GABBLER RECOMMENDS: Northern Cree’s “Facebook Drama”

This song just randomly popped into my head today. Wanted to share.

[“BLA and GB Gabbler” (really just a pen name – singular) are the Editor and Narrator behind THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads, and Vulcan’s shit list.]

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Janus / January Roundup: a summary of our annotations:

Janus has two heads on his coin, brah.

Yes, it’s a little late getting here. But here are those two-faced highlights: 

As usual, Gabbler recommend a lot.  of.  stuff. (And you can always find MORE stuff s/he recommends by searching our categories in the sidebar —–> ).

We unveiled our latest GIF for THE AUTOMATION.

[I, the Author, posted an illustration on what it’s like having your book carry the baggage of two pen names, even though it’s written by only one person.]

An exclusive excerpt from THE AUTOMATION was recently featured on another blog. And we posted about it.

And there’s also the 2014 roundup that will fill in any blanks up to this point. I mean, it’s either that or you keep on scrollin’.

[“BLA and GB Gabbler” (really just a pen name – singular) are the Editor and Narrator behind THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads, and Vulcan’s shit list.]

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The Just City by Jo Walton

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One day, in a moment of philosophical puckishness, the time-travelling goddess Pallas Athene decides to put Plato to the test and create the Just City. She locates the City on a Mediterranean island and populates it with over ten thousand children and a few hundred adult from all eras of history . . . along with some handy robots from the far human future.

Meanwhile, Apollo – stunned by the realization that there are things that human beings understand better than he does – has decided to become a mortal child, head to Athene’s City and see what all the fuss is about.

Then Socrates arrives, and starts asking troublesome questions.

What happens next is a tale only the brilliant Jo Walton could tell.

This review will contain SPOILERS
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I am a Classicist (well, ancient historian) by academic training, so when Tor said they were bringing out a book…

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“We’re not so different from convicts on the run…”

[“BLA and GB Gabbler” (really just a pen name – singular) are the Editor and Narrator behind THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads, and Vulcan’s shit list.]

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GABBLER RECOMMENDS: PG on The Shatzkin Files’ “No, the Big Five are not a cartel and it really ignores reality to label them as one.”

Passive Guy on Shatzkin’s article:

“Everybody who believes that 80% of the authors publishing with Big Publishing are not expected to earn out their advances, please raise your hands.

And the price-fixing that the Price-fix Six engaged in with Amazon is the very definition of cartel behavior.”

Read the post on The Passive Voice.

[“BLA and GB Gabbler” (really just a pen name – singular) are the Editor and Narrator behind THE AUTOMATION, vol. 1 of the Circo del Herrero series. They are on facebook, twitter, tumblr, goodreads, and Vulcan’s shit list.]

all yellow B&N | Amazon | Etc.