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pyrsamples.blogspot.com - 2/10/2009
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Chris Roberson's End of the Century is a
novel of the distant past, the unimaginable future, and...
the search for the Holy Grail. Set in the city of London, the narrative is interlaced between three ages, in which a disparate group of heroes, ...
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End of the Century by Chris Roberson
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manybooks.net - 2/10/2009
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Buos was chastising Laloi as they sped through
the ionosphere of the green planet. But like the...
airy creature she was, Laloi ignored the criticism and rippled zephyr-like through a clump of daffodils when they completed their descent. "So pretty," ...
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maryrobinettekowal.com - 2/10/2009
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I’ll start with the important stuff. Shades of
Milk and Honey, my Jane Austen with magic novel,...
has sold to Liz Gorinsky at Tor in a two-book deal. My fabulous agent, Jennifer Jackson, and I have been sitting on this news for a little over a ...
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Novel + Sold = Best Birthday present EVER
scifiwire.com - 2/10/2009
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No doubt you've noticed that it's awards season.
We've had the Golden Globes, the Screen Actors Guild...
trophies and, soon after you read this, the Oscars. And, of more immediate relevance, the Nebula Awards of the SF Writers of America in April. ...
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Columnist Michael Cassutt recalls the sci-fi moments ...
strangehorizons.com - 2/10/2009
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FICTION: Obedience, by Brenna Yovanoff She checked the
cuffs of her jacket, tucked them deep into the...
tops of her gloves. Outside, pale hands seemed to float, palms flat against the windows. They were laughing, a storm of high-pitched giggles.
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mindflights.com - 2/10/2009
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When her dial-fiddling resolved the image from Endeavor,
shock drove Mriba’s crest flat to her skull. Overnight,...
the human plague had wrecked Lauren Bates, kindling fever-blotches in her cheeks and pricking the whites of her eyes until they bled. A ...
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MindFlights - A Native Soul
bigpulp.com - 2/10/2009
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by Amanda Walczesky In a small bubble out
in space, a lone man walked around and around...
in a loping circle. There was a general hum surrounding him, something hissing like a garden hose not twisted tight enough, or a balloon expelling it's last ...
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To Know by Amanda Walczesky
bigpulp.com - 2/10/2009
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by Jonathan S. Pembrook To you who reads
this journal: let me start by saying that I...
hope it finds you in good health and safety--or as much safety as one can find in this God-forsaken land. I say this now: regardless of their friendship, no matter ...
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Regrets Of A Conquistador by Jonathan S. Pembrook
bigpulp.com - 2/10/2009
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by Stephanie Scarborough Zombies. They'll be the death
of me. I live in the radiation-laced cut-rate-Hollywood town...
of Newfield, which has been plagued with radioactive zombies for the last 60 years, and I'm the only resident with the cajones to deal ...
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The Other Job by Stephanie Scarborough
barnesandnoble.com - 2/10/2009
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If at any given moment short fiction is
not actually experiencing a Golden Age, it is always...
seen to be dying. Critics, authors, publishers, editors, readers -- even sociologists! -- engage (or should that be indulge?) in incessant hand-wringing and ...
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The Speculator: Four Anthologies
manybooks.net - 2/10/2009
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ual endurance. As she neared the island, she
saw that it rose sheer from the water in...
castlelike cliffs. She reached them at last but found neither ledge to stand on below the water, nor to cling to above. She swam on, following the curve of the ...
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The Devil in Iron by Robert E. Howard - Free eBook
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io9.com - 2/10/2009
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Are we finally going to get a posthuman
mass culture? With movies like Surrogates and Avatar hitting...
theaters later this year, it may be now or never. Both Surrogates and Avatar feature posthuman heroes, in very different ways. And television's Lost ...
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Posthumans Go Hollywood! (Maybe.) [Posthumans]
sfsignal.com - 2/10/2009
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It's time for the 2009 edition of a
question that comes up on SFSignal every so often....
The other day, a collegue of mine recently asked me what five sci-fi books I could recommend to her. She had read what she considered to be some classic authors ...
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What SF would you recommend to a non-reader?
publishersweekly.com - 2/10/2009
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by Jim Milliot -- Publishers Weekly, 2/10/2009 8:27:00
AM In a dramatic turnaround, HarperCollins announced this morning...
that it is closing its Collins division and integrating its operations within different businesses in the General Books Group. As ...
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Harper Closing Collins; Other Layoffs Planned - ...
jim-butcher.com - 2/10/2009
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The Warden Morgan has been accused of treason
against the Wizards of the White Council--and there's only...
one, final punishment for that crime. He's on the run, wants his name cleared, and needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog. Someone ...
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Butcher.Com: Books - Dresden Files - Book 11
oldcharliebrown.livejournal.com - 2/10/2009
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Sean Wallace has acquired the Prime Books imprint
from Wildside Press, LLC. and will launch it as...
an independent publishing house in May 2009. (This acquisition includes Fantasy Magazine). Distribution will be handled nationally by Diamond Book ...
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Live Journal: Press Release - Acquisition of Prime Books
movies.yahoo.com - 2/10/2009
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Nick Nolte & Julia Roberts I Love Trouble
- 1994 In the early 90's, Julia came out...
of nowhere to become the biggest female star in the world. Nick was named People Magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1992. So why not pair them together in a screwball ...
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The 10 Most Mismatched Movie Couples on Yahoo! Movies
sffaudio.com - 2/10/2009
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Barely Literate is a new podcast book club
discussing novels and books in and outside of the...
SFF genre. So far it seems like a cross between the Science Fiction Book Review Podcast and The Kick Ass Mystic Ninjas podcast . Before you listen, be forewarned, each program is full of spoilers. ...
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Barely Literate (a podcast book club)
pyrsf.blogspot.com - 2/10/2009
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Over at Boing-Boing they've just called wraps on
their 'Undying love in ≤150 characters' competition (the challenge...
was to write a love poem in no more than 150 characters: "this is a contest where speed and cleverness beat diligence ... remember that ...
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Short short stories
wisb.blogspot.com - 2/10/2009
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Recently in my South African Literature course my
professor, in talking about Nadine Gordimer's July's People, mentioned...
that the story, while not based on any sort of reality that we understand to exist, is also not a science fiction story because it doesn't contain aliens or spaceships or ...
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Aliens and Spaceships Do Not a Science Fiction Make
