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REVIEW SUMMARY : Very fun pair of stories by one of the new stars of science fiction.
MY RATING :
BRIEF SYNOPSIS : Bob Howard is a h4x0r who stumbles upon secrets man was not meant to know. Well, it turns out men do know it, but the knowledge is restricted and protected in order to ...
Books
Charles Stross
I'm not sure this is as useful for kids as it is creepy that Wonder Woman just shows up uninvited into some house whose owners left their kids apparently alone.
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Dreamworks' next project, How to Train Your Dragon , an animated adaptation of Cressida Cowell's book, hits theaters March 2010. Here's a nice-looking trailer
[via CG Hub ]
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Interviews/Profiles Grasping for the Wind interviews J.C. Hutchins ( 7th Son: Descent ). Fantasy Magazine interviews K.D. Wentworth and Christie Skipper Richotte . The Sword and Laser interviews Brandon Sanderson (podcast). Jonathan Moeller interviews Michael Spence & Elisabeth Waters ...
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Brandon Sanderson
Jeff VanderMeer
Ray Bradbury
Check out this awesome award-winning short film, Skhizein by Jérémy Clapin, in which a meteor strike causes a man to feel beside himself. By exactly 91 centimeters.
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Here's author Dan Abnett talking about Ultramarines , the upcoming Warhammer 40,000 adaptation.
[via Quiet Earth ]
Books
Dan Simmons
Here is a handy index to our interview series with most of the contributors to The Apex Book of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar: Guy Hasson Aliette de Bodard Jetse de Vries Melanie Fazi Kaaron Warren Aleksandar Žiljak Anil Menon Dean Francis Alfar Tunku Halim Han Song Jamil Nasir ...
Books
Lavie Tidhar
Trouble-prone teen Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out school - but that's the least of his problems. The gods of Mount Olympus and assorted monsters seem to have walked out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology texts and into his life - and they're not happy. Zeus' lightning bolt has ...
TV
Joshua Jackson
James Bond
Interviews/Profiles New The Business of Writing video series with Tad Williams ( The Writer's Journey , Why Did You Become a Writer? ). (via Cheryl K. Morgan ) The Dragon Page interviews J.C. Hutchins (podcast). Larry Nolen interviews David Anthony Durham . The Link interviews Cory Doctorow ...
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[Interviewer's Note: This is a series of interviews
featuring the contributors of The Apex Book of World
SF edited by Lavie Tidhar. It'll run every Monday to Friday until I run out of interviews. Two of these interviews will be reprinted in Apex ...
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Zoran Živković
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Fiction and fantasy book covers can be as
awe-inspiring as the stories they are trying to sell.
We asked this week's panelists: Q: Which are the most memorable book covers in science fiction and fantasy? (You can name up to 10.) Read on to see ...
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MIND MELD: The Most Memorable SF/F Book Covers
Interviews/Profiles Innsmouth Free Press interviews Tanith Lee . Shrink Geek interviews Jay Lake and Elizabeth Bear . The Interstitial Arts Foundation interviews Jeffrey Ford . Book Babble interviews Brian Evenson (podcast). The Agony Column has a recording of the World Fantasy Convention ...
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[Interviewer's Note: This is a series of interviews
featuring the contributors of The Apex Book of World
SF edited by Lavie Tidhar. It'll run every Monday to Friday until I run out of interviews. Two of these interviews will be reprinted in Apex ...
(more)
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Nir Yaniv
Good news: Updated special effects and a rock soundtrack.
Better news: No shirtless Harry Hamlin!
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Following up his question on the best book endings, John at grasping for the Wind asks bloggers about The Worst Endings in SF/F/H .
My 2 pennies are listed along with many others. (That's a lot of pennies!)
(See also: Our own Mind meld: Which SF/F Books Have The Best and Worst Endings? )
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REVIEW SUMMARY : Another fine audio anthology from Infinivox
MY RATING :
BRIEF SYNOPSIS : A 3-CD set (totaling 224 minutes) that features a trio of science fiction audio stories involving aliens.
MY REVIEW :
PROS : All three stories are good;
CONS : None of these stories are ...
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Amazon.com Widgets
Song: Vampires in Love
Artist: Marvelous 3
Album: Hey Album!
Sometimes, I feel like I've missed my true calling in life. While I love writing and recording songs about Science Fiction and Fantasy, I think that I would be an awesome Music Supervisor for movies and ...
Gaming
Moon
Your Mission (should you choose to accept it): Tell us which cover you like best and why.
Books shown here:
The Hugo Awards Showcase, 2010 Volume edited by Mary Robinette Kowal (Artist: Donato Giancola )
Gardens in the Sun by Paul McAuley (Artist: Stephan Martiniere ) ...
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Hugo Awards
Paul McAuley
@Strange Horizons: " A Brief Investigation of the Process of Decay " by Genevieve Valentine.
@Daybreak: " The Gender Plague " by K.D. Wentworth
@Concatenation: " Birthday Surprises " by Erika Cule (PDF)
@Author's SIte: " Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom " by David Moles
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Jules Verne
Lost
Survivors
So...you think you're a trivia master of The Matrix trilogy, huh? Think you know everything there is to know?
Prove it. Head on over to AMC's SciFi Scanner where they're running the Matrix Quiz that I put together, then leave a comment there with your score. My grandmother got 80%.
