Nothing like a few more links to make you grin with joy, right? This time I have quite a few really interesting ones, which isn’t to say that the ones I had put up in previous posts weren’t interesting. I’m just trying to make you more excited about these particular links.
Here goes:
- Vandonovan presents possibly one of the worst examples of purple prose ever thrust onto the public. To make it more entertaining, though, there is fanart (make sure to scroll down for the link, because it’s hilarious).
- Robert J. Sawyer has some interesting answers to questions about technology (meant for a Turkish newspaper/magazine apparently).
- Thoughts By Ted asks whether it is ethical to pirate the e-text of a book he already owns for travel convenience (so he doesn’t have to lug the dead tree book around). What do you think?
- A really awesomely detailed diagram of a sailing ship from back in the day.
- Check out the website for Iron Sky, a new alternate history movie in which Nazis fled to the moon and then came back to fulfill Hitler’s mission!
- Discovery has a story about a computer called MEXICA that actually writers fiction stories. I don’t know how good they are, but that’s pretty cool in my book!
- Here is an interesting chart called the Trilogy Meter, showing (I think) the relationship between the different parts of various famous movie trilogies based on popularity and rating. It’s simple, so don’t be overwhelmed.
- Scientists studying the human brain and its reactions to the process of reading have made some fascinating discoveries, particularly this one that suggests that we create simulations within our minds of the world presented within a story (not necessarily a fantasy story, but any story).
- Here’s an interesting post defending readers. It talks a lot about the solitary experience that is reading. I have no idea who the author is defending readers against, but so be it.
- Elizabeth Willse asks “What Makes Good Fantasy?” Well, what do you think makes good fantasy?
I’ll have more links later on. For now, this is it! Anywho!
