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Predictive Policing: The Minority Report in Real Life?
In Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi novel The Minority Report (which was later made into the blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise), Precrime officers apprehend would-be criminals before they can commit...
View ArticleNeal Stephenson’s Latest: REAMDE
It takes guts to title your blockbuster novel using an intentional misspelling. But fortunately for readers, Neal Stephenson has guts, a killer story, and — for the first time since Cryptonomicon — a...
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Text Message Novels
This literary genre has apparently been developing for a few years, but I’ve just learned about it today. In 2007, Japanese romance novel writer who goes by the name Yume-Hotaru published one of his...
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Diorama Book Carvings
We’ve seen book landscapes before, but there’s so much potential for the concept behind Kyle Kirkpatrick’s carved book dioramas. Imagine a gripping scene from your favorite novel carved into a copy of...
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Sea Butterfly
It’s hard to believe but that otherworldly creature above, photographed by Alexander Semenov, lives in our ocean rather than on the pages of a sci-fi novel. The sea angel above was found in the White...
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
On the surface, B. Traven’s 1927 novel The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a suspenseful, propulsive can’t-put-it-down adventure story about three down-and-out Americans who trek deep into the Mexican...
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To Use and Use Not
Ernest Hemingway wasn’t at all sure how to end his novel A Farewell to Arms. In fact, he wrote dozens of alternate endings that will all be included in a new edition of the 1929 novel. They have been...
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From Classics to Graphics: 6 Literary Masterpieces Turned Into Graphic Novels
Abridging classic novels for younger readers is nothing new. But in recent years, classic literature has been graphic novel-ized, making it more accessible for readers young and old while preserving...
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NaNoWriMo 2012
It’s been a while since we have posted about NaNoWriMo, so some of you might need a refresher. National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is sort of like a competition and sort of forced motivation for...
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Not Everyone Wins a Pulitzer
Are you participating in National Novel Writing Month? You’re a guaranteed winner! Grant Snider tells us about twelve lesser-known prizes that you could receive. Read the rest at the link. Link -via...
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