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secure.locusmag.com - 2/3/2009
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Here is the online version of the 39th
annual Locus Awards ballot, covering works that appeared in...
2008. You may vote for up to five works in each category. In each position, you may either make a selection from the drop-down list OR enter a write-in ...
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Locus Online: 2009 Locus Poll and Survey Ballot
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literary.erictmarin.com - 2/3/2009
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Excerpted from Every Child’s Solar Encyclopedia: Myths and
Legends of the Solar System (Babel: Woelfle, 452). What...
follows is the story of Eko and Narkiss as told by Arion Overture, famed in the third century for preserving the oral traditions of ...
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Lone Star Stories - Eko and Narkiss by Jeremy Adam Smith
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tor.com - 2/3/2009
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One of the benefits of working as a
book publicist is that I get to spend time...
with a lot of talented authors. For a longtime science fiction and fantasy fan like me, getting the opportunity to rub elbows with some of the field’s best and brightest ...
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James Morrow Talks Hiroshima, Giant Lizards and the ...
strangehorizons.com - 2/3/2009
charles-tan.blogspot.com - 2/3/2009
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Every Tuesday, I'll have an interview posted. Matthew
Cheney's work has been published by English Journal, One...
Story , Web Conjunctions , Strange Horizons , Failbetter.com , Ideomancer , Pindeldyboz , Rain Taxi , Locus , The Internet Review of ...
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Interview: Matthew Cheney
reflectionsedge.com - 2/3/2009
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All that Glitters by Diane Gallant Auntie Mina,
if she had been alive to hear the story,...
would have said that I was brave to do what I did. Brave – like my mother, though I never knew her. But Auntie Mina was always saying how brave my mother was. ...
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Reflection's Edge
hairygreeneyeball.blogspot.com - 2/3/2009
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As far as I'm able to tell from
what research is available to me, "In the Scarlet...
Star" by Jack Williamson , has been reprinted only once, in the 1951 anthology, EVERY BOY'S BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION, edited by Donald A. Wollheim. My scans of the ...
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In the Scarlet Star
sffaudio.com - 2/3/2009
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Orson Scott Card’s latest aural essay is up
on Audible.com. Card talks about Ursula K. Le Guin’s...
first novel Roccanon’s World and the Blackstone Audio audiobook of it that’s narrated by Stefan Rudnicki! Go check it out ...
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Orson Scott Card Selects #8 - Rocannon’s World by ...
scifiwire.com - 2/3/2009
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SF/fantasy author Chris Roberson says that the seeds
of his latest novel, End of the Century ,...
were planted nearly two decades ago, when he came across a reference to parallels among the four suits of the Tarot, the Grail Hallows of Arthurian legend ...
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End of the Century seeks the secret myth behind King Arthur
fantasyhotlist.blogspot.com - 2/3/2009
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Many thanks to the folks at Orbit for
letting me be the first one to post this!:-)...
Personally, I think it looks fantastic! Abercrombie's Best Served Cold will be published on both sides of the Atlantic this summer. For more info about this ...
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US cover art for Joe Abercrombie's BEST SERVED COLD
aidanmoher.com - 2/3/2009
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Further cementing the fact that American published just
don’t get it when it comes to cover art,...
Pat has unveiled the cover art for the US edition of Joe Abercrombie’s Best Served Cold Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie Compare this with the UK ...
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A Dribble of Ink » Blog Archive » Cover ...
fantasybookreviewer.blogspot.com - 2/3/2009
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Pat just posted the cover image of the
US edition of Best Served Cold by Joe Abercrombie....
I was going to post both pics here to compare, but I won't rip off Pat since it was a big deal to get for him to get it first. After seeing the cover those of ...
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Fantasy Book News & Reviews: Best Not Served: What ...
apexbookcompany.com - 2/3/2009
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by Sarah Brandel After reading Sara M. Harvey’s
novella The Convent of the Pure this weekend (you...
can pre-order your very own copy here ), I spent a while thinking about steampunk stories in general, and how their aesthetics, attitudes, and ...
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Monday Debates: Steampunk vs. Cyberpunk
apexbookcompany.com - 2/3/2009
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Official Press Release Apex Magazine is delighted to
announce that starting with the February issue, they will...
be offering a PDF version of the magazine in addition to the website version. “When we made the step from a print digest to an ...
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Apex Magazine to begin PDF edition
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io9.com - 2/3/2009
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When is science fiction not science fiction? When
it's literature, according to British journalist David Barnett ,...
who's noticed that British authors aren't necessarily happy to call their books "science fiction" if they can help it. Writing for the ...
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UK Lit Wrestles With Sci-Fi Tag [Whither Sci-fi?]
tor.com - 2/3/2009
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I have an unhealthy addiction to the end
of the world, and it seems I’m not alone...
(see posts 18/01 Post-Apocalyptic: The Past and the Future and 26/01 Geek Survival Guide: tips you may never need ). I write about it (you can read extracts from my ...
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Addicted to Armageddon
