- Your complete linkguide to the great e-book piracy controversy of January ’11.
- Harlan Ellison has been awarded the 2011 Eaton Award for Lifetime Achievement in Science Fiction. As a tribute, eI publishes a special Harlan Ellison tribute issue.
- Missed it: Adam Roberts dissects the Booker prize.
- Atlanta Nights has been optioned for a movie. That Atlanta Nights.
- Damien G. Walter thinks Britain needs a national library service; in comments, Martin Lewis disagrees
- Gav Reads has its first review up: City of Ruin by Mark Charan Newton. Also, Gav explains why he returned to blogging after stopping his first project, NextRead and why he doesn’t just restart that.
- Not science fiction — I think: “the Good Detective”, a short story by M. John Harrison.
Martin
February 13, 2011 at 5:58 pmDamien G. Walter thinks Britain needs a national library service; in comments, Martin Lewis disagrees
I wouldn’t say I disagree, a national library service would be very nice. It just strikes me as the purest wishful thinking in a climate where the Government is ideologically opposed to such a service and doesn’t have the money any way. It irks me to see it put forward as a solution.