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Very sad news indeed. My favorite author definitely. May he rest in peace.

The Pig character right? Completely agreed.

I have finished the Long Sun tetralogy and I think that the third volume might put readers stopping reading it because I actually stopped reading it last year and I've only resumed reading this year and honestly I had to reread many chapters but at the end it was impossible for me not to start...

I am not a writer but I usually use Google docs or AbiWord (on Linux). At work I am forced to go with Word whatever latest version Microsoft has released. Not a bad software at all but highly expensive. I am not a big fan of Open Office myself, too heavy ram demanding and ties with Java that can...

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It is always nice to see it offered only to for US and Canada only(n)

I believe everybody should at least try to read Gene Wolfe, not because it is mandatory or necessary, because in the event that one likes his prose it will be more than a transcendental experience or a bliss. Ok I have exaggerated somehow, but I just point that if a reader likes his prose it...

Tor books is giving Gene Wolfe's Shadow And Claw ebook for free this month. Tor.com's eBook of the Month Club

I will paraphrase Robert Fripp when he was asked about Rolling Stones and he said " In my area when I was a kid there were two types of people Beatles fans and Stones fans and I was a Beatles fan." Alan Moore is "my Beatles" and Morrison "is my stones".

Hi Pizza, you have kind of summarized my reading habits above with your comment except that I didn't read more than 40 books last year just 35 ( according to Goodreads but for a person like me who was reading 3 or 4 fiction non technical books before 2011 I think it is a tremendous improvement...

A few weeks ago I was talking to another huge fan of Babylon 5 that also happens to be my aunt and we both agreed that we would stop seeing any series on netflix should they have B5 in the catalog. In my rank it is placed 3rd after Fringe and Farscape ( X-files is for me what we call "hors...

I have just acquired Alan Moore's Supreme take which was published here in Brazil in 4 volumes: Golden Age Silver Age Bronze Age Modern Age

One of my all time favorite films, it is a deviation from other Lyne's films, which are ok, and this is brilliant.

Sword & Citadel ( Gene Wolfe ) Majestrum ( Matthew Hughes ) I have also acquired Lexicon Urthus ( Michael Andre Driussi )

I would definitely read it as it is one of my favorite sub-genres ( think of Vance's Dying Earth, Wolfe's Book of The New Sun, Silverberg's Majipoor, Vance's Planet Of Adventure, Zelazny Lord Of Light etc ).

The Hobbit was conceived as a children's book and Tolkien's prose at this book is more akin to this genre and probably more often meeting what Moorcock criticizes "as bad" in his essay, something I disagree . Still, I think - it is just my opinion :-) - that Lord Of The Rings although starts...

Jack Vance won the Hugo Award with Dragon Masters in 1963, in which the origin of the dragons is alien.

In the last months I got these from used books stores except (*) which were new: Star king/The Killing Machine/Palace of Love by Jack Vance in real good shape and great price from Brazilian used books stores, all Brazilian editions. Alastor Omnibus by Jack Vance ( this was new but I really...

If I ever come across something in classic SF that we know for sure that does not match the events since they were written like for example books that refer to the former Soviet Union still existing after the 90s or analog computers or martians I definitely ignore it and my favorite...

Netflix has made STTNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise available all at once here in Brazil. To start with I thought my Trekkie spirit had vanished but I can see now that it is stronger than never. I am trying to cope with watching Enterprise and Voyager at once still completely scared that by the...