Brief notes:
* China Mieville's "Looking for Jake" is simply brilliant. I'm generally not a huge fan of short stories--when I want escapism, I want to really escape, and that takes word count!--but the format really plays to Mieville's strengths, chief among which is mood-setting. Even that click-to-feed-the-hungry website becomes strange and sinister in his hands. Plus, it includes this, which (no offense to Cory Doctorow) is at the moment my very favorite anti-IPR story.
* David Marusek's Counting Heads is also good, though more in a "gee-whiz" way than a sucking-you-in way. Wonderfully realized vision of the future; less wonderfully plotted story.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
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