- Today on my bus ride home from school (Route 32 represent!), I learned that LexTran is joining transit services around the country in marking the fiftieth anniversary of Rosa Parks refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. There was a photograph of Mrs. Parks and a sign explaining what was going on taped to the foremost seat.
- At the post office, there were, as usual, books for Gwenda. I'm in the habit of discarding the packing material in the recycling bins they have there to save a little weight on the walk home, and that's how I know that we now have a copy of the recent Jeffrey Ford short novel, The Cosmology of the Wider World. Yay!
- I went out to a local bookstore yesterday and jotted down the table of contents of the book I mentioned yesterday. There are some very good stories in Beyond Singularity; here, have a look (listed in the order they're printed in the book):
- Old Hundredth by Brian W. Aldiss
- Border Guards by Greg Egan
- All Tomorrow's Parties by Paul J. McAuley
- Naturals by Gregory Benford
- Osmund Considers by Timons Esias
- Coelacanths by Robert Reed
- The Dog Said Bow-Wow by Michael Swanwick
- Barry Westphall Crashes the Singularity by James Patrick Kelly
- Flowers From Alice by Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross
- Tracker by Mary Rosenblum
- Steps Along the Way by Eric Brown
- The Millennium Party by Walter Jon Williams
My own contribution is at the end of the book, which you can order by clicking the cover over there to the left.
