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locusmag.com - 7/13/2009
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Locus publisher, editor, and co-founder Charles N. Brown,
72, died peacefully in his sleep July 12, 2009...
on his way home from Readercon. Charles Nikki Brown was born June 24, 1937 in Brooklyn NY, where he grew up. He attended the City College of New ...
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Charles N. Brown, 1937-2009
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punkadiddle.blogspot.com - 7/18/2009
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Dear Science Fiction Fandom I wanted to have
a word about the Hugos. Science Fiction Fandom, these...
are your awards: the shortlists chosen and voted for by you. And because I too am a fan (though without Hugo voting privileges) they are my awards. ...
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Hugos 2009
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theclockworkcentury.com - 7/12/2009
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Welcome to the official webpage of The Clockwork
Century, an alternate-history world setting created by Cherie Priest....
Here, it is 1880 (or thereabouts). The Civil War is still underway, drawn out by English interference, a different transportation ...
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Engines of Destruction
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 7/2/2009
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Tiago would normally have taken his cut of
the picked pockets and stopped right here at the...
Seaside Plaza. On the very edge, past the vendors on the cobblestone sea walk, Tiago would sit with his legs over the rocky sea wall and look out over the harbor. Today he only detoured through [...]
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Placa del Fuego by Tobias S. Buckell
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 7/2/2009
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Editors are advocates—book advocates. They are champions of
the books they edit and the authors they work...
with. They are, as Chris Schluep of Ballantine/Villard/Del Rey said, "both steward and cheerleader for the book and author." Below, fourteen book editors talk about what it is that ...
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Dirty Hands and Invisible Words: Speculative Fiction ...
jeffvandermeer.com - 7/6/2009
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J.M. McDermott argues that the non-realistic, near-fantastical approach
to crisis in literary fiction bothers him, whereas the...
non-realistic, near-fantastical approach to crisis in fantasy doesn’t bother him. Larry from OF Blog of the Fallen ...
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War of All Against All: Realism vs Fabulism? Er, No…
strangehorizons.com - 7/6/2009
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Locus Online 's "Notable Books" By Valentin D.
Ivanov 6 July 2009 If you have ever browsed...
the infinite shelves of books by Robert Jordan, you have surely asked yourself when the tide of fantasy will completely overwhelm the bookstores. And if you are ...
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Strange Horizons Articles: A Statistical Study of Locus ...
ellen-datlow.livejournal.com - 7/8/2009
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Prime Books is bringing out an anthology with
a sampling of the stories I edited and published...
at OMNI Online, Event Horizon, and SCIFICTION. The Book will be coming out as a trade paperback in February 2010. I saw a cover treatment in June ...
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Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction and Fantasy
nytimes.com - 7/16/2009
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nytimes.com —
Jack Vance, described by his peers as “a
major genius” and “the greatest living writer of science...
fiction and fantasy,” has been hidden in plain sight for as long as he has been publishing — six decades and counting. Yes, he has won Hugo, Nebula and ...
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The Genre Artist
sfscope.com - 7/21/2009
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Of all the Hugo Awards given for professional
fiction, a remarkable number have wound up in the...
hands of remarkably few...
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Hugo Award (fiction) winners, by number of wins
washingtonpost.com - 7/22/2009
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washingtonpost.com —
Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or
other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from...
the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
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Kim Stanley Robinson -- Exploring Space Can Help Us ...
fact.org - 7/12/2009
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Aaron Allston Fundraiser and Auction Austin, TX --
A fundraiser and auction to benefit the Aaron Allston...
Donation Fund will be held on Sunday, July 19, from 1-5 p.m. at Arbor A in San Gabriel Park, 445 E. Morrow, Georgetown, TX. The Aaron Allston ...
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Austin Texas Science Fiction Book Club Convention
clarkesworldmagazine.com - 7/2/2009
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The crow's talons gouged new gashes into Jupiter's
enamel as the orrery revolved a clockwork orbit beneath...
him. Gaslights incandesced from the base of the carnival booth, projecting the solar system's rotations onto the canvas dome above the crow's head. Light strobed into his eyes each time ...
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On the Lot and In the Air by Lisa Hannett
wired.com - 7/2/2009
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wired.com —
Image by marceatsworld via Flickr If you joined
us yesterday for Part I of my interview with...
Alan Dean Foster, you learned about his writing schedule and method. Today, learn about Foster’s experience writing the novelization for the most ...
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Lunch With Alan Dean Foster, Part II: The Star Trek Book
omnivoracious.com - 7/16/2009
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(Ann VanderMeer, fiction editor for Weird Tales, preparing
to sample books and beer...) Regular readers of Omnivoracious...
may remember that last year we asked writers from Arianna Huffington to Michael Chabon what beer would go best with their current ...
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Stone Brewing's 13th Anniversary Ale: Scenes from a ...
spiralgalaxyreviews.blogspot.com - 7/3/2009
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Hi Everyone! I'm calling on the hive mind
of awesomeness out there to help me with my...
next ICFA paper. I've got an idea for a combination of two of my favorite things: science fiction and pattern recognition algorithms. Here's the idea: I feed a whole bunch of science fiction short stories into ...
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Help Needed!
humangenreproject.com - 7/8/2009
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The Human Genre Project is a collection of
new writing in very short forms short stories, flash...
fictions, reflections, poems inspired by genes and genomics. Some pieces, though not all, relate to a specific gene. This writing is arranged and ...
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The Human Genre Project
theswivet.blogspot.com - 7/13/2009
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Aaron Allston is best known for the long
string of New York Times-bestselling Star Wars novels that...
he's written for Del Rey Books. He's also a game designer and an independent filmmaker. I know him as an incredibly sweet guy who tells good jokes, ...
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Help Aaron Allston out with his medical bills, please!
charles-tan.blogspot.com - 7/13/2009
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Every Tuesday, I'll have an interview posted. A
2009/2008/2007 Hugo Award nominee, 2009/2007 Chesley Award nominee and...
2006 World Fantasy Award nominee, Lou Anders is the editorial director of Prometheus Books' science fiction imprint Pyr, as ...
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Interview: Lou Anders
adventuresinscifipublishing.com - 7/14/2009
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James Enge, author of the excellent Blood of
Ambrose, joins us to discuss Leiber vs. Tolkein fantasy,...
massive fantasy epics, and his beef with H.G. Wells. Did you read my review of Blood of Ambrose?
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Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing - 'AISFP 79 - James Enge'
