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Ray Gun Revival
raygunrevival.com — SCI FI Weekly Ray Gun Revival was Site of the Week 13 June 2007 at SciFi.com Welcome... to Ray Gun Revival Glad You Made It If you're here, you've probably heard some of the rumblings or followed a breadcrumb trail of some sort. What is Ray Gun Revival ... (more) Ray Gun Revival
Sample Chapters
pyrsf.com — Original Web site design Jason Lecht Visit the Pyr Blog... (more) Sample Chapters

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Fast Ships, Black Sails
Fast Ships, Black Sails
blog.wired.com — Getting tired of the whole steampunk scene? Getting warmed up to the whole talking like a pirate... thing? Ready to try out a new genre? Well, my friend, the fates have arranged upcoming reading material just for you. Just as... (more) Fast Ships, Black Sails
Living through Interesting Times
antipope.org — We are living in interesting times; in fact, they're so interesting that it is not currently possible... to write near-future SF. I don't believe this is an over-generalization. It takes time — weeks at a minimum, more usually months —... (more) Living through Interesting Times
Welcome to Labyrinthine, the official website of Sarah Monette
sarahmonette.com — I'm a novelist and short-story writer; I work primarily in the genres of fantasy and horror, with... the occasional foray into science fiction. I have a Ph.D. in English literature, but you don't need to worry about that. I don't use it for anything. ... (more) Welcome to Labyrinthine, the official website of Sarah ...
Fast Forward 2
pyrsf.com — 359 pp ISBN: 978-1-59102-692-1 Paperback (6" x 9") $15 October 2008 Cover Illustration: ©John Picacio www.johnpicacio.com When... Fast Forward 1 debuted in February 2007, it marked the first major all- original, all-SF anthology series to appear in some ... (more) Fast Forward 2
Michael Dirda - Michael Dirda on 'Anathem'
Michael Dirda - Michael Dirda on 'Anathem'
washingtonpost.com — While thinking about Neal Stephenson's Anathem, I found myself imagining that I was one of those cartoon... heroes suddenly confronted by a moral quandary. On one shoulder sits a little red devil, with a tiny pitchfork; on the other, a cherubic angel in ... (more) Michael Dirda - Michael Dirda on 'Anathem'
7th Son OBSIDIAN showcases content from podcasters and listeners
7th Son OBSIDIAN showcases content from podcasters and listeners
jchutchins.net — 40K listeners have listened to the podcast trilogy 7th Son by JC Hutchins, covering 7 clones trying... to catch the murderer that they were cloned from. Hutchins collects content from top podcaster talent and listeners to create the ground-breaking follow-up, 7th Son OBSIDIAN. (more) 7th Son OBSIDIAN showcases content from podcasters and ...
Nebula Report: Preliminary Qualifiers Aug 08 | The Nebula Awards
nebulaawards.com — Guest Blog by on August 31 2008 The following works have all qualified for the Preliminary Ballot... and will be under consideration for the Final Ballot. Please refer to the Rules section for a more detailed explanation. NOVELS: Daniel Abraham, A ... (more) Nebula Report: Preliminary Qualifiers Aug 08 | The ...
Projects: Clock
longnow.org — The 10,000 Year Clock The idea to build a monument scale, multi-millennial, all mechanical clock as an... icon to long term thinking came from computer scientist Danny Hillis and was published in the form of an email to friends. Later it was followed up ... (more) Projects: Clock
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Brian Francis Slattery: editor of public policy and economics publications
bfslattery.com — ello. You've reached the website of Brian Francis Slattery, editor, writer, and occasional musician. As a freelance... editor, I specialize in publications about economics, public policy, and international affairs. Clients include the United States ... (more) Brian Francis Slattery: editor of public policy and ...
Michael Swanwick Online
Michael Swanwick Online
michaelswanwick.com — Welcome. This site was created with my approval and cooperation, but all the work was done by... Vlatko Juric-Kokic, Keith Brooke, Peter Tillman, and Nicholas Gevers, and any credit belongs to them, particularly to Vlatko, who did an astonishing amount ... (more) Michael Swanwick Online
Gerrold Dot Com
gerrold.com — Progress Report! Bit by bit, piece by piece. Rome didn't fall in a day either, you know.... This is the working template for the new site. If you're checking in regularly, you can see we're experimenting. (As much as we wanted a dramatic background ... (more) Gerrold Dot Com
Hollywood's 5 Saddest Attempts at Feminism
Hollywood's 5 Saddest Attempts at Feminism
cracked.com — Hollywood has a dilemma. Its blockbusters are all written by men, but to make the real money,... they have to sell some tickets to females, too. What to do? Let a woman write a blockbuster? Ha! Of course not. Just insert a feisty woman into the story who ... (more) Hollywood's 5 Saddest Attempts at Feminism
Neal Stephenson Talks to io9 About Religion, Aliens, and Spoilers
Neal Stephenson Talks to io9 About Religion, Aliens, and Spoilers
io9.com — Today Neal Stephenson's long-awaited new novel Anathem hits the bookstores. We've already told you that this tale... of science monks on another planet is cool, action-packed, and thought-provoking -- probably one of the best novels of Stephenson's ... (more) Neal Stephenson Talks to io9 About Religion, Aliens, and ...
John Joseph Adams Wants Your Brains
John Joseph Adams Wants Your Brains
tor.com — A week ago, I posted about a few anthologies that John Joseph Adams had edited. At the... time, I mentioned that his zombie anthology, The Living Dead, was soon to be released. In this instance, soon means today. But who’s in the book you ask? Well, there might be one or two names you ... (more) John Joseph Adams Wants Your Brains
Video - Readings by Neal Stephenson
nealstephenson.com — Video - Readings by Neal Stephenson (more) Video - Readings by Neal Stephenson
Reflection's Edge
reflectionsedge.com — Lullaby of the Ages by Matthew Kressel (science fiction/fantasy) A mother goes to great lengths to make... a world fit for her children, while unseen forces threaten from galactic deeps. She has millennia to change the world - but who ever said that was ... (more) Reflection's Edge
The Second Coming of Steampunk: An Interview with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer < Books
The Second Coming of Steampunk: An Interview with Ann and Jeff VanderMeer < Books
popmatters.com — Jason B. Jones It’s fair to say that steampunk is enjoying an odd sort of second coming... these days. Originally a literary movement that mashed cyberpunk-style themes with speculative rewritings of Victorian culture, steampunk is now equally a ... (more) The Second Coming of Steampunk: An Interview with Ann ...