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Strange Horizons does the rare and dangerous twofer review of both Mainspring [ Powell's | Amazon ] and Trial of Flowers [ Powell's | Amazon ], including some compare-and-contrast

(And a big shoutout to martinlivings for pointing me to this.)

I seem to be moving into a slower, more deliberative writing process. This is very strange for me, because I've built the past seven years of my career on being very, very fast. I've come to rely on my writing speed to carry me through deadlines and tap the vein of my voice.

Now I need to be better than I have been. Working on it...slowly. Which is a damned sight harder than working on it quickly.

I'll let you know how it goes.

IMing with saycestsay this morning about the word "incarnadine", I said there must be a hundred words for red in our language.

How many different words for red can you think of? Feel free to leave them in comments.

What Would Newton Do? — Deconstruction of some Christian silliness about Isaac Newton being a Young Earth Creationist.

Chinese Tuck Into Texas Turtles — First Mars needs women. Now this?

The Programmable Robot of Ancient Greece

The robot programmer of Ancient Greece

The robot programmer of the Golden Age of Islam

The Monkey's Paw — A fable of extropianism.

Tank limousine for hire

(With a nod to danjite, chriswjohnson and some of the other usual suspects.)

My spies inform me that Mainspring [ Powell's | Amazon ] is now in at least 320 libraries (according to WorldCat).

Glenn Greenwald at salon.com on Executive Privilege.

If you still think the current wrangle over executive privilege is business as usual, this might be interesting.