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Welcome to the (reloaded) website of Alison Sinclair, author of SF novels Legacies (1995), Blueheart (1996), and Cavalcade (1998), and fantasies Darkborn (2009), Lightborn (forthcoming in 2010) and Shadowborn (forthcoming in 2011). Here you will find information about my novels and other writing, my irregularly-updated blog in its latest incarnation, and my lifestream of tweets, bookmarks, photographs, and what have you.
Latest from “Incidental Findings”
- The Heroine’s Journey I (Remnant Population)
Courtesy of the Heroine's Journey thread over at Tor.com, about which I'll say more once I've dug myself out from underneath Bayesian analysis, counterfactual models, causality, directed acyclic graphs, fractional [More...]
- Feeding Zotero
Zotero is where I keep an eclectic library of background to works in progress, works in incubation, and topics of interest. Zotero 2.0, which is still in beta, allows registered [More...]
- TiddlyWiki: a demonstration
I expressed my enthusiasm for TiddlyWikis in general terms in [cref favorites-tiddlywiki a previous post], since I find them mindbogglingly useful (to borrow a phrase) for keeping running notes on [More...]
- A few of my favourite tools: Wine
Wine (named in recursive fashion “Wine is not an emulator”) is used to run Windows applications on Linux; essentially, it interprets Windows commands for Linux and vice versa. I first [More...]
- A few of my favourite tools: Tiddlywiki
This started as part of my earlier post on DokuWiki and MAMP, and then grew to demand a separate entry. Tiddlywiki, a demonstration of über-Javascripting, goes places other wikis cannot. [More...]
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