Stocking up on ebooks
I'm on the road for nine days, starting tomorrow, and so swung by Fictionwise.com and grabbed some ebooks for the trip:
The novel (marketed as "mainstream," but clearly SF from the description) The Philosopher's Apprentice by James Morrow (whose birthday it is today -- happy birthday, Jim!)
And these nonfiction books:
Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would Be Human by Elizabeth Hess
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku
The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim Harford
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose
(How can you not love a book about books by someone whose name is "Prose"?)
All but the last of the above are new releases this week or last week at Fictionwise.com.
Also grabbed this week's free Nebula nominees: stories by Matthew Hughes and Ted Chiang.
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Posted by Rob on Monday, March 17, 2008
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Great example of nominative determinism!! (Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose)
Did you happen to be in Cobourg Ontario on March 20th? Around 11pm, we pulled up behind a car with your licence plate! I wanted to just jump out my car, but my husband wouldn't let me. *laugh*
If it happened to be you, I just wanted to let you know that I waved at the back of your car.
--Jessica Thomas
jcathomas@hotmail.com
That was indeed my car, but it wasn't me in it. It was my wife Carolyn Clink and her brother, David Clink. They're both poets, and were off to a poetry reading that Carolyn was doing in Cobourg that day.
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