telegraph.co.uk - 9/23/2008
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Iago, Quilp, Mrs Coulter, Alec d'Urbeville... Do you agree with our critics' choice of the 50 foulest fiends in literature?
watchingheroes.com - 9/17/2008
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watchingheroes.com —
USA Today has just published an article about
Season 3 of Heroes . Basically, it just sums
up facts we already know. What really interested me was the accompanying photo gallery: Meet some of the escapees, pictured from left: Ken Lally ...
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First Good Look at the New Villains
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SF Signal —
... stories @Strange Horizons: "Cowboy Angel" by Samantha Cope (Part 2). Audio fiction @PodCastle: "The Fable of the Tyrannosaurus Rex" by Peter S. Beagle, Read by Stephen Eley. Free Excerpts @ Pyr: The Stormcaller: Book One of the Twilight Reign by Tom Lloyd and Going Under by Justina Robson.
Lists: Several sf/f characters make The Telegraph's list of The 50 greatest villains in literature. [via Lit Lists] @Weird Photo Reports: 10 Amazing Old ...
There Once Was a Man from Wiscasset...
When You Stop Believing in It, It Doesn't Go Away —
... , ably overseen by Hank Garfield. Filth and humor equally encouraged. And your List of the Day is from the Telegraph: The 50 Greatest Villains in Literature . posted by Alex Irvine at ...
50 Greatest Villains In Literature
When Gravity Fails —
The Telegraph compiles a dastardly list of literature's 50 greatest bad dudes, and there's a few genre authors mentioned from Mervyn Peake to David Lindsay to Philip Pullman. ...
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