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Work is really busy this week -- particularly since it's a short four-day week sandwiched between the big family vacation and a business trip (starting Saturday morning, no less) to San Francisco -- and so I haven't had two brain cells to rub together to do any blogging. Tomorrow is less ...
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I was deep in the wilds of Disney when this was announced, and I'm still thousands of posts behind (in two separate feed readers, no less), but I did catch up far enough to see the winners of the 2009 World Fantasy Awards were... Lifetime Achievement : Ellen Asher & Jane Yolen Best Novel ...
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World Fantasy Awards
Jeffrey Ford
Kelly Link
Sometime this week, there will be my usual "Reviewing the Mail" post in this space, covering whatever books came in last week. But it's not here yet, because I'm still at Walt Disney World, and have been during every mail delivery this week. So I have no idea what books are waiting for me, ...
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Right at this moment, I'm still at Disney World, and the last thing on my mind is blogging. Luckily, I have emergency posts stored up in the attic for just such situations as this. The Internet, as always, feeds on spare time and produces odd thoughts. This was true even back in 2004, when a ...
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It's a miracle that Christopher Buckley came out halfway normal, with two such attention-grabbing parents as Patricia (socialite among socialites) and William (prime mover of the conservative movement, writer at immense length about nearly everything, and premiere stuffed shirt of the 20th ...
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"'And I myself,' continued Ford in a voice so superior it would have caused single-cell life forms to accelerate their evolution so that they could use their fab new opposable thumbs to pick up a rock and beat him to death. 'I myself base most of my calculations on emotions.'" - And Another ...
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The Return
Jeffrey Ford
Douglas Adams
"Since masturbation is what erotic writing so often leads to, that was reason enough to make [D.H.] Lawrence's novel [ Lady Chatterly's Lover ] controversial; but in addition, through the character of the gamekeeper, Lawrence probes the sensitivity and psychological attachment that man often ...
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Lawrence Watt-Evans
Because all I have to say about them can be said more succinctly: Things Undone by Shane White (NBM/ComicsLit, November 2009, $12.95) This is White's second graphic novel, after North Country , which I didn't see. His hero, Rick Watt, is a mopey twentysomething who moves jobs from ...
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It would be unfair, and arguably wrong, to say that Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series went straight downhill from the beginning. Even the most crazed fan has to admit that the records were just as good as the original radio show, and that the Infocom game is possibly even better. But, if the ...
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Douglas Adams
What is science fiction? Chemistry for Beginners is not a novel most of us would fit under that umbrella, even though it's all about working scientists doing cutting-edge research on the frontiers of biological science in what may be the very near future. But that research is into female ...
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The actual list will begin after the ritual disclaimer: These are books that came in my mail last week, sent by various publicists in the hope that I'll review them. I get more books than I could ever review -- leaving aside the currently-large pile of books I read intending to review that I ...
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I do these monthly lists mostly for my own benefit, and to serve as an index of my reviews (either here or elsewhere). I do scatter a few new capsule reviews into each one, of books that I didn't write about at greater length elsewhere. Links are mostly to those reviews, with a few (the ...
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About half an hour ago, I finished updating a spreadsheet for work and uploaded it back to the company portal, meaning that I've officially finished all of the work I needed to do and that I can now consider myself On Vacation. And so I am. Tomorrow morning, very early, all four members of the ...
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My "Manga Friday" column for this week featured a review of a collection of gekiga stories -- in this case, historicals set about a hundred years ago in small Japanese villages -- Susumu Katsumata's Red Snow . Next week I'm on vacation and pretty much incommunicado, but if I manage to write ...
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Another one of those Internet quizzes, which I suspect I may have done before...but it's a Saturday, so it's an easy post. I got this from James Nicoll . Greed: Medium Gluttony: High Wrath: Very Low Sloth: High Envy: Very Low Lust: Medium Pride: Low ...
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Every reader needs comfort: something to retreat to when things aren't going as planned, a calm oasis of perfection while the storm rages outside. For me, the books of P.G. Wodehouse perfectly fit that bill. Even better, he wrote over a hundred of them in his long life, so I'm still able to ...
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"It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result is twins." - Chinese proverb
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antickmusings.blogspot.com - 13 days ago
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To me, this is like having Christmas decorations
up in August -- there's still sixty days left
in the year, folks! it's not over yet! -- but clearly no one listens to me. PW has just posted their top ten books of 2009 , excerpted from a longer list of ...
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Publishers Weekly Also Thinks the Year Is Over
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Greenberg, as the cover of Don't Go There! helpfully notes, is the Travel Editor [1] for NBC's Today Show , so many of you may already have heard of him. This is his latest breezy book about traveling the world, with an emphasis on the places he expects people will want to avoid. Don't Go ...
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Peter Copley
There's a new Mind Meld post up at SF Signal , and I'm part of it. The question this time is: INTRO: Recent events and discussions once again bring the topic of genre fiction's mainstream respectability to the forefront. So we thought it'd be timely to ask this week's panelists: Q: In your ...
