inspired by John Scalzi, I thought I'd poll all my readers out there and see what you are reading this weekend. Books, magazines, blogs, whatever. I'm reading Ross Macdonald's Meet Me at the Morgue for fiction, Gotham Central Book 1:...
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Category: book review
My 2011 summer reading was pretty meagre this year. For various reasons too boring to go into here, there wasn't much actually much vacation for me this summer. I think I'll probably have a better December/Christmas reading list than summer....
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Category: friday fun
All week I've been planning to feature Tor.com's Noir Week series here today. Somehow it's fitting that my slightly dark mood right now is matched by the subject matter of the Friday Fun. From the introductory post: Welcome to Noir...
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Category: friday fun
The world of fantasy genre fiction is finally happy this week. An incredibly long-awaited event has finally taken place. George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons, fifth book in the epic A Song of Ice and Fire series has finally...
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Category: book review
I have a whole pile of science-y book reviews on two of my older blogs, here and here. Both of those blogs have now been largely superseded by or merged into this one. So I'm going to be slowly moving...
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Category: friday fun
On Tor.com over the last couple of years, Kate Nepveu has been taking us through a chapter-by-chapter re-read of The Lord of the Rings. In each post she would give a brief summary of the action as well as some...
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Category: best science books 2010
Although it is perilously close to way too late, but you do have time to rush down to an actual, honest-to-goodness bookstore (or perhaps get an ebook from an estore) and maybe pick up one of these titanic suggestions from...
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denialism blog 02.14.2012
respectful insolence 02.14.2012
uncertain principles 02.13.2012
confessions of a science librarian 02.13.2012
starts with a bang! 02.13.2012
