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The Annual World's Best SF 1977

The Annual World's Best SF 1977

Friend of the blog and Twitter user @KKalvaitis has a blog post up with a lengthy review of Donald A. Wollheim's 1977 anthology The 1977 Annual World's Best SF. I'm keenly interested in this anthology, because one of the big questions I've

WBH Weekly Digest 2024-01-06: The Color of the Gods

WBH Weekly Digest 2024-01-06: The Color of the Gods

Gemini Destroyer Book ReviewThis is the end. Gemini Outsider was an end. This is the end. The end of the Gemini Man story, the ultimate culmination of everything that happens. Which makes it interesting that the Gemini Man hardly appears in it. We will instead follow a petty criminal, a

How much is a Pulitzer Prize worth?

How much is a Pulitzer Prize worth?

In my on-going series that looks into the numbers of the book market, here are some sales numbers on Pulitzer Prize winning books from Mal Warwick: * “The 2014 general nonfiction winner, Tom’s River by Dan Fagin, went from 10 copies [before the prize announcement] to 162 copies sold (6,

2022 Book Market

I stumbled on some great data on the book market for 2022 on Twitter, so I’m copying it here as it is so important to build up your quantitative sense with reference to handy facts. It is also good to have a reality check on how bestsellers can make

Linkfest 2023-01-28: The Dumb Ox

Today is the feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas, my patron saint. You can pick up Ed Feser’s excellent introduction to Aquinas for only $0.99 on Amazon today. Twitter anon Vulpine Outlaw looks at how the New Atheism movement was in part a response to 9/11, and

Linkfest 2022-12-02: USS Iowa

This is how war veterans find common ground. Tragedy: An Introduction Just as automatically as we associate comedy with laughter, we associate tragedy with death. And just as was the case with the relationship between laughter and comedy, a Renaissance tragedy-- though it will always include at least one death--is

Linkfest 2022-10-28: The World Island

I spent many happy hours playing TF2. The Catholic World Report: Anatomist of the Catholic collapse in France and beyond I’d love to see the data from this French sociologist’s study on Mass attendance and other measurables in the wake of Vatican II. First Things: The Morality of