Banned Books

Future talk (San Diego Union-Tribune)

24 Jul 2008

Twelve years before Sputnik, the late science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke wrote a 1945 story in Wireless World magazine describing a ring of geostationary satellites orbiting Earth, all part of a system that relayed communications anywhere on the planet.

Botash finally gets its say on Ansac (Independent Online)

24 Jul 2008

After eight years of legal delays, the merits of the oldest case on the books of the competition authorities were finally aired at a competition tribunal hearing yesterday.

For Nobel literature laureate, China is part of the past (AFP via Yahoo! News)

24 Jul 2008

A friend of Gao Xingjian, the first and only Chinese writer to win the Nobel prize for literature, recently managed to find a pirated copy of his banned work at an underground Chinese bookstore.