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Back in Print
Archived From March 7, 2007
Followers of this web-rag know well that Universe was once a bi-weekly print column in the now-defunct LA Alternative. The intertextuality of it all -- blog, paper, and the interactions between the both -- was a lot of fun, brought readers in from all over, and smeared Web 2.0 all over the place. Sadly, the LAA went kaput ("Print is dead," they crooned forlornly from their last cover) and print-Universe was homeless.
Thankfully, the wonderful people over at Portland's Willamette Week -- an alternative newsweekly with a whopping 100,000 circulation -- have taken me under their wing, and I'm now gleefully penning Science Fiction book reviews for the second-largest newspaper in Oregon. My first piece, a review of Thomas A. Day's Grey Moon Over China went "live" today. Read it here, and let's get this hypermedia exchange going again!
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Comments (5):
Awesome! Congratulations. Hopefully they will pick up your science column eventually as well. It rules.
Posted by lucie @ March 8, 2007 7:45 AM
there is a biorhythms widget for dashboard which is pretty sweet...
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/reference/bedrockbiorhythms.html
march 10th is a low low day for me. biorhythmically speaking......
Posted by greg @ March 8, 2007 3:37 PM
What a nice review of a Black Heron Book! Too, this captures what is both great and strange about the roleplaying game sci-fi sector of a bookstore: "helves drooping with heavily thumbed paperbacks; titillating, surreal dust-jacket-depictions of pulsing nebulas and slimy extraterrestrials," which brings back memories of polyhedron dice and staying up late reading Fritz Leiber.
Posted by MattB @ March 12, 2007 5:11 PM
It's groovy to see a literate SF review in the papers. Congratulations.
Minor quibble - it's too short. I assume this is due to space limitations in the paper?
Posted by Brian @ March 7, 2007 9:26 PM