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Hey here’s happy news: Small Beer Press will be bringing Ted Chiang’s Stories of Your Life and Others back into print in October. A book I’ve wanted for ages, and a publisher I like paying: win!

From the back cover of “Typographie als voertuig van de wetenschap” (“Typography as vehicle of science”): Dit is op aarde van al ‘t kwaad de grootste straf: Wie eenmal lezen kan, die leert het nooit meer af. Of all the evil on the earth this is the greatest pain: Who once has learned to read, [...]

I’ve posted a few photos from my and Michael Franke’s PhD defences. There are not many, and it’s a bit of an egocentric selection. There were in fact lots of photos of other people, crowd shots etc, but none of them turned out. Really honestly truly! Lots of low-light blurred shots, and some from the [...]