Links for 12-10-2007
Advice for neophyte genre novelists, Elizabeth Moon’s guide to punctuation, regulating geoengineering …
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1 – Jesu: Lifeline: Pitchfork Record Review
This is how record reviewing should be done. Excellent writing about an excellent band.
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2 – Advice for first-time sff novelists ?
“The two short answers, which are not as contradictory as they may seem: If you can quit, do. Never give up. But who ever said I wrote something short?” Kate Elliot shares the wisdom.
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3 – Huge List of 147 Freelance Job Boards / Sites
Does precisely what it says on the tin. Ignore the apparently borked site theme.
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4 – Using Spreadsheets to Make Boring Tasks Less Repetitive
Crafty. Never thought of doing that.
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5 – Global Climate Engineering: Who Controls the Thermostat?
“… with climate-change threats looming, companies and countries may decide that the risks are worth taking. And there’s nothing to stop them, or even to make sure they do it carefully.” Freelance geoengineering? Could get real messy.
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6 – US military backs space-based solar power plan
“A report released yesterday [...] recommends that the US government sponsor projects to demonstrate solar-power-generating satellites and provide financial incentives for further private development of the technology.”
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7 – The Semi-colon
Part two of Elizabeth Moon’s guide to punctuation …
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8 – The Comma
Part three of Elizabeth Moon’s guide to punctuation …
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9 – The Top 5 Powerhouse Marketing Secrets For Freelancers
“Like it or not, though, if you want to succeed, you need to spend as much time working on your career as you do working in your career. Maybe more.”
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10 – Five Reasons to Embrace the Humble Keyword Article Gig
“Plenty of writers turn up their noses at these gigs, but there are a lot of reasons why you should embrace them. Here are just a few …”
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11 – Short shelflife for booksellers, industry figures claim
“Almost a quarter of the 1,324 industry professionals who took part in the survey predicted that the high street bookseller would no longer exist in 2057, while only 11% thought that the printed book would be obsolete …”
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12 – Strange Molecule Found in Venus’s Atmosphere
“The differently-weighted oxygen atoms let the isotope absorb more energy than normal carbon dioxide molecules, which could mean that it contributes more to the greenhouse effect on stifling-hot Venus …”
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October 12th, 2007 at 10:36 am
I think its worth celebrating that fact that a writer of SF books has just been awarded the Nobel prize for literature. It may not be a well know fact that Doris Lessing has written (at least) five SF books – I’m referring to the Canopus in Argos: Archives Series (1979-1983). Anyway, well done Doris.