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http://ofblog.blogspot.com/ - Eclectic and striving never to follow paths into ruts, the OF Blog focuses on essays, reviews, interviews, and other odds and ends that might be of interest to fans of both literary and speculative fiction.
The latest issue of what I consider to be one of the best literary journals/anthologies, Conjunctions: 53: Not Even Past: Hybrid Histories , arrived in the mail this morning. I've been looking forward to this issue for six months now. Bradford Morrow, who's edited ...
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Here's the link :
1. Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest (this novel left me with conflicted feelings. The prose was strong, the setting unique, and yet there was something about the story that left me cold. Sent this to another and she felt the same way. Perhaps ...
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Spent some of Saturday and most of yesterday in bed, coughing and vomiting a few times. It's either a bad sinus infection developing, or I have a mild case of food poisoning (no fever, so I doubt it was the flu). Ribs hurt like a mutha, though. Not good.
Been reading the ...
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Taken from Science Fiction Awards Watch :
Lifetime Achievement : Ellen Asher & Jane Yolen
Best Novel (tie) : The Shadow Year , Jeffrey Ford (Morrow) & Tender Morsels , Margo Lanagan (Allen & Unwin; Knopf)
Best Novella : “If Angels Fight”, Richard Bowes ( F&SF 2/08)
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Jeffrey Ford
This time, it was Harry Markov from Temple Library Reviews who decided for some odd reason that I would make for a good interview subject. Click on the link above and go decide for yourself if I have had an interesting life. Or just go because you might like Harry's site. Or ...
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Harry Harrison
I've known about this for over a month now, but was asked to be mum about it until it was announced at the World Fantasy Convention . Friday, a series of people, including the University of California at Riverside (who are the planned hosts for this award) announced the creation of the ...
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Been over a month since I've updated my 2009 reading list, so here are the books I've read over the past five weeks or so, with tiny commentaries:
369 Jaime Martínez Tolentino, Cuentos Fantásticos (Spanish) (decent)
370 Hayo Miyazaki, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, vol. ...
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The Sparrow
Pat has written an interesting column about the "hate" he's been noticing recently, in the context of the comments posted to his blog and those posted elsewhere. While I often have differences of opinion with him, I think he raises some interesting points. That doesn't mean, however, ...
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Due to the growing length of this interview,
David and I decided it would be best to
divide it into two parts, with the second part appearing in the next few days. A couple of years ago, you were interviewed by several ...
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Interview with David Anthony Durham, Part I
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Bibliophile Stalker
found this 10 days agofound this
ofblog.blogspot.com - 11 days ago
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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come
and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades
to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age ...
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Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson, The Gathering Storm
Here are 16 out of the 23 books I bought today at my favorite local used bookstore (well, actually I traded in about 35 hardcovers, tradebacks, and MMPBs of books I had no interest in reading and which I had had in my possession for about a year or two for almost $200), with the other ...
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ofblog.blogspot.com - 15 days ago
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Going to be writing a formal review of
this on the 27th that will be quite a
bit more substantive than this, with quite a bit of discussion of thematic elements, characterization issues, plot development, how well Brandon Sanderson managed to ...
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I just finished reading The Gathering Storm and some ...
ofblog.blogspot.com - 18 days ago
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Wyte stopped walking, faced him. Finch had his
back to a crumbling wall veined through with fungus
so blue it looked black. An overlay of scattered bullet holes. Across the street, a laughing pack of Partials shoved a couple of ...
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Jeff VanderMeer, Finch
Before I ever started this blog, I was associated with wotmania, one of the largest Wheel of Time fansites before its demise back on August 31, 2009. During my time there as a member and Administrator, I came to know several wonderful people, including two of the people most responsible ...
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ofblog.blogspot.com - 19 days ago
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Jeff VanderMeer is a multiple award-winning author of
several books, including one of my favorite fantasy settings,
Ambergris. The Ambergris Cycle is composed of City of Saints and Madmen (2002; rev. 2004, 2006), Shriek: An Afterword ...
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Interview with Jeff VanderMeer
I've been really quiet, too quiet really, around here (and elsewhere) these past few weeks. However, there are a few things I plan on having up in the next week or two that should be of interest to several here.
First, there are two interviews I'm working on now, with David Anthony ...
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Forget the weighty issue of choosing between excellent books. I have decided to present to you a new image (in the upper right corner of the blog) and a new poll seeking opinions on a possible (un)official mascot for this blog.
There's just something about squirrels that has appealed to ...
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Fun to watch the person who has refreshed/deleted cookies 19 times apparently (according to the Sitemeter log that I just checked on a whim) to vote for George R.R. Martin's Fevre Dream enough times to make it the apparent winner with just over two hours to go in voting.
Guess what? I ...
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I have participated in several interviews this year, with each of them, whether they appear on this blog or on the Nebula Awards site, being rewarding to do. But despite how in-depth these interviews might be, I find myself always deleting this one question, because I can't decide if it's ...
