The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles by Jon Bois

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Tim Tebow CFL Chronicles by Jon Bois

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[ross-smith.livejournal.com]

A shoe fitting X-ray machine plays an important role in the plot of Lawrence Block's The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza (1980).

[owlmirror36.livejournal.com]

Amusing typo misreading: I thought "experienced only on the we" meant "experienced only on the Wii"; that is, that this was some sort of proprietary interactive exercise video game, for quite an embarrassing few seconds, before realizing that no, it was "on the we[b]".

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

I wonder why science fiction hasn't used the multimedia form more? (This is science fiction, too, incidentally.) Peter Watts and Greg Egan do, a little, in conjunction with their books. But I think it could be done more, say, by putting future ads on YouTube -- I just saw a computer game do this with a rather good Top Gear pastiche -- or animated planetary dynamics on a website.

I particularly liked the little musical recaps at the end of each chapter, using animated maps and the like -- I enjoy Bois' eclectic musical taste.

Finally, this is a sports story (among other things) that isn't a sausage fest, and it's written so the reader doesn't have to know very much about the sport at all, although I don't think Bois' solution is something that could be duplicated in general.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Also, David's Sling, that strange early Baen MilSF book that combined a Cold War gone hot with drone strikes and just-in-time production, didn't it have a Hypercard stack to go with?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the new ebook will have any bells and whistles? (http://www.baenebooks.com/p-2651-davids-sling.aspx)

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

I will just replay Jimmy Fallon's "TeBowie" musical number instead, which I do understand better.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Speaking of strange features of that novel, Carlos, was the Hypertext Duel Scene an early influence on your writing?

(Stiegler was one of the Project Xanadu people, and his novel suggests that in the future, disputes will be settled as adversaries fling page after page of arguments, references, and other text onto giant screens in an amphitheatre. The crowd goes wild.)

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Footnote 2 is numbered 3.

2 comes before 3, not after!

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Nah. That's from Wisconsin.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Sorry, you lost me at "Tim Tebow." One of the most obnoxious players in the NFL, which is saying a fair amount.