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I know this site is full of ads, but isn't this a little bit too much? It's just a link to buy a book on Amazon. At least pretend to have hacker spirit, wrap it
by raincole 1y ago
I know this site is full of ads, but isn't this a little bit too much? It's just a link to buy a book on Amazon. At least pretend to have hacker spirit, wrap it as "how I use {insert open source book layout software} to make a book" and sell DRM-free epub or something. Where is the usual HN hatred towards DRM, Amazon and copyright...
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- SideburnsOfDoom 1y agoThere has been a gap in the market ever since Gardner Dozois died and "The Year's Best Science Fiction" ceased. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year%27s_Best_Science_Fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year%27s_Best_Science_Fict...
- shawn_w 1y agoI've been enjoying The Long List anthology series put out by Diabolical Plots. Stories that were nominated for a Hugo but didn't get enough of them to make the final ballot. It's up to 9 volumes. https://www.diabolicalplots.com/support/books/ https://www.diabolicalplots.com/support/books/
- mojoe 1y agoI'm the editor, and I actually used LaTeX to typeset the book and wrote my own Python software to keep track of all the story metadata while I was evaluating stories over the course of the last year, I should write a post about that :)
- dang 1y agoPlease do! and email us at hn@ycombinator.com if you submit it to Hacker News.
- oraphalous 1y agoI bought the book - looks good! Would be keen to know which magazines they were originally published in. I feel you should include those references in the book (forgive me if I've missed them.)
- mojoe 1y agoAll of the source references are in the section called "Permissions" at the end of the book, this is a common way that anthologies do references but I understand it is easy to miss!