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Liberation Is A Better Novel Than Anathem, Says Amazon [Top 10 Books Of 2008]io9 - Nov 10, 2008 The best science fiction novel of 2008 was Brian Francis Slattery's Liberation , according to Amazon.com's new top 10 list, compiled by io9 contributor Jeff VanderMeer. The story of a gang of super-criminals reuniting … Also tagged: books, jeff vandermeer, book smackdown, top 10 books of 2008 |
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A Web of Footnotes -- How We Will Read Books in the Future [Futurism]io9 - Oct 25, 2008 The technological development that's going to change the way we read forever isn't ebooks — it's footnotes. For the past few months, if you really wanted to understand DC Comics' big crossover series Final Crisis, you … Also tagged: technology, reading, books, web, feature, top, futurism, glossaries, douglas wolk, the rest is noise, anathem, final crisis |
io9 - Oct 13, 2008
Two major newspapers turned their eye to science fiction books over the weekend: The Washington Post featured lit-blogger Edward Champion's roundup of recent books, including Gene Wolfe's An Evil Guest, Nancy Kress' …
io9 - Sep 29, 2008
It's never great to watch a beloved science fiction hero die — but sometimes a memorable heroic death can help turn a science fiction story into a real epic. And some science fiction characters are unforgettable and …
Also tagged: doctor who, star trek, star wars, top, sunshine, cowboy bebop, terminator, terminator 2, mission to mars, h g wells, anathem, vernor vinge, blake s 7, science fiction deaths, space above and beyond
io9 - Sep 9, 2008
Today Neal Stephenson's long-awaited new novel Anathem hits the bookstores. We've already told you that this tale of science monks on another planet is cool, action-packed, and thought-provoking — probably one of the …
io9 - Sep 7, 2008
Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, is one of the most techno-savvy scifi authors of his generation, and yet his new novel Anathem is strongly critical of mobile phones. Anathem, which hits …
Also tagged: mobiles, technology, books, interview, top, gizmodo, technocritique
io9 - Sep 4, 2008
Neal Stephenson's new novel Anathem comes out next week, and there's something very timely about his tale of aliens on a parallel Earth whose inhabitants are locked into an occasionally-catastrophic conflict between …
io9 - Sep 4, 2008
Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, has a new novel coming out next week called Anathem. He'll be chatting for an hour on "The Beyond," a web radio show. You can listen or call in with your …
io9 - Aug 27, 2008
We've got an exclusive clip of Neal Stephenson doing what he does best: Seriously geeking out about obscure early-twentieth century metaphysics. Specifically, he admits that he has a little fetish for Edmund Husserl, a …
Also tagged: books, philosophy, exclusive, phenomenology, anathem, edmund husserl
io9 - Aug 20, 2008
Neal Stephenson's new novel Anathem hits bookstores early next month, and stoking the fires of our anticipation is a meaty article about Stephenson in this month's Wired magazine. Writer Steven "Hackers" Levy profiles …
Also tagged: books, steven levy, anathem