Links for 17-12-2007
Book review back-log; portfolios 101; UK to get its own Creationist theme park …
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1 – Build a Killer Online Portfolio in 9 Easy Steps
“Building your portfolio is easy. The hard part is making it good. A killer portfolio does more than just showcase your work. It transforms visitors into clients. Best of all, it’s an automatic work generator.”
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2 – The SF Site Featured Review: Human Is? – A Philip K Dick Reader
“In other words, to read Dick with no preconceptions would take a set of preconditions that are alarmingly like the sort of scenarios he peppered his plots with. I’m sorry if that seems a little circuitous — that’s just the way Dick’s work makes you thin
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3 – The SF Site Featured Review: Starship: Pirate by Mike Resnick
“Resnick avoids the need for explication and scene-setting by encapsulating everything in the reactions of his characters —- if they’re used to it, so then is the reader expected to be. To put it another way, this is “show, don’t tell” on steroids.”
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4 – The SF Site Featured Review: The Witling by Vernor Vinge
“Where The Witling differs from some of its contemporaries is in the scientific rigour with which Vinge treats the central trope of the book [...] the consequences and imperatives that stem from it have been thoroughly thought through.”
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5 – The SF Site Featured Review: Land of the Headless by Adam Roberts
“Land Of The Headless continues Roberts’ tradition of writing challenging novels that engage deeply with science fictional themes and genuine human drama to an equal degree.”
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6 – Creationists plan British theme park
“Evolution has falsely become the foundation of our society and we need the television studio to advocate Genesis across this land in order to remove this falsehood …” Bloody hell.
