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Grand Weirdinian and Kaiser of Weirdside. Author and reviewer of weird and speculative art. Web Site: Musings from the Weirdside Claimed Blog: The Weirdside 42Blips Member since June 12, 2009 |
adamcallaway.blogspot.com - 38 hours ago
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I've decided that I'll post every one of
my personalized rejection letters. So, for my 47th rejection...
overall, here is my latest personalized rejection. Bust Down the Doors and Eat All the Chickens - 11/25/09 - How to Repurpose Your Pets! This was fun and I thought it might appeal to Bradley's ...
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adamcallaway.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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This is a little early, but in quiet
anticipation of my 50th rejection (I'm on number 46...
right now), I decided to post every personalized rejection letter I've gotten (with piece title, date, and mag of course). When you see that someone took the time to say just a few words about why they ...
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Personalized Rejection Letters
adamcallaway.blogspot.com - 22 days ago
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Buy a dozen copies here. I haven't read
a good contemporary space opera in a while. Modern...
space operas, to me, began to seem more like upper level quantum physics courses instead of action packed, character driven adventures in space. My introduction to science fiction were books like ...
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The Quiet War by Paul McAuley (Pyr)
adamcallaway.blogspot.com - 10/1/2009
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Walter Moers, you are the mythical beast that
I aspire to someday be. Your Orm flows like...
the honey from a busted beehive in the Sahara. The world at large owes you a lifedebt of gratitude for your imparting even a minuscule amount of your enormous creativity on our none-so-worthy eyes. In a ...
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100th Post Weirdapalooza Part 3: The Alchemaster's ...
adamcallaway.blogspot.com - 9/8/2009
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For the second of three parts to my
100th Post Weirdapalooza, I have a very entertaining and...
informative interview with Johne Cook, one of the Overlords of the stellar space opera e-zine, Ray Gun Revival . It exudes adventure, awe, style, and character. Did I mention that you get all of this ...
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100th Post Weirdapalooza Part 2: The Ray Gun Revival ...
adamcallaway.blogspot.com - 9/3/2009
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Happy coincidence? Karma awarding the loyal Weirdinians? Whatever
the reason, I accidentally ordered a second copy of...
The Alchemaster's Apprentice by Walter Moers (reviewed in full soon, but it is dark comic fantasy awesomeness in brief) and, instead of going through the hassle of getting a ...
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100th Post Weirdapalooza Part 1: The Contest
adamcallaway.blogspot.com - 9/1/2009
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So, in accordance with the ancient decree handed
down to me through umpteen to the power of...
three generations of Grand Weirdinians, I will bequeath a name to Johne in honor of his residency in the Weirdside. Johne, you are now Lord Skype-Irrate, or ...
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Johne's Name from the Weirdside
adamcallaway.blogspot.com - 8/29/2009
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First, the review. “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red
Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” by Eugie Foster Each...
morning is a decision. Should I put on the brown mask or the blue? Should I be a tradesman or an assassin today? That's the opening sentence of one of the most creative and ...
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A Review, A Preview, An Acceptance, and A Progress Report
adamcallaway.blogspot.com - 8/28/2009
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Entropy is my favorite area of science, bar
none. I love the whole law explaining the increase...
of disorder in the universe. It governs everything we do, from breaking a glass to dying. Death, in reality, is just an increase in entropy. Entropy is of such interest to me that I have an entire ...
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Entropy = Indian Giver
adamcallaway.blogspot.com - 8/26/2009
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So I was doing the exercise thing yesterday
and needed about a forty minute short story to...
entertain me while I was pumping the iron, so I went to the list of Starshipsofa productions and selected Shark God vs. Octopus God by Jeff Vandermeer . Boy, was my mind blown. I love being entertained. I ...
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Shark God vs. Octopus God by Jeff Vandermeer
adamcallaway.blogspot.com - 8/26/2009
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I really like Paolo Bacigalupi's short work. He
writes in a unique style and develops ideas and...
characters very well. That being said, the premise of The Windup Girl (Nightshade Books, 2009) , being one of the inaugural Greenpunk novels (for a cool article on Greenpunk, check out this article on ...
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The Windup Girl. A Book I am Insanely Excited About
adamcallaway.blogspot.com - 8/24/2009
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I was just thinking of all the things
that people have not tapped in the (insert clever...
title)punk genres. Why not have something akin to steampunk in Roman/Greek times with tons of pulley and lever and wooden devices, like a whole herd of Helepoli (like in one of my recent twit fics)? Why not ...
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Timepunk
adamcallaway.blogspot.com - 8/23/2009
adamcallaway.blogspot.com - 8/23/2009
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M'Fiancee and I went on a Twin Cities
adventure this Thursday. We had Jason Mraz concert tickets...
and decided to make a day of it. First we went to the Como Zoo , and rainy weather be cursed! It was a blast anyway. At the Lake Superior Zoo, we don't have gorillas, and that alone was worth the ...
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Twin Cities Excursion
adamcallaway.blogspot.com - 8/19/2009
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A friend of mine finally convinced M'Fiancee and
I to watch this movie. We were like, "What...
is it about?" And he told us, which left us scratching our heads even more. "And it's clean?" (We only watch movies with no nudity or sex in them. Strange for a couple of young 'uns like us, right?) And ...
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Lars and the Real Girl
