<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>plime.com : books : All Links : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>plime.com : books : All Links : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest In Peace Thomas Disch]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/67925/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Thomas M. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M._Disch" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Disch</a> was a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Thomas_M._Disch" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">science-fiction</a> <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.edrants.com/segundo/thomas-m-disch-bss-219/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">author</a> and <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.speakeasy.org/~rubel/disch/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">poet</a>. His <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.strangehorizons.com/2001/20010730/interview.shtml" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">books</a> and <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.freesfonline.de/authors/Thomas_Disch.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">stories</a>, even the adventure game he wrote, <i>Amnesia</i> were very well received. He will be missed by all.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark Twain: Our Original Superstar]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/67850/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Mark Twain. Oh, that old cracker-barrel guy, you may say. White suit, cigar, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated--but he died back in 1910, no? White, male, and didn't he write in dialect? What does he have to do with the issues of our day?]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dungeons and Desktops]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/67560/1/</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Dungeons and Desktops: The History of Computer Role-playing Games&quot;.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Author who wrote her first book at 14 is tipped to be the next JK Rowling]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/64461/1/</link><description><![CDATA[19-year old Catherine Banner is celebrating her latest book's publication, <i>The Eyes Of A King</i>. There are already talks about a movie version.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[David Brin's Temptation]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/63878/1/</link><description><![CDATA[David Brin is well known to science-fiction fans. His <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uplift_Universe" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Uplift</a> novels are especially loved. Here is a novella set in the same universe. It tells of a female dolphin on the faraway world, Jijo, who must escape from two of her own kind and then penetrate a deeply dangerous ancient secret.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free online novel: &quot;Timely Persuasion&quot;]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/63541/1/</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Back to the Future Meets Quantum Leap in Rock and Roll Heaven.&quot;  A novel you can read online for free, download for a few bucks, or buy in paperback for a few more.  I've read the first few chapters, and they're pretty good stuff.<br/>For book jacket kind of info: <div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://timelypersuasion.com/Story.html" rel="nofollow">http://timelypersuasion.com/Story.html</a></div>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[No more myths....]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/62869/1/</link><description><![CDATA[I am sad to have to break the news....<br/><br/>Robert Asprin died in his home today.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The land of punnishment...]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/62854/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The Xanth series, by Piers Anthony, where everything is punderful, in a land based roughly on Flor-eee-duh!]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historian of Things That Never Were]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/62700/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Links to 395 timelines to fictional universes from books, movies, books, and comics.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading Through The Write Window]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/62695/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A wonderful site with a very large and diverse collection of authors providing a vast collection of poetry and prose for adults and children.<br/><br/>Sadly the site shut down, but is still up and still hosts the authors' works. There won't be any new offerings however. Read it now while you can.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[McGonagall beats Potter]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/62326/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Don't panic - this is not BDSM slash fiction set in Hogwarts.<br/><br/>Updating Psycmoe's <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/weird/l/62179/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">post</a>, the works of William McGonagall, the world's worst poet, sold at auction for more than a set of autographed Harry Potter first editions.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/61672/1/</link><description><![CDATA[From the popular book, here is the list of those books which the editors felt you must read.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Comic Book Script Archive]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/61671/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Many of us are familiar with sites such as Drew's script o' Rama which offers movie/tv scripts. However, until now, there was not a similar site for comic book scripts. Great collection that is growing.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Double Daddy Penguins?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/61075/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A children's story about a family of penguins with two fathers once again tops the list of library books the public objects to the most.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orson Scott Card Weighs In On JK Rowling's Lawsuit]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/60408/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Orson Scott Card, author of the Ender series, the Seventh Son series, and others feels that Rowling is basically a cowardly little wench for suing the small publisher of a 10,000-copy edition of The Harry Potter Lexicon.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[50 Best Cult Books]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/59641/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A selection of history's most notable cult writing. Some is classic. Some is catastrophic. All of it had the power to inspire.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make Enemies and Alienate People]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/58379/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A satirical new book serves up a 10-step program on how to be, well &#8230; an a--hole]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of free text books ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/58061/1/</link><description><![CDATA[]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The forbidden library]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/58053/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A list of banned and challenged books where and why they are banned]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cure For Writer's Block]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/57993/1/</link><description><![CDATA[...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Govt. Textbook Under Fire after High Schooler Raises Questions]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/57554/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Talk about a civics lesson: A high-school senior has raised questions about political bias in a popular textbook on U.S. government, and legal scholars and top scientists say the teen's criticism is well-founded.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hey Guys, Looking For A Good Book?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/57500/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The best of 2 greats!]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Art of War]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/57047/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Sun Tzu's classic for download.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scott Sigler's novel, Infected free download]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/55951/1/</link><description><![CDATA[<a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Sigler" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Scott's</a> newest novel, <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307406105/downandoutint-20" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Infected</a> comes out April 1st. It is a science-fiction/horror blend. You can download it for free for the next few days. It is in <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/infected/downloads/infected_novel.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">pdf format.</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accidents of youth]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/books/l/55832/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The Accidents of Youth is a 1819 book of short stories to warn children of the dangerous temptations they should avoid and the gory consequences for not following their mother&#8217;s advice. (In flip book form)<br/><br/>Really weird and quite disturbing]]></description></item></channel></rss>