Norwescon 37: Friday recap
It was our first day at Norwescon and we certainly started out early, traveling from Portland to Seattle.
Book Reviews
and News for Geeks Like Us
Book Reviews
and News for Geeks Like Us
It was our first day at Norwescon and we certainly started out early, traveling from Portland to Seattle.
Congratulations to Ben Winters for winning the 2013 Philip K. Dick award for his book Countdown City!
Someone suggested that a blog post could be created where notes could be posted from this panel, so… we did it.
Ancillary Justice vs The Mad Scientist’s Daughter It’s time for the highly-anticipated showdown between the two surviving 2013 PKD nominees! Two strong intelligences face off today, and with both books having a good working knowledge of AI, it’s a toss up how this match will go. Employing the thousands of years of military knowledge gained […]
We are very excited to be at Norwescon 37 and would love to meet some fellow book-loving geeks
After the excitement of round 1 of the PKD Smackdown, the books that survived return for the semi-finals: Round 2! Ancillary Justice versus Countdown City Using the same tactics that won the match in Round 1, Countdown City uses the momentum gained by being a sequel to try to get ahead, but this time, the strength of […]
We’ve seeded the seven 2013 Philip K Dick award nominees into a single elimination bracket based on a weighted average of the star ratings of GeekyLibrary, Amazon, and Goodreads. Let the battle of the books begin! Ancillary Justice gets a bye In this 7-book, single elimination competition our top seeded book gets a bye and […]
We won’t know the winner of the 2013 Philip K. Dick Award until Friday evening, but until then, we’ve decided to let the books duke it out in totally fictitious, but extremely fun battles to determine the winner.
Perhaps in Westeros, winter is coming, but where I am, its summer that I’ve got to worry about. I haven’t the time to watch the new season of Game of Thrones because I’m under siege by weeds. When in peril, consult a book. A review of Gardening for Geeks by Christy Wilhelmi (founder of gardenerd.com) […]
There was a lot of cool stuff happening around the internet last week, so I decided to share!
It’s just over a week until the start of Norwescon 37, which is April 17th through the 20th. It’s been confirmed that four GeekyLibrary Crew members will be attending at least one day of the con, and we’re excited to hang out with hundreds of other geeks.
With our new site and logo change, we had to order new business cards too. We’ve changed a lot since our first batch and it was time for an update. Take a peek at our new cards: We’ll be heading to Norwescon 37 soon, so if we meet up with you there, you might end […]