The Nova Convention

this is from Boing Boing: "The occasion of this reading was the Nova Convention in 1978, three days and nights of readings, panel discussions, film screenings, and performances that, The New York Times wrote at the time, “sought to grapple with some of the implications of the writing” of Burroughs. In addition to Burroughs and Zappa, the convention featured such notable countercultural names as Terry Southern, Patti Smith, Philip Glass, Brion Gysin, John Cage, Timothy Leary, and Robert Anton Wilson. A good bit of the happening (including the audio above) was recorded for posterity and released as a double-LP by Giorno Poetry Systems."

currently reading

Postsingular

by

Rudy Rucker

tribute

Today would be Douglas Adams 61st birthday. Coincidentally I received my copy of Shada (the book) in the mail. Written by Gareth Roberts, it's the novelization of the only lost episode of a Doctor Who series during the Tom Baker era. An episode written by Douglas Adams and partially filmed but never finished, due to a strike at the BBC. Originally $26.95 (hardback), I ordered mine used from Amazon for around $5. The DVD is now available for about 30 bucks. It's on my wishlist.

Freakonomy

Freakonomics

by

Steven D. Levitt

and

Stephen J. Dubner

options winner

Shadow of the Hegemon

by

Orson Scott Card

Congratulations Ravens!

 

Springfield Elementary Library

options 5

Super Bowl time again. Next book I read is decided by the outcome of the game. This year San Francisco 49ers = Philip K. Dick - Now Wait For Last Year, and Baltimore Ravens = Orson Scott Card - Shadow of the Hegemon. It's a win-win for me. Either way I'm reading some good science fiction.

pop culture

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

by

Chuck Klosterman

A Big Hand for the Doctor

Top 3

This year's "best book I read this year" award goes to Slam by Lewis Shiner. Second place goes to Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card. 3rd place: Ringworld by Larry Niven.

Foundation

Foundation

by

Isaac Asimov 

2012

Books I read this year.

1. You Are Here - Katherine Harmon
2. The Simulacra - Philip K. Dick
3. Motherless Brooklyn - Jonathan Lethem
4. Crompton Divided - Robert Sheckley
5. Be More Chill - Ned Vizzini
6. How to Architect - Doug Patt
7. The Boxes - William Sleator
8. Morlock Night - K.W. Jeter
9. Tik-Tok - John Sladek
10. Crash - J.G. Ballard
11. The Iron Dream - Norman Spinrad
12. Never the Twain - Kirk Mitchell
13. I Sing the Body Electric - Ray Bradbury
14. Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card
15. Schismatrix - Bruce Sterling
16. Gather Darkness! - Fritz Leiber
17. Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks - Terrance Dicks
18. Slam - Lewis Shiner
19. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
20. The Stainless Steel Rat Returns - Harry Harrison
21. Ringworld - Larry Niven
22. Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk - David Sedaris
23. True Names - Vernor Vinge

reading out loud

one minute

True Names

True Names

by

 Vernor Vinge