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I wish I had a long remembrance of Mr. Clarke, but I don’t. I’ve read much of his short stories, a couple novels, but, aside from 2001 and a collection of shorts (which included The Sentinel, the pre-cursor to 2001), I always found the person of Mr. Clarke more interesting than his writing. His
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Tags: Arthur C Clarke, celebrities, obits, scifi

Orson Scott Card’s webzine, Intergalatic Medicine Show, is up. Each issue costs $2.50 and Card has on the front page that he’ll publish a new story in Ender’s world every month (what’s that little tickle in the back of my mind?).
Ender’s Game is one of the best sf stories around and Card is quite [...]

Kuro5shin hosts a story called The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect, a trippy (sometimes stomach turning) theory about the future. It’s not the best thing I’ve ever read, but the vision of this future-world is fascinating. It’s written by Roger Williams.
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Stolen from Slashdot:
“How old is the oldest known technical manual? About 613 years, it seems. Written in 1391 by Geoffrey Chauncer for his ten year old son Lewis (Lowys), the manual explains in great detail but very rough spelling and grammar, the intricate workings of the Astrolabe–the predecessor to the sextant. Read Chauncer’s ‘A Treatise [...]

Just a gratuitous link since I’ve read all this stuff already, but Cory Doctorow blew me away when I first read Ownz0red on Salon. See the rest of this post for links to many of his stories.
Cory operates on the Creative Commons license (thanks to a generous publisher) and his work is freely downloadable, distributable, [...]