Miscellany Link Anthology

[keilexandra]

A funny comic about writers, readers, and compulsory reading.

yhlee discusses her livelongnmarry music commission for swan_tower, a.k.a. Marie Brennan. Follow through for a link to download the mp3.

An online copyright slider.

The Guardian's Top 10 Asian Crime Novels, a significant number of which are written by POC. Also the top 10 SF novels written by women.

Via magicnoire, an addictive game called Word Vine.

Via telophase, a small-press release of Sherwood Smith's bildungsroman prequel to Crown/Court Duel, A Stranger to Command. I probably can't afford to buy it, but you should.

Via yhlee, Charles Coleman Finlay's short and original short story "Footnotes."

For those who followed the Helix debacle, the alternative archive Transcriptase will allow you to enjoy selected stories without contributing to Helix's pageviews.


And probably much more to come, sporadically, as I work through two weeks of Internet-reading backlog.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I know I just won't shut up about this, but Colin Cotterill's mysteries are Top Asian Crime Novels in my reckoning. Set in Laos just after the Communist revolution, magical realist murder mystery, wonderful wonderful wonderful.

(I have not yet started collaring strangers on the street to try to make them read these books. But I did talk my grocery bagger into the first one before I stopped being able to drive to get groceries for myself.)

[keilexandra]

Do you have a particular title rec to start with? I'm not in a mystery mood at the moment and I have a huge backlog to work through, but it's nice to accumulate multi-genre recs.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The Coroner's Lunch is the first one.

[sarahbrand.livejournal.com]

What's awesome is playing Word Vine and listening to yhlee's song at the same time.

Thanks for the links. The comments to the first one are quite interesting (now I know where to find online help if I ever decide to try Gravity's Rainbow, haha) ... sometimes it's frustrating to know that there is so much to read and I will never, ever get through it, but right now it just makes me happy.