In a perfect world, we would be able to read books all day long

With the arrival of a new translation of Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, the Boston Globe takes a look at the dystopian novel which was an inspiration for Brave New World and 1984.

We is just one of many products the publishing industry continues to pump out. Here's a trio of remarkably terse science fiction book reviews from the Miami Herald. I want the job of writing those.

If you found those reviews too brief, then here's a slightly longer review, but not by much, of an obscure book that you will probably never read. Even more obscure is this interview with a British grandfather who's written his first science fiction novel. That's one more science fiction novel than I've published.

You may be more interested in this review of an anthology of the year's best Australian science fiction and fantasy or this diss on Michael Crichton's science.

No matter what books you read, you probably aren't aware of how publishers fit books to attain specified page counts. Here's an inside look at how books are designed.

If you zoned out while reading this blog entry, then you're not alone. All of us occasionally lose focus on what we're reading and find ourselves mechanically turning pages then realizing that we didn't process any of the words we just read. Scientists are trying to figure out why we do it.