like if George Orwell wrote Life on Mars
Or if Monty Python wrote 1984…
George Orwell
is NBC’s Revolution a *complete* theft of S.M. Stirling’s Dies the Fire? (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
my reads: ‘Farthing’ by Jo Walton
If George Orwell and Dorothy L. Sayers collaborated on a novel, it might read like Farthing, which opens with the murder of an aristocrat at an English country house party in the late 1940s… except it’s an alternate England in which the course of World War II went rather differently.
“amusing ourselves to death”: why many won’t care about the loss of Net neutrality… but why we must
We as a society are in danger of drowing under not a flow of information but a flow of entertainment…
question of the weekend: What book are you reading right now, and what’s up next?
I’ve always got piles of books around me: books to read, books I’ve read and mean to write about at MaryAnnJohanson.com (and never seem to find the time to do so), books I feel like I should read but keep getting shifted to the bottom of the pile. I’ve also sometimes got more than one … more…
The Truman Show movie review: good god?
Is The Truman Show haunting you like it’s haunting me? Do you find yourself digging through the layers of metaphors, finding new subtleties as you go? Are you in awe over Jim Carrey’s performance like I am?
