Wednesday News: Chinese Science Fiction wends its way Westward; EroticaCock excerpts; FAA seeking guidance on electronic device usage
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Fantasy | Random House of Canada – It’s a slow news day so I’m going to link to the website to Random House Canada which has one of the best publisher sites I’ve seen. It’s definitely a site that is designed for the moment as future release dates are hard to come by. However, it highlights the books above all else and I like that. It doesn’t hurt that the fantasy page has my favorite quote in a werewolf series ever. (It’s from Bitten by Kelley Armstrong, the first book in her Women of the Otherworld series) Random House Canada
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Want to use your iPad during takeoff? Tell the FAA – This may all be a public relations ploy or an attempt to pacify complaining passengers, but the FAA is accepting comments on the issue of portable electronic use during take off and landing.
The FAA is seeking comment from passengers, airlines, flight attendants and the makers of electronic devices on a variety of topics such as procedures for testing and gathering data about how portable electronic devices interact with aircraft systems, how to build avionics systems and aircraft that don’t react to Kindles or iPads, and how to build gadget that wouldn’t cause such interference. The agency also wants passengers to weigh in on topics like whether or not voice calls on aircraft would be distracting or staring at your e-reader might make you less likely to pay attention to the safety briefings at the beginning of each flight.Mobile Technology News
Wildly Popular Chinese SF Trilogy to Get English Translation – The first Chinese full length science fiction work is being translated for “overseas audiences” which I presume includes English speaking audiences.
“The Chinese People’s Daily Online reported that Yao Haijun, the deputy director of Science Fiction World (SFW), the world’s biggest selling science fiction periodical, has signed a contract that will make award-winning author Liu Cixin’s “Three Body” trilogy the first full-length sci-fi work to be translated for an overseas audience, calling it “a great leap for the Chinese sci-fi industry.””Publishing Perspectives
The strange and wonderful world of eroticacock – Has, Lou and MinnChica, all erotic romance book lovers, share some of their worst memories of the male member in erotica romance. Most of them are cringe inducing. Others made me cross my legs and whimper in sympathetic pain. As Has tweeted, it’s “NSFW for hoohaas or work” (NSFW=Not Safe for Work)
““He was like this giant fucking machine, with this huge cock tearing into her, dilating her more than should be possible outside of childbirth.””The Book Pushers
I have never understood why I can’t use my ereader on airplane mode during takeoff or landing. If it could possibly interfere with anything just by being on, I need to rethink my transportation choices for my next trip since I don’t trust that the guy in 14C really turned his phone off.
O_O My eyes! They burn! The eroticock just…turned my stomach and made me throw up in my mouth.
@MrsJoseph: Agreed. Eww. I hate my morbid sense of curiosity, because some things just cannot be unread.
@Lada: Not to mention the many people who just put their computers to sleep mode in their carry-ons.
Also, WTF?:
Because staring at your paperback, which is still allowed, is any different?
I followed the eroticacock link and WOW. I had NO idea. I’ve read a couple stories with peens with barbs (Lora Leigh and Emma Holly) and those were enough for me – more than enough, really. I had no idea double headed peens are so common in SF erotica (so that’s one sub genre I don’t have to read).
I thought my excerpt was bad enough with furry covered balls and snapping flange peens, but the other girls totally blasted me out of the water with their excerpts.
I…I’m so glad I wasn’t getting ready to write a love scene…
…huge cock. tearing. dilating….
Not. Sexy. Not. Not. Not.
As a frequent traveler, I have only heard one compelling argument for why I have to turn off my non-internet/data/wifi/phone seeking iPod during takeoff and landing, and that was that it would be too hard to determine which was were allowable and which ones were not. I’d be interested in seeing where the FAA goes with this as how would they be able to tell them apart. Would there be any restrictions any longer?
I’ll have to mosey on over and put in my two cents which always more or less was “If he doesn’t have to stop his digital watch, then I shouldn’t have to stop my iPod because it is pretty much the same thing… except mine plays music.”
@Lada:
No kidding! Every flight I was on in July (4 in all) was entirely peopled by scofflaws! I decided that the whole electronic interference thing must have a critical minimum amount of e-devices on, because people turned their phones back on when the flight attendants weren’t looking. SEVERAL people. It irked me, after I stopped freaking out about it.