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Charlie Stross – Paul Krugman Worldcon discussion online

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

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One of my favourite (and consistently inventive) science fiction authors, Charlie Stross, was in a discussion with Nobel economics laureate Paul Krugman at the weekend’s Worldcon, Anticipation in Montreal. As Cory notes on Boing Boing its a pretty good match as Charlie has often touched on possible future forms of economics in his SF (on [...]

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Hugo Awards

Monday, August 10, 2009

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Convention Reporter kept up a stream of Tweets last night (Canada time, early hours of this morning for the UK) from the weekend’s Worldcon, one of science fiction’s major global annual events, including live updates from the prestigious Hugo Awards. This year the Hugos decided to include a specific category for Best Graphic Story, the [...]

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