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All the news that’s fit to laugh at
Guest blogger Jason Sanford often rants on his website at www.jasonsanford.com . His fiction has been published in Interzone, Year’s Best SF 14, Analog, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Pindeldyboz , and other places, and has won the 2008 Interzone Readers’ Poll and a Minnesota State ...
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Bizarro Fiction: Stout Hearts and Strong Stomachs
Eden Robins writes what she had previously decided should be termed “quirkpunk” but which she would now like to change to “quirkrock,” just to spice things up. She is also co-editor of Brain Harvest and lives in Chicago, dreading the winters. Here’s the question ...
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VanderMeer/Finch News
Stepping in one last time this week to relay some news of interest. First off, it appears Ann and I will be on a segment for NPR’s Weekend Edition one of the next couple of Sundays. (Also look for the WaPo review of Finch this coming Saturday, and an interview with the Onion AV Club ...
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Giving It Away
Will Hindmarch is a freelance writer, graphic designer, and game designer. He also blogs at Gameplaywright and The Gist . Look for him at Jeff VanderMeer’s reading in Atlanta at 8pm on December 11th at Manuel’s Tavern . A few weeks ago, I gave away five poems drawn from a Cessna ...
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so much for November, then
Guest blogger Felix Gilman is the author of the novels Thunderer and Gears of the City, and A History of the Half-Made World , coming next year from Tor. Well OK so I have been a very bad guest blogger. I’d like to pretend I’ve been busy doing something creative or traveling ...
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The Virtues of Vampires
Via Whatever , I found this piece by Matt Yglesias asking why — if vampires are thousands of years old — they don’t act old: Across various fictions, why don’t vampires exhibit more cranky old man characteristics? I’m only 28 and already I feel myself periodically overtaken ...
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Getting it ‘out there’.
Hi all. Jeff very kindly invited me to drop by as a guest blogger while he was away on his signing tour – hope it’s going great Jeff! My name is Liam Sharp and I’m primarily known as a comic book artist from the UK. My first novel, God Killers , launched in Easter this year and is on it’s ...
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Where in the world is Carmen Sa -
I’ve been a bad guest-blogger, but I have an excuse: I spent the last two weeks travelling, first to and from Bangkok on the night train, then by what we in the business call a “jet”, to Singapore. I got home and it was Friday, and I was very happy it was Friday, and had plans ...
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Core Sample: Event 16, Boston
You tell me: Am I holding up? More video here and here . More next week…
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Harlequin Horizons Links
Guest Blogger Charles Tan blogs at Bibliophile Stalker , The World SF News Blog , and SF Signal . Last week’s controversy revolves around Harlequin’s new imprint (previously known as Harlequin Horizons ), which utilizes a vanity-publishing model. As someone who compiles links ...
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Feeling Awesome About Comics and Beyonce: A Few Rantings with Pete Toms
S.J. Chambers is an articles editor for Strange Horizons . Not only has her work appeared in that fine forum, but also Tor.com, Fantasy, Bookslut , and The Baltimore Sun’s Read Street Blog . She is also currently working with Jeff as his Master Archivist for The Steampunk Bible . You ...
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Recommending SFF Books – A Movement
The plan is simply this: to bring new readers into the SFF genre . We’re at a tipping point. Genre is invading the mainstream – or so many articles in newspapers and on television would have you believe, yet the book industry is always anxious at sales performances. It’s a tough ...
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Branded: The Good. The Bad. The Ugly.
Guest blogger Kameron Hurley does most of her ranting at her blog , Brutal Women . You can find some of her recent fiction in Year’s Best SF 12, Strange Horizons , and EscapePod . She currently makes a living as a marketing and sales copywriter in Ohio, and has sold or nearly sold or sort of ...
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Boston: MIT and Borders
Omnivoracious just ran two video interview pieces with me , one of which is reproduced above. Tomorrow I’m at MIT in the late afternoon giving a lecture, and then Friday night I’m at Borders in Boston reading with David Anthony Durham and Paul Tremblay….and I shall not ...
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National Book Awards Tonight–coverage
About to head off with Ann to the National Book Awards. I’ll be doing my coverage as comments to this post , as the easiest low-tech way to avoid any kind of interruption. Check there from about 7:30pm EST on.
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How did you come to the SF genres?
Guest blogger Jason Sanford often rants on his website at www.jasonsanford.com . His fiction has been published in Interzone, Year’s Best SF 14, Analog, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Pindeldyboz , and other places, and has won the 2008 Interzone Readers’ Poll and a Minnesota State ...
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Interstitial Art Based On Interstitial Fiction
Hey everyone, I’m not officially guest blogging right now but Jeff gave me permission to pop on the blog for one post and pimp a project in your direction. I’ve been involved with the Interstitial Arts Foundation for the past several years, making myself useful and coming up with ...
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Booklife, The Tour, and Brookdale Community College
Here’s a video interview Omnivoracious did with me recently, with a second one forthcoming. Also remember to check out the Booklife site for new content every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Booklife has gone back to a second printing. I’ve also found out that Finch will come ...
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Unleash the Grossbarts
S.J. Chambers is an articles editor for Strange Horizons . Not only has her work appeared in that fine forum, but also Tor.com, Fantasy, Bookslut, and The Baltimore Sun’s Read Street Blog . She is also currently working with Jeff as his Master Archivist for The Steampunk Bible. You can ...
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What I’ve Been Reading (or Watching): Pre-Holiday Edition
It’s always hard to keep up with everything that’s out there, especially in today’s digital world. I’d like to think that I do a fairly decent job of managing to keep myself informed of what’s going on in the print and digital marketplaces but, of course, thinking that I do a decent job of ...
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