Anne McCaffrey, the prolific science fiction and fantasy author who was best known for her “Dragonriders of Pern” novels, has died of a stroke at her home in Ireland. She was 85. McCaffrey is celebrated for the new worlds she created in her fiction, such as in the “Dragonriders of Pern” — where a whole society is based on dragon-riding, and in “The Ship Who Sang ” — in which a starship’s functions are controlled entirely by a severely disabled girl. Read full article > >

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Spanish police say they have arrested three senior members of the prolific online hacker collective Anonymous. According to officials, they found a computer server in one of the suspects’ homes that was responsible for helping launch the attack against…

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Spain Arrests Three in Sony Hack

Spanish police say they have arrested three senior members of the prolific online hacker collective Anonymous. According to officials, they found a computer server in one of the suspects’ homes that was responsible for helping launch the attack against…

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Spain Arrests Three in Sony Hack

After David Foster Wallace took his life in 2008, his editor, Michael Pietsch, traveled to the author’s home in Claremont, Calif., to go through what remained of his unpublished writing and to see what kind of shape it was in. It would have been surprising had the prolific Wallace — who wrote essays, short stories and journalism in addition to novels, and whose previous novel, “Infinite Jest” (1996), was more than 1,000 pages long — not left something behind for his friend to retrieve.

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David Foster Wallace’s ‘Pale King’: Plot takes back seat to mood and ideas

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