tor.com - 11/18/2008
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Tom Shippey, who isn’t an idiot, called Neal Stephenson’s Anathem “high fantasy” in the Times . So in my second reading of Anathem in the two months since it came out, I was trying to figure out what he meant when he used that term about a book that includes spaceships and the scientific ...
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SF Signal —
... Interviews and Profiles: Michael Cassutt profiles Michael Chricton. @Bibliophile Stalker: Stephen Hunt (The Court of the Air). The Dead Robots' Society podcast-interviews Tobias Buckell. @The Dragon Page Cover to Cover: Lawrence Watt-Evans.
Author reviews Author: Paul Di Filippo reviews Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card. Jo Walton re-examines Neal Stephenson's Anathem.
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I sent Boskone both the DDB pictures and asked them to choose. I really appreciate everyone's input. The sun is shining with that inimitable "early morning below freezing" light. It's instantly recognisable, but it would be very hard to describe. San Francisco Chronicle mini review and recommendation of Half a Crown in their Holiday Reading section. Very interesting article about Tor, SF, and the Prometheus Award in the Libertarian magazine Reason. I was interviewed for this ages ago. Recent posts of mine on Tor.com Madeleine Robins, Cyteen, Anathem, Beyond America, Fantasy of ...
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