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bookviewcafe.com - 11/17/2008
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textileplanetp.jpg Immediately following Marla Gershe s nonexistent coffee
break at three in the afternoon, a policeman shot...
her through the mid-section with one of those newfangled xanthan guns. That simple act changed her life forever. Actually, her ...
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pbs.org - 11/18/2008
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Every year Locus Magazine , "The Magazine Of
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Field," publishes a year-in-review...
of the genre. This summation always includes a rundown of the circulation of the remaining speculative fiction magazines, sometimes referred ...
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MediaShift . Pulp Magazines Struggle to Survive in Wired ...
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philippinespeculativefiction.com - 11/13/2008
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Home Staff Contact Us About cover Table of
Contents Introduction by Charles Tan Six from Downtown by...
Dean Francis Alfar The Singer's Man by M. R. R. Arcega Keeping Time by FH Batacan Dreaming Valhalla by Douglas Candano The Sugilanon of Epefania's ...
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Philippine Speculative Fiction Sampler
bookslut.com - 11/4/2008
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November 2008 Paul Kincaid Science Fiction Skeptic Genre
at the End of Time There is a superb...
passage midway through Greg Bear s City at the End of Time in which our universe hits the end of time, rolls back and rolls in again like a wave crashing ...
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Genre at the End of Time
pyrsamples.blogspot.com - 11/25/2008
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Fast Forward 2 is an anthology of all
original, unthemed science fiction works, edited by Lou Anders,...
published by Pyr , and featuring stories from such names as Benjamin Rosenbaum & Cory Doctorow, Ian McDonald, Mike Resnick & Pat Cadigan, ...
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Fast Forward 2: Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Gambler"
sfsignal.com - 11/26/2008
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Many say that the best speculative fiction stories
are those with strong characters. But sometimes we run...
across characters that outshine the story. We asked this week's panel: Q: Who are the most memorable characters in science fiction, fantasy ...
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MIND MELD: Who are the Most Memorable Characters in ...
mightygodking.com - 11/3/2008
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I actually just re-read the Zahn trilogy a
couple of months back. It’s surprising how well it...
holds up; you have to assume it happens in a completely different continuity from the prequels for it to make any sense at all, but that’s easier than it ...
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MGK Versus His Adolescent Reading Habits, Part The Last
sfsignal.com - 11/24/2008
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s a segment from the 1977 SciFi Channel
show SF Vortex , in which Harlan Ellison, J....
Michael Straczynski, Herb Solow, and Yvonne Fern discuss the meaning of the terms "science fiction" and "SciFi". And the Harlan says: "SciFi is a debasement." ...
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Science Fiction vs. SciFi?
newscientist.com - 11/14/2008
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Favorite Science Fiction novel is "Who Goes There"
by John W. Campbell. The opening paragraph starts with...
the impossibility of a strong wind blowing at a temperature in the Arctic that won't support such an occurrence; an impossibility and progresses ...
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Science fiction special: The future of a genre - 12 ...
publishersweekly.com - 11/3/2008
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PW's Best Books of the Year by Louisa
Ermelino -- Publishers Weekly, 11/3/2008“May you live in interesting...
times” is a quote commonly attributed to Confucius, probably erroneously, but Robert F. Kennedy did use it in a speech in 1966, adding a rueful ...
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PW's Best Books of the Year - 11/3/2008
sfsignal.com - 11/13/2008
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REVIEW SUMMARY: For best results, ride the waves
of the plot and don't dip your feet into...
the waters of detail. MY RATING: 3 stars BRIEF SYNOPSIS: John Bandicut and his crew are the last hope to save the galaxy from destructive hyperspatial ...
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REVIEW: Sunborn by Jeffrey A. Carver
elizabethbear.com - 11/25/2008
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Shoggoths in Bloom Elizabeth Bear (First published in
Asimov's , March 2008) "Well, now, Professor Harding," the...
fisherman says, as his Bluebird skips across Penobscot Bay, "I don't know about that. The jellies don't trouble with us, and we don't ...
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Fiction - Shoggoths In Bloom
rudyrucker.com - 11/18/2008
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[Excerpts from my memoir, Nested Scrolls .] I
started getting mail from a younger writer in Texas...
called Bruce Sterling. He’d written glowing reviews of Spacetime Donuts and White Light in a weekly free newspaper in Austin—he was one of the very first ...
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Early Days of Cyberpunk
pyrsamples.blogspot.com - 11/6/2008
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Chris Roberson's Paragaea: A Planetary Romance is both
an homage to the planetary romances of Edgar Rice...
Burroughs and a sophisticated updating of same. Science Fiction Wee kly said, "t he illusion of being cast away in some exotic realm that ...
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"Ill Met in Elvera" by Chris Roberson
newyorker.com - 11/12/2008
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November 4th Dearest Chase, I am trying to
“feel” November, yours and mine. I’ll make an imaginary...
diorama, like something from grade school, an attempt to win a secret science fair of the heart: Janice and Chase’s November. A mind’s-eye miniature I ...
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Jonathan Lethem: "Lostronaut"
deadoftheday.blogspot.com - 11/20/2008
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A 2008/2007 Hugo Award nominee, 2007 Chesley Award
nominee and 2006 World Fantasy Award nominee, Lou Anders...
is the editorial director of Prometheus Books' science fiction imprint Pyr, as well as the anthologies Fast Forward 2 (Pyr, October 2008), ...
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Art Direction: Lou Anders
tor.com - 11/25/2008
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Before editors are editors, we are readers. And
as readers, we can get caught up in a...
writer’s words, works, and worlds, to the point where we set aside whatever we should be reading to indulge our imaginations by grabbing a new work by a ...
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Free e-book: Jane Lindskold’s The Buried Pyramid
eldritchdark.com - 11/30/2008
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The Salamandress Dariel Quiogue “She came to Alissar
on a ship of ebony and brass with an...
agate-eyed serpent for a figurehead, rowed by a hundred and forty mute… ” [Section: Tributes - Short Stories ] (29 November 2008) To Clark Ashton Smith ...
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Clark Ashton Smith - The Eldritch Dark
pseudopod.org - 11/7/2008
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By Trent Jamieson Read by Ben Phillips Some
places you visit in dreams again and again. Some...
places visit you. Fourteen and it found me. I stood knee deep in grass, brittle, yellowing, summer grass. The citadel rose above me, its ...
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Pseudopod 115: Clockwork
ofblog.blogspot.com - 11/3/2008
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Ever since I read Crystal Rain two years
ago, I have paid close attention to Caribbean-born author...
Tobias Buckell's stories. I have read each of his three published novels to date (and I hope to have a review up in the very near future of his third ...
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New Interview with Tobias Buckell
