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Some links for your reading pleasure

Written on: May 22nd, 2009 by: in Reviews

Check out this fascinating story from today’s Washington Post. At this week’s Homeland Security Science and Technology Conference, sci-fi writer Greg Bear has been leading workshops and sessions bringing together science fiction writers such as Catherine Asaro with public safety and defense industry contractors to brainstorm technology development strategies. Science fiction writers have lived in the future ever since Jules Verne, and as the article suggests, the space race might have been radically different without the writings of Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein.

Also, for the twitterers amongst you, here is a list of major U.S. publishers’ twitter feeds. If you have a twitter account, you can follow these feeds for new book announcements, events and signing schedules, and juicy publisher gossip.