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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Peter Robins

Linklog: Blogs and blubs, robofiction, and more

You are probably up to date with most of what happened while the linklog was on holiday – I believe there were a couple of prizewinners announced? – but one interesting snippet that may have been buried under the news is the controversy about bloggers being used for book blurbs. Seems a largely positive sign of the times to me.

• Also on catch-up: the Wondermark webcomic's Electro-Plasmic Hydrocephalic Genre Fiction Generator 2000 comes up with frighteningly plausible light reading. Try the automated version, too.

• "Poems are not at war with other poems": you can like modernism and Walter de la Mare.

The books that went to war in 1914-18.

• Wait to review an obscure book for long enough and it may eventually come back into print.

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