Abraham Valdelomar, ¿se anticipó a Stephen King?

Para los peruanos, Abraham Valdelomar es una gran promesa literaria truncada. Nacido en 1888, se convirtió en uno de los más importantes cuentistas del país, innovando el género de tal manera que muchos de sus cuentos se han convertido en clásicos indiscutibles de la literatura peruana, como pueden serlo El caballero Carmelo, El hipocampo de oro y otros. Falleció en 1919.

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From Locks to Freedom

The problem with the internet is that anyone can write something down, publish it, and present it as fact when it’s not. I have ten titles on Amazon, and another one coming out later this week. Every single one, the default is no DRM, although there is a check-box I can click if I decided I wanted it on my work. Which I don’t. Unlike Big Music and Big Publishing, I don’t think all people are thieves. I also know better than to think that DRM is anything but a challenge to hacker twits who break stuff just for jollies.

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Noticias Literatura 8-10

Avance del nuevo título de “Espiral Ciencia-Ficción” “Espiral CF” anuncia que ya tiene el próximo libro en la imprenta. Estará compuesto por las novelas “Zaibatsu” de Diana P. Morales y “La edad del vuelo” de Alberto Moreno […]

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Is This the Future of Web Comments?

Why did Popular Science shut down reader comments? Reader interaction through comments is vital to the longevity of internet blogging. Yet, there is a growing concern over the impact these comments might have on the legitimacy of the articles being posted.

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Kinetic Stories

Reading is a kinetic exercise, not just sitting in a chair scanning words. Writing is the way we turn the potential energy of ideas into that kinetic energy for the reader.

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Fantasy Cartography, Part 2

Fantasy cartography is like playing SimCity; first you create and then you take an almost gleeful joy in the destruction before rebuilding from the ashes.

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Writing on Paper

When you write, capturing the urgency of the moment, your own voice and style, happens in the first contact of pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and with each re-working of the text,

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Top Post de Agosto

En todo caso más vale tarde que nunca, aquí algunos de los más interesantes artículos que fueron populares en las últimas semanas.

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Noticias Literatura

La web “Ficción Científica” cumple un año y , para celebrarlo, ha editado un ebook gratuito, titulado “Ellos son el futuro”

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The Geek Test: What’s Your Score?

I believe people of all types should be able to join in geek events and have fun whether they’re sufficiently geek credentialed or not, but I wondered how one might one go about quantitatively evaluating “geekiness”

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