Big Smart Objects
By Gregory Benford and Larry Niven
Gregory Benford�s take:
In science fiction, a Big Dumb Object is any immense mysterious object that generates an intense sense of wonder just by being there.
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The Secret World of Hardware Revocation
By Cory Doctorow
The entertainment industry has a problem. It wants to sell you products�books, games, music, movies�that you look at on your computer, but it wants to control how you use those products after you buy them.
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The Books in the Book
By Tina Connolly
I�m one of those people who got taken in by The Princess Bride. Sure, I was a teenager when I read it. That�s no excuse for haunting used bookstores and scouring the internet for traces of the real book. You know the one.
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The Ingredients of a Hero (Not the Sandwich)
By Christopher L. Bennett
In the months since I sold Only Superhuman, I�ve been told more than once that what I set out to do in the novel�approaching the concept of superheroes from a plausible, hard-SF perspective�was a new and unexpected approach. That surprises me.
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Law School, Magic School
By Max Gladstone
In 2008, to an eager young me, fresh from two years of teaching English in rural China�used to afternoon runs past water buffalo, concrete classrooms, basketball-loving students, and swarms of attacking bees�law school looked an awful lot like magic.
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