William Gibson has a pretty good track record predicting the future. After all, this is the man who coined the word cyberspace and wrote about an all-encompassing global computer network years before it reached its tentacles into your home and pocket. So it's heartening to hear that he's not as doom-and-gloom about the future of … Continue reading Looking Ahead
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Talking Monkeys
Sara Gruen was on MPR's Midmorning show today, discussing her new novel Ape House. Gruen spent time at Des Moines' Great Ape Trust, working with their bonobos. The Trust has taught the little monkeys to speak, using pictorial cards. Gruen incorporated talking apes into her new novel, which the New York Times called "an incisive … Continue reading Talking Monkeys
Lisbeth, We Hardly Know Ye
In July, I wrote about the French covers of Steig Larsson's Millennium trilogy. Now I see that The Caustic Cover Critic has posted images of Spanish-language versions of the same covers. Where the French designer showed Lisbeth Salander as Wednesday Adams, the diseñadores of these editions pictured her as, of all things, a doll. See … Continue reading Lisbeth, We Hardly Know Ye
Musings from Magers and Quinn 