Quick book rec, quick book rant

Newton’s Wake, by Ken McLeod. If you like SF and you can stand written dialect at all, give this a go. ( Read more... )

Rant (not at all about Newton's Wake, but several unrelated books and stories): I'm losing my patience with protagonists who a) make major life changing decisions without consulting their nearest and dearest and then are shocked by N&D's reaction not being exactly what they'd like, and b) deliberately make copies of themselves without at least trying to cope with the fact that yes, there WILL BE TWO OF YOU, and YOU WILL NOT BE HAVING THE SAME EXPERIENCES.

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Alabama bill to ban books by gay authors or about gay characters from the schools

"I don't look at it as censorship," says State Representative Gerald Allen. "I look at it as protecting the hearts and souls and minds of our children."

I can't imagine this passing, or standing longer than it takes the case to get to court if it did pass. I suspect it won't even come to a vote. But *headdesk* anyway.

Still, this made me smile: "After criticism, he narrowed his bill to exempt the classics, although he still can't define what a classic is."

Edited to Add: It's dead already. Sanity prevails again.