Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to many magazines, websites and newspapers. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, […]
Cornelia Funke is a German-born author and illustrator best known for her novels Dragon Rider, The Thief Lord, and her immensely popular Inkheart trilogy. Cornelia is an internationally best selling and award winning author, and her novel Dragon Rider spent 78 weeks on the top of the New York Times bestseller list. She’s also been […]
Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author. He is best known for his 1974 novel The Forever War. That novel, and other of his works including The Hemingway Hoax (1991) and Forever Peace (1997), have won major science fiction awards including the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. For his […]
The Bixby Creek Bridge Bixby Creek is a gash in the Palisades that bleeds fresh water into the Pacific. -John Charles Frémont Its opened spandrels seem supportive to a dream Not of survival As one might think But of arrival Across that vast chink In the Californian Palisades.