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I went to Stratford-on-Avon last week and saw David Tennant playing the lead role in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "Hamlet" (in which Patrick Stewart also appears). David was equally "bug-eyed" in that - a wonderful performance. |
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I'm afraid this is something you're going to fight in vain against, Jon . Like it or not, the current DW is universally referred to as "Season X", starting with the revival of the show in 2005. It's generally obvious whether one is referring to the new or the old series.
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Fine, but don't go to Amazon and look for a "Season 30 Box Set" - you won't find one .
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I recently read Connie Willis' All Seated on the Ground, and am very happy that it won. There aren't many scifi Christmas stories out there.
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While this is mostly kindle-store related, the spreadsheet is a database of all hugo, nebula, and fantasy award winners (novel category only). Sometimes its nice to sort by a favorite author or search on a book title.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24766 I have the 2008 nominations, but have not updated it with the winner yet. -d |
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I agree. Sometimes it's about the author but usually not. I've really been wanting to read Yiddish Policemen's Union. It was the first thing I flagged when Amazon introduced their new little feature to let the publisher know you want the title for the Kindle. Sadly a lot of publishers are slow to get on this bandwagon. I'm glad to have an easy way to tell them. He does have some of the McSweeney's stuff on Amazon but they're by a different publisher. YPU is "Harper Perennial". Not sure how that relates to HarperCollins who I thought was getting fairly enthusiastic about electronic publishing. Still, if we want it, we need to keep pestering. Folks could go write them or go hit that button on Amazon. Even if you don't own a Kindle, it seems to me publishers often release a title on multiple formats once they've bothered to do it at all.
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Don't always point a finger at the publisher. It's quite possible the author doesn't want eBooks.
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Chabon is pretty tech savy, and most the authors who are anti-ebook are the.. giant pop-fiction writers. I can't imagine Chabon is anti-ebook himself.
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I saw him also a couple of years ago when he was taking the lead role in the RSC's production of "Antony and Cleopatra". He was excellent in that, too. He was, of course, a Shakespearean actor for many years before becoming publically "famous" for his role in ST:TNG!
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Ahhhh, that would explain that. I wasn't considering it consciously, but Eos seems to be pretty gung-ho about e-books, which I think is where I got the idea that publishers in general might active in producing e-book editions of their SF works. The whole semi-autonomous-imprint thing makes it all make sense.
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