Political SF: another suggestion
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I find Ken MacLeod interesting, but for really well-written political SF, you can't beat Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. He really fleshes out his ideas, taking them to their logical conclusion and beyond without ever seeming implausible. And his writing is beautiful, where MacLeod's is merely functional.
Surely any MP3->OGG converter must include an MP3 decoder, and therefore would be subject to the fee.
Of course, if you've already got an MP3->OGG converter this is no big deal. But similarly, if you've already got an MP3 player, it's too late for anybody to collect.
Actually even Mozart didn't compose entirely in his head--he'd spend plenty of time working out his ideas at the piano before committing them to paper. The notion that he composed in his head has been reinforced by "Amadeus" and a long tradition of over-romanticized biography, which recent musicological scholarship has refuted.
This is not to say Mozart wasn't a genius, of course. And he certainly could compose in his head much better than, say, I could write code in my head.
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I find Ken MacLeod interesting, but for really well-written political SF, you can't beat Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy. He really fleshes out his ideas, taking them to their logical conclusion and beyond without ever seeming implausible. And his writing is beautiful, where MacLeod's is merely functional.
Surely any MP3->OGG converter must include an MP3 decoder, and therefore would be subject to the fee.
Of course, if you've already got an MP3->OGG converter this is no big deal. But similarly, if you've already got an MP3 player, it's too late for anybody to collect.
Actually even Mozart didn't compose entirely in his head--he'd spend plenty of time working out his ideas at the piano before committing them to paper. The notion that he composed in his head has been reinforced by "Amadeus" and a long tradition of over-romanticized biography, which recent musicological scholarship has refuted.
This is not to say Mozart wasn't a genius, of course. And he certainly could compose in his head much better than, say, I could write code in my head.