The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Is Looking For A Librarian

Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

Jackson Pearce

Book Geek Quote #757

(via j-k-reading)

Falling in Love with Hominids

Nalo Hopkinson (Brown Girl in the Ring, Skin Folk) has been widely hailed as a highly significant voice in Caribbean and American fiction...

I have read this and now I have to go find more by Nalo! 

350 Million years in different layers in one picture 😮😍 #Geology #GeologyPage

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weekend plans 📚 (📷: @mywhisperedcolors)

Library demonstration at the British Library. Today at Midday.

"A life lived in a simulation is still a life." Emily St John Mandel, Sea of Tranquillity

Ditmars, Oz SF awards

The Ditmar Award is Australia's oldest and best-known science fiction, fantasy and horror award. The 2020 nominations and results (listed in boldface) were announced yesterday: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditmar_Award_results#2020:_Swancon_2020,_Perth

It’s still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

Neil Gaiman (via ireadpastmybedtime)

Poison and Light

Renowned artist Grania, famed as a painter of light, arrives in a sleek space ship from Lost Earth, ready to embrace New Ceres and its Ne...

I have read this, SF crossed with fantasy, modern space faring versus 18th century traditionalism, power mad versus a resistance fighter. Recommended! (Available through Smashwords so far)