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   Why Paolo Bacigalupi feels it's time for sci-fi to change (Sci Fi Wire) image

  

Sci-fi is long overdue for a change. At least according to Paolo Bacigalupi, whose first novel, The Windup Girl , addresses a different sort of change—climate change—with vigorous candor. It’s not that Bacigalupi dislikes the old-style expansive sci-fi of space exploration, but he feels a shift in subject matter is necessary. “I think the traditional tropes of science fiction are great. The old …

Source:Why Paolo Bacigalupi feels it's time for sci-fi to change (Sci Fi Wire)

  

If you want to know what I think about Iain Banks, it’s this: he’s one of the greatest science fiction novelists working today.

Source:An Interview with Science Fiction Novelist Iain Banks (Time Magazine)

Euro vs. Dollar

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Wed Sep. 30, 2009

  

In Elliott, analysts will sometimes refer to ‘the look’ of a pattern.  Look at the rectangled area on the chart.  Doesn’t it ‘look’ like one more rally would complete 5 waves (and a larger 3rd)?  Notice how the action before is a choppy mess.  It is clearly corrective, perhaps a triangle.  We know that triangles precede terminal moves but this move may not be over yet.  v of 3 and then 4 and 5 would complete the pattern if this count is correct, which could take a few weeks.  There is so much bigger picture bearish evidence right now (COT and last week’s candle for example), that I am truly scared to go long but this short term pattern at least enables those that do go long to control risk and gun for a potentially significant profit.  I am off to see Springstein (Boss!!) at Giants Stadium.

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Ralph Nader calls his just-published first novel, Only the Super Rich Can Save Us , “my answer to Ayn Rand,” whose Atlas Shrugged became a laissez-faire capitalist bible during the late 1950s.

Source:Oak Park Public Library: Nader's novel poses 'political science fiction' (Oak Park Leaves)

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