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Into the labyrinth that is the web. Links and side-tracks.
Here is a typical evening’s trajectory, over a rum and tonic with bitters:
Matt Staggs’ post on Martin Millar → Ennis Drake’s comment on the post → Berrien C Henderson → Behind the Wainscot → Farrago’s Wainscot…
And who is there, behind Farrago’s wainscoting? Ekaterina Sedia, Cat Rambo, Catherynne M Valente, Jeff Vandermeer and others, lurking, their blasphemous gibberings and scratchings whispering to my fevered brain…
Sentinelese Woman
I was reading on Wikipedia about the Sentinelese people in the Andaman Islands (who still aggressively maintain their isolation from the rest of the world) and I was led to this Swiss-based site, which focuses on a number of important and interesting cultures and themes in anthropology.
Wikipedia have the following links regarding the Sentinelese:
- “The Last Island of the Savages”, in-depth article by Adam Goodheart
- Another article from the same site
- Brief factsheet about the indigenous people of the Andaman Islands, by the Andaman & Nicobar Administration
- Administration in India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands has finally decided upon a policy of minimal interference
- The Sentinelese: government attempts at contact, Survival International – Includes a rare video clip of contact with the Sentinelese.
And there is a page on Wikipedia devoted to ‘uncontacted peoples’ here.
A Nautilus
I’m catching up with my online reading and I just spotted this, a Romanian SF webzine, mentioned by Horia Ursu in his post on Ecstatic Days two days ago.
I hit on the name Nautiloid by a kind of happy accident and I am quite fond of it.
So now, I suppose I should do some research into just how many Nautilus-related sites there are out there, and perhaps even put a Nautilus-themed page on this blog.
August Issue
Clarkesworld Magazine has a wonderful interview with Wolfe here.
I know I’m probably days, possibly weeks late with this, but if you missed it too, you might like it.
