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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Another gamification brainwave

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Pool resources to lightly monetise in-game points. Pecuniary homeopathy. A tincture of the Scotch groat in the Mario DING DING. Khan Acade...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014

It's a cold, cold, specifically-made-up-to-be-cold world

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"Every once in a while you find yourself in a lifeboat where a single stupid move can kill everyone. But a science fiction writer whos...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Gamified Personal Finance

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What is gamification? You could describe it as the extension of principles of game design, with or without the language of games themselves...
Wednesday, February 19, 2014

February: a few links

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Self-publishing vs. (or, and) traditional publishing.  Chuck Wendig plays indie publishing Bingo.  Damien G. Walter asks if self-publishing ...
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Thursday, February 13, 2014

How do you like that apple?

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Jan Pierewiet, Jan Pierewiet, Jan Pierewiet staan stil. Jan Pierewiet, Jan Pierewiet, Jan Pierewiet staan stil. Goeie môre, my vrou, hier...
Monday, February 10, 2014

Little Graeb Men

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SF seems fond of David Graeber. Hopefully it's because he's from the future. Charles Stross's book Neptune's Brood , whic...
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Note on not knowing what's up

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You again. I've been thinking a bit about how SF short stories, when they bunch up, often turn into novels. And how so many SF novels ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Review of Jonathan Strahan (ed.), Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy

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This review first appeared in Interzone #248 in September 2013. There’s something faintly paradoxical about the whole premise. Epic fa...
Monday, January 27, 2014

From "Integration"

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From a work-in-progress. Preseron Norts, Chief of Pomp and Bribes, swam into Sylvester's sensorium.「Ma'am.」   「Norts! New haircut...
Sunday, December 29, 2013

The Owl, the Pussycat and the Jetpack

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We are giving away this mini-collection of short stories ("Fred," "The Invasion," "The Butteryellow Reliquary...