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Free classics for the Microsoft Reader, including The Art of War, The Aeneid, Moby Dick, The Jungle, Heart of Darkness, The Sea Wolf, The Beast in the Jungle, Crome Yellow (Amazon) Wardrip-Fruin, chapman, Moss, & Whitehurst's collaborative hypertext, "The Impermanence Agent" (The Iowa Review) William Gay reads from "Provinces of Night," in RealAudio (Bold Type) 
Here's a great list of arts-and-technology-related titles to watch for in the coming months. Please keep in mind that book release dates are nebulous. These hypertexts, e-books, and print books may be available sooner or later than the dates listed. Enjoy! Aitken, David: Sleeping with Jane Austen: A Riveting Tale of Obsession and Murder (FourWallsEightWindows). Disturbing, yet funny, study of confession and truth. Do we really believe mental patient Daniel Adamson — a man who will murder or steal just to have a woman's ear — is innocent because of his home life, the ozone layer, even his own genes? [expected 04/01] Bradley, George: Some Assembly Required (Knopf). Poems focused on the unusual vortex of our hypercharged, modern world and the unhurried, cyclical imaginings of the human mind. [expected 08/01] Brady, Angela: CyberFire & Other Flames (PocketPCpress). These poems offer profound insight into the chatroom experience and other cyber experiences. [currently available] Coverly, M.D.: Califia (Eastgate Systems). This first rate hypertext examines the memories of five generations of Californians, full of bravado and mystery, as Augusta Summerland searches for a lost cache of gold. [currently available] Garwin, Richard L., and George Charpak: Megawatts and Megatons (Knopf). The genius of Garwin, designer of the first hydrogen bomb, and Charpak, Nobel Prize winner in Physics, is clear in this book of non-fiction as they argue in favor of the use of nuclear power [expected 08/01] Moorcock, Michael: The Cornelius Quartet: "The Final Program," "A Cure for Cancer," "The English Assasin," and "The Condition of Muzak" (FourWallsEightWindows). Finally, the complete tale of Jerry Cornelius: Hit man, musician, physicist, and English messiah of the modern age. [expected 05/01] Munt, Sally R., ed.: Technospaces (Continuum). People meet technology in technospaces, places outside the body and the city and reality — or are they? Contributors reflect on Luddite concerns and the possibilities of a tech-driven Utopia. [expected 05/01] Murakami, Haruki: Sputnik Sweetheart (Knopf). The author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Norwegian Wood has written a missing-person novel/ love story. It involves a young Japanese teacher's unrequited love, strange computer accounts of the missing girl, a constantly orbiting Sputnik, and deep meditations on human longing. Read his interview on Salon. [expected 04/01] O'Hear, Anthony: New Century Philosophy (Continuum). A philosophical study of science versus religion. Is there knowledge outside of the lab? Does religion still have meaning in the modern world? Why don't more contemporary artists believe in beauty and the future?[expected 06/01} Reynaud, Francoise: Paris in 3D: From the Stereoscope to virtual reality 1850-2000 (Booth-Clibborn Editions). This beautiful book describes how stereoscopic images, the first 3D pictures, caught on in Paris in the 1850s, but how recently, computer-generated 3D imagery has expanded the uses of the stereoscope to include the design of the new Météor line on the Métro and Web sites allowing subscribers to create figures who roam city streets. [currently available} Rogers, Pattiann: Song of the World Becoming: Poems, New and Collected, 1981-2001 (Milkweed). Read her interview with The Morpo Review. Shepard, Lucius: The Jaguar Hunter (FourWallsEightWindows). These fourteen stories, including a previously unpublished novella, prove that this Nebula Award-winning writer defies genre labels. Shepard brings together sci-fi, realism, cyber punk, and more. [expected 04/01} Tell us what you think. Email talkback@pifmagazine.com Want Pif to review your book? Camille Renshaw is the Editor-in-Chief for Pif Magazine. |
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