Books

Author of The Road and No Country For Old Men died in his home of natural causes, publisher announces

What book is currently on your nightstand?...

What book is currently on your nightstand?...

Real late in making this thread this week - but I got busy......

I've been on a binge this year of reading some fairly good and some terribly bad thrillers and mystery books. I just finished reading "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie, which I greatly enjoyed, particularly after reading the Silent Patient, which I thought was awful....

@deep: In this article, I address the topic of content generation by artificial intelligence and its impact on the publishing market and, more broadly, on the quality of information available to readers. I present concerns about the quality and authenticity of AI-generated content in the context of disinformation and potential...

Do you know there's a #fediverse alternative to Amazon-owned #Goodreads? #BookWyrm is a social network for tracking your reading, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. You can follow and interact with users on different #BookWyrm instances and on #Mastodon. You can import from a Goodreads CSV export. You can create...

A few weeks ago, I was very surprised to receive an email that my story, “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold,” had been nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novelette. As is customary, the awards team asked if I wished to accept the nomination or withdraw it from consideration. Unfortunately, I’ve decided to

The most banned books in America are not the newest books on the shelves. That, plus this week's book censorship news.

Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of essays published in 1973 by German-born British economist E. F. Schumacher. The title "Small Is Beautiful" came from a principle espoused by Schumacher's teacher Leopold Kohr, advancing small, appropriate technologies, policies, and polities as a...

Think of this thread as a mid year review:...

If you haven't read this short story, first published on June 26, 1948 and written by Shirley Jackson , you should! It quite possibly makes June 27th the creepiest/scariest day of the year (outside on Halloween of course)...

R F Kuang, Xiran Jay Zhao and Neil Gaiman were ruled ineligible for the 2023 Hugo Awards in 2023 despite receiving enough nominations.

Science fiction can lead people to be more cautious about the potential consequences of innovations. It can help people think critically about the ethics of science. Researchers have also found that sci-fi serves as a positive influence on how people view science. Science fiction scholar Istvan Csicsery-Ronay calls this...

Revisit world conflicts of the past (that we hope not to repeat) with these great military historical novels.

Paramount has agreed to sell Simon & Schuster to private equity firm KKR for $1.6 billion in cash, after more than three years of trying to offload the book publishing powerhouse.

“Huckleberry Finn,” a book written by Mark Twain, is a famous American story. But, some schools in the U.S. don’t let students read it. Even though it is an important book, some people don’t like how it talks about race and uses bad language. It has now a censored version, too.

What book is currently on your nightstand?...

What book is currently on your nightstand?...

Perhaps the most surprising thing about prolific queer erotica author Chuck Tingle—who, talking via Zoom, wears a bubblegum pink bag over...

SFF provides a way of re-envisioning disability, challenging ableism head-on and creating new stories. Here are some to get you started....

Are there any books that you've read, and like, but when you step back and think about the book you're surprised you like it?...

An antidote to the civilizational compulsions that rob human nature of nature.

What book is currently on your nightstand? How do you like it? Would you recommend it to others?

Which book would you recommend me as my first ever book?