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strangehorizons.com - 1/5/2009
2008 In Review
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We asked our reviewers to pick their SF-related highs and lows of 2008—books, films, tv, anything. This is what they said.
vectoreditors.wordpress.com - 12/30/2008
Top Five Books of 2008
— vectoreditors.wordpress.com — There’s still a few books I hope to get through before award nomination time (notably The Quiet... War and Half a Crown ), but this is my list of the top five of books I read in 2008 which were actually published in 2008. 1. The Gone-Away World ... (more) Top Five Books of 2008

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The Best of 2008, Redux
Torque Control — ... Following on from Liz’s two lists of her best 2008 reads, here are some more for you to peruse. Strange Horizons review of the year ReadySteadyBook books of the year symposium; I am particularly taken by China Mieville’s description of this book as a “crossbreed of petro-apocalyptic philosophy and post-genre horror fiction” Abigail Nussbaum’s short stories and best reads of 2008 Big Dumb Object’s picks Martin Lewis’ book ...

Flogging the Wares
14theditch — ... Engines, will appear in AudioText's The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction audio anthology.    Doug Lain on the title story of my recent collection, "The Drowned Life"  http://douglain.livejournal.com/659597.html From Observations From the Balcony: http://www.mysterybookspot.com/brianlindenmuth/?p=940 2008 In Review @ Strange Horizons (scroll down): http://www.strangehorizons.com/reviews/2009/01/2008_in_review.shtml Scott Edelman on The ...

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