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I believe that in nearly every instance where science fiction has successfully 'predicted' a turn of events, it’s more true to say that it has inspired that turn of events.
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How we went from boulders to scrolls to screens. 
There are plenty of dull, insipid conversations with authors out there, but the form isn't worth writing off completely. 
Scratch any literate songwriter – Win Butler, David Bowie, PJ Harvey – and not far beneath the surface you will find a debt to TS Eliot. 
Waterstones promise to make ebooks 'dramatically better' by teaming up with Amazon, but will you be browsing the shelves with your Kindle? 
An author builds a narrative with thousands of tiny details. Even before a reader knows what the book is really about, it’s through the gradual accumulation of these crucial details that the power and meaning of the story emerges. 
New print and digital editions of Tom Phillips's extraordinary work, A Humument, mark the artist's 75th birthday. 
Accuracy is Austen's genius, argues John Mullan, and asking specific questions about her work reveals its cleverness. 
Some of them are even available to purchase, but even if the one you like best isn’t for sale, we daresay you’ll get some decorating ideas — or at least a yen to pick up your favorite novel. 
Watching 'Norman Mailer: The American,' I was struck by the similarities between Mailer and Charles Foster Kane. 
Study shows Amazon reviewers more likely to look favourably on debut authors, while professionals prefer prizewinners. 
Luddites can take comfort in the persistence of vinyl records, postcards, and photographic film. The paper book will likewise survive, but its place in the culture will change significantly. As it loses its traditional value as an efficient vessel for text, the paper book’s other qualities—from its role in literary history to its inimitable design possibilities to its potential for physical beauty—will take on more importance. The future is yet to be written, but a few possibilities for the fate of the paper book are already on display on bookshelves near you. 
No writer ever really wants to talk about censorship. Writers want to talk about creation, and censorship is anti-creation, negative energy, uncreation, the bringing into being of non-being, or, to use Tom Stoppard’s description of death, 'the absence of presence.' 
Anthony Burgess's diabolical tale of juvenile ultraviolence is 50. Five decades on, the novel holds a lofty position as one of pop culture's most influential and enduring pieces of literature |
Digital publisher Electric Literature has launched a new digital literary magazine that will publish one story a week. Recommended Reading is a free online publication, available in ePub, Kindle and through email and Tumblr. 
The stories behind modern linguistic touchstones like 'nerd,' 'cyberspace,' and more. 
Fontana Modern Masters was a highly collectible series of books - not just for their opinionated content on the likes of Marx or Proust, Mailer or McLuhan, but because of Oliver Bevan’s fabulous cover designs. 
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2011 Nebula Awards. 
He might have quit drugs but the celebrated American author hasn't given up on hedonism – breakfast is always improved with a bottle of the world's best wine. 
Noted writer Neal Stephenson has argued that contemporary science fiction is too focused on nihilism and apocalyptic scenarios. The current crop of such works, such as the Walking Dead, are compared rather unfavorably to the hopeful view of the future that was supposed to be common theme in the mid twentieth century. 
Dan Brown told the Boston Globe this week that there's another Robert Langdon book in the works. I am genuinely and unironically excited. I love his novels. They are where I go to read a movie. 
Professional critics are no more reliable than Amazon ratings, a study shows. So do we really need them? 
The bicentenaries of three great Victorian writers underline the capricious nature of literary afterlives. 
Every writer, no matter how serious, needs to let off a little steam now and then. Those oh-so-important mental health days might be filled with hobbies (from baking to beekeeping) or drinking (every writer’s default hobby), or just plain goofing around with friends. Luckily for us, some of these author’s kookiest, most candid moments have been captured on film, so we can all feel a little closer to our favorite literary heroes. 
When looking at a brush with death, it’s amazing to consider how differently subsequent events would’ve played out had a more tragic result happened. In the case of these writers, it’s amazing to think how much today’s literary canon would be missing if a matter of inches were different, or if the timing had been slightly different. |
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