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Last post before I vanish for rest of this month. John Ottinger III at Grasping for the Wind put the above question to several bloggers & has collected their responses here , among them my brief note on Gentry Lee & Arthur Clarke " Rama Revealed " - last story in the Rama series .
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F&SF Forum is enumerating the stories from the magazine "that takes place primarily on or within the ocean" . Related : "best of" lists ; fiction from F&SF magazine .
Other
I'll be traveling rest of this month, making blogging inconvenient. Next post should appear early December 2009. Enjoy the fortnight. PS : For readers who haven't seen it - Best Science Fiction Stories is a low volume blog with a couple of posts a week, almost exclusively talking about online ...
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Hugo Gernsback is the man after whom Hugo Awards are named. Each issue is available at Crosseyed Cyclop s as a CBR or CBZ file containing JPG files of individual pages. Note for readers unfamiliar with these formats : I personally append ".rar" extension to these files, & extract the ...
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Hugo Awards
It's one of the Hugo Gernsback 's magazines, & scans in CBR format are online at Crosseyed Cyclops . Table of contents. Frank J Bridge's "The War Lord of Venus": "Across fifty million miles & thirty million years they traveled to battle for the supremacy of a great world!" Nat ...
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Frank Herbert
Elizabeth received a cool 16th birthday gift from her grandmother - her genome analysis that predicts her future susceptibility to diseases & sundry other things. But fate holds nasty surprises yet beyond the best of genome reading... Fact sheet. First published : The Daily Telegraph , ...
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Elizabeth Bear
Link . [via SF Signal ] "This is a reprint anthology, so I am only reading material published between 1 January and 31 December 2010." "the submission deadline for this year’s book is 1 October 2010." Related : Works of Jonathan Strahan .
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Jonathan Lethem
Link . [via Jason Sanford ] List tells us which stories are currently nominated & how many votes have they got. Nominations have just opened & will be open for months - so this list will likely change drastically in days to come. Note : Only stories published in the US qualify. And ...
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Nebula Awards
Actually, his nominations for Nebula Awards 2009 (to be given sometime in 2010 to stories published in the US during later half of 2008 & during 2009) - so I suppose this is also his "best of 2009" list. [via SF Signal ] Related. "best of" lists . My "best of 2009" list (includes links to ...
TV
Jason O'Mara
Nebula Awards
Very good read, though based on a very old trope. But you probably need a few years experience reading the genre to like it; I know I could not have liked it 3 years ago. It begins with the feel of a paranoia story of Philip K Dick . But this is not a Dick-type story, going by what little I've ...
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Paul McAuley
Philip K. Dick
Data from last month's LCROSS probe has confirmed what was till now a suspicion. [via SF Signal ]
Gaming
Moon
Some neighborhood problems. It's now 11:15 pm; will post only if I can be free during next half hour.
Other
This is a collection 4 independent stories, each exploring the implications of a rather old trope - what would the world look like if stasis field closets - closed volumes of space where time could be made to stop for specified period of real time at the press of a button - were common place ...
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Richard Kelly
Mostly a pleasant read of 2 black teenage roaming musicians in the US - one of whom is "Buddha’s twin brother" Lalitchandra aka Larry! Larry remembers his previous incarnations, & we get treated to what it feels like to be a turtle who's about to turn into soup for human consumption, e.g. ...
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Richard Kelly
Note : His post doesn't include download links, but includes one line summaries & some statistical data about the magazine. Richard Foss's "Incarnation in the Delta"; download : Not read. Marie Brennan's "Letter Found In A Chest Belonging To The Marquis de Montseraille Following The Death ...
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Quotes from his interview with Charles Tan at SF Signal : Why sf?: "the play of ideas, the awareness that technology is doing something huge to us as a species." "Kelly Link taught me to take sentences seriously; she'd pick a harmless looking sentence in the story and then she'd chip away at ...
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Kelly Link
Two things make the generally sub-par series of stories collected here noteworthy: It probably inspired Lois McMaster Bujold's "Miles Vorkosigan" series. I've read only one Vorkosigan story - " The Mountains of Mourning ", but there is too much similarity in the fictional universes: feudal ...
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John W. Campbell
Analog
Got too ambitious. Had time enough for a post of a couple of paras, & took up a short story collection instead - & ran out of time. Should have one tonight, barring unusual circumstances.
Other
This one is a good read, from among the many stories that share its main trope: sentient alien parasites find an initially reluctant & then willing host in humans because of the ... sort of ... rent aliens are willing to pay. Story summary. Four men comprising the first human expedition to ...
