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Talk at Arisia (Boston, MA, Sun Jan 20)
Pimping my own event for a moment... I'll be on a panel at the 2008 Arisia Science Fiction Convention on Sunday night the 20th at 8PM, talking about science, IP law, and creativity...

John Scalzi Can Rant
Science fiction writer John Scalzi knows how to write a rant. And what’s better, he’s on the right side of this one. See A Gut Check Moment for SFWA for a classic example of the genre...

Hal Drapers bibliothekarische Science Fiction
An einen kurzen Beitrag von 1961 im “Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy” erinnert ein neuer Artikel in Inside Higher Ed.

Women and Science Fiction:
Megan McArdle has an interesting post on how to get women interested in science fiction. Some of her suggestions seem plausible. For example, she notes that the closely related fantasy...

A Novel IS Fiction
I?ve noticed that some people talk about ?fiction novels.? A novel IS fiction.

Author of Holocaust Bestseller Admits Content Is Fiction
Misha Defonseca, the author of Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years, has admitted that the bestseller is fiction, and that she never lived with wolves in the forest to escape the Nazis, as she claimed to recall in the...

John Vermillion and Associates LLC et al.
allegedly misrepresented themselves as qualified financial advisers to sell living trusts and exploit senior citizens.

St. John Health
Agrees a $13.5 Million Settlement in Antitrust Class Action

John Hancock
$24 Million Settlement in Racial Discriminaton Class Action

Celebrity Chef
John Burton Race ordered to pay wife $7.2 million divorce settlement.

John Wirta
$2.5 million settlement for a hit and run DWI accident.