What’s New in Free: Lots of Poems, One Massive Fanzine

I’ve spent some time playing with the Academy of American Poets‘s mobile poetry archive at http://www.poets.org/m, and while the formatting comes out differently on my Treo than the iPhone example shown, it’s still pretty spiffy. The icon buttons on the home page help you find poems by themes (from weddings and funerals to shoes and space aliens) and you can also search for your favorite poet or whatever you can remember of a poem’s title. Go have a look!

About a month ago, after the first hints of a new website for Tor, the science-fiction/fantasy wing of Macmillan, Simon Owens of Bloggasm asked around and heard the new site would include social networking capability and original fiction. Earlier this week, senior editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden spilled more details, identifying the soon-to-launch site as “a place and a context for the lively, ongoing, wide-ranging, and profoundly self-organizing discussions that have characterized the science fiction subculture since its earliest days.” Is it a promotional venture? “Only in the sense that Tor is a pretty good brand to put on something associated with science fiction,” says Nielsen Hayden, who promises the new site won’t just be limited to his own company’s authors and books. In addition to the aforementioned original fiction, for example, there will be webcomics. Until then, they’re still giving away free downloads if you sign up for the newsletter.

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