September 19, 2007

wfzimmerman’s review: “A really cool book. Dr. Seuss’s drawings look the same when he is drawing Hitler as when he is drawing Horton or the Cat in the Hat. It’s also gratifying that Seuss was so right so early about the Fascist threat…”
New Press (1999), Hardcover, 272 pages
tags: world War II, political cartoons, Seuss

wfzimmerman’s review: “A beautiful book. I love the TOC which is laid out like a subway map.

Unfortunately, at first glance, one problem is that transit maps of the world tend to be a lot like one another…”
Penguin (Non-Classics) (2007), Paperback, 144 pages
tags: subway, transit, maps, geography

wfzimmerman’s review: “I received this book accidentally (I normally avoid anything by Strieber or about "alien possession" like the plague) but on flipping through was intrigued to notice that the book relies on a completely alternate history with five empires, the United States being the weakest. Oddly enough, the alternate history is mentioned nowhere on the dustjacket … stealth marketing!”
Tor Books (2007), Hardcover, 320 pages
tags: alternate history, goofy theories, Greysw, UFOs

Karl Schroeder’s Ventus now a free CC download - Boing Boing

Award-winning sf writer Karl Schroeder has just released his debut novel, Ventus under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial- NoDerivs license, meaning that you can download it, share it and copy it as much as you like.

Excellent. What this book in particular needs, I think, is some annotation around the pages … collaborative world-building.

Earlier this year, Nimble Books author Pepe Escobar released his GLOBALISTAN with a CC license.

wfzimmerman’s review: “A beautiful book. I love the TOC which is laid out like a subway map.

Unfortunately, at first glance, one problem is that transit maps of the world tend to be a lot like one another…”
Penguin (Non-Classics) (2007), Paperback, 144 pages
tags: subway, transit, maps, geography