OK, I bought a physical copy of the book via this new-fangled "Internet", and it arrived in today's mail.
If I didn't already know, I don't think I'd notice that it's a POD copy, and it does match the previous volumes well enough.
All things considered, I'd rather have this book than not have it: but I worry about this as a business model.
I still think about the archetypal "12-year-old kid with a bit of spending money" who will never have a chance to run across this book in a bookstore. And so I worry about about the future of SF, and SF publishing.
Hmmm. My wife's folks are Polish. My brother-in-law's folks are Italian.
This might just work.
Well, I guess the future's here, then.
I collect "Year's Best..." anthologies in our genres, going all the way back to Bleiler & Dikty.... Needless to say, I have dutifully purchased #1 through #8 in this series.
I'm going to have to brood about this.
Found it. http://www.ny400.org/ which leads to
http://www.nyharborparks.org/visit/tour-new-amsterdam.html
Ah, here we are:
"Walking Tour -
The New Amsterdam Trail:
Commemorate the 400th anniversary of explorer Henry Hudson's voyage for the Dutch to New York and the future settlement of New Amsterdam, with this new 90-minute audio walking tour of important sites in 17th-century Lower Manhattan."
The tour with a National Park ranger was $10; but coming up, there's a
"Special 1-day event on 9/13 at 9:30am. Price: $35. Tour & exhibit with Russell Shorto, bestselling author of The Island at the Center of the World"
I seem to recall that as part of the anniversary celebrations, Russell Shorto will be leading a walking tour of old New Amsterdam.
(I mean "albatross at #122"; it's past my bedtime.)
albatross @#116: Of course, the real reason they're against her is because she's Democrat and a liberal...
Well, "Democrat", sure, but from where I stand, she doesn't even look all that "liberal". To me, she looks to be about where Souter is.
What she is, is not an obviously-batshit-insane wingnut.
It's probably relevant here that Bay Buchanan's brother Pat also has a history of street-fighting.
(But in Pat's case, without suffering much in the way of consequences: which of course is one of the privileges of wealth.)
I got an eight, but I blame my tools. ; )
(Cheap laptop....)
Which is good to know, that my color perception is good but not perfect. In my day job, I'm mostly on the 'text' side of things, but I'm occasionally required to visit our printers and do on-press approvals for some of our larger print runs.
TNH at #31: (W)as that before or after the area was a red light district?
I'd sort of assume "during". The city's red light district spent a century or so following the "White Light" district as it shifted uptown; given how fashionable Madison Square was at the time (what with White's new Madison Square Garden, and Delmonico's restaurant just down the block, etc.), I'd assume that the red light district was nearby. I'd don't know specifically about 24th Street in 1900-1905, though.
(Where's Luc Sante when you need him?)
It all ties together somehow: the Flatiron District was Stanford White's old stomping ground.
In fact, his townhouse (the one with the infamous Red Velvet Swing) was right around the corner from Tor at 22 W. 24th Street - until it fell down a year or two ago.
If ever there was midtown address that needed a historical marker....
My favorite glacial erratic is "Balance Rock" in Pittsfield, Mass.
A mere 20' x 15' x 10', and a claimed 165 tons; but, on the other hand, it's mostly suspended off the ground.
Wesley @ 30... I haven't often seen a writer explicitly and unilaterally connect his own fictional universe with one created by another contemporary writer.
Obligatory SF reference: In The Dark Dimension, A. Bertram Chandler's Commodore Grimes has an adventure that bumps him up against Poul Anderson's Dominic Flandry.
I seem to recall that this was done with full permission.
Twill at #322:
1) ...There was no "election" in progress, the election was weeks earlier....
No, it's not actually an "election" until the votes are counted. If the votes - ALL the votes - are not counted, you have failed Democracy 101.
2) When was the last time that large quantities of non-black American people went out and burned their town or city?
After any major sporting event. Ask Boston about the World Series riot, ask Pittsburgh about the Superbowl riot, ask Syracuse most any season.
John Prebble's The Darien Disaster is quite readable.
Even more unlikely than the Scotland/Panama connection is the story of Latvia and their Caribbean colony.
Besides the honor, there's the little matter that the Prize also includes a cool $1.4 million.
So it's sort of ironic that Krugman has won at a time when there's scarcely a bank left standing where he can open a safe account.
I hope he's got a really big mattress.
This is classic Rove: accuse your opponent of doing something that you yourself have done.
ONE of the candidates for president really WAS actively involved in an ongoing criminal conspiracy that involved terror-bombing innocent civilian populations.
It wasn't Obama.
Bruce Arthur at #24: Sarah Palin's cross-country plane trip doesn't make sense.
This was over on MetaFilter:
Sarah Palin's Pregnancy Decision Map
And yes, there are plenty of other reasons to question her judgment, but Palin's status as "Mother of Five!" was the just about the first of her "qualifications" that they put forward for her.
And the story of her late-in-life pregnancy - as she herself tells it - just strikes me as, you know, batshit insane.
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