CORY DOCTOROW: RADICAL PRESENTISM

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tinhousebooks.com - 23 days ago

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Tin House #41 should be hitting your mailboxes or newsstand any day now. The dual theme is Hope/Dread (our designer, the fabulous Janet Parker, created stunning covers for each). In the dread corner, look for Nick Cave, Ander Monson, Alex Lemon, Matthea Harvey, and other doomsayers. Flying the ...

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Cory Doctorow on science fiction writing – the present and the future http://bit.ly/3aq29O 12 days ago

Lit mag Tin House sucks up to genre w/ C Doctorow essay. Lit writers are $crambling to hop on the genre wagon. http://tinyurl.com/yhdcsqj 14 days ago

The future is now? According to Cory Doctorow, & other SF writers,ie. Orwell, it's always been about the present: http://bit.ly/1evmFc 15 days ago

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Radical Presentism in Tin House
Cory Doctorow's craphound.com — ... unrecognizable to us in their emotions and motivations. Read one way, it’s a sober prediction of the curve of history spiking infinity-ward in the near future (and many futurists will solemnly assure you that this is the case); read another way, it’s just the anxiety of a generation of winners in the technology wars, now confronted by a new generation whose fluidity with technology is so awe-inspiring that it appears we have been out-evolved by our own progeny. CORY DOCTOROW: RADICAL PRESENTISM

Radical Presentism
Cory Doctorow's craphound.com — Tin House

November 5, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — ... Sawyer (podcast). Advice/Articles Will Hindmarch on Eldritch Visions of Cthalloween. Mark C Newton on Thoughts on the Dying Earth genre. Caren Gussoff on The next big punking. Stomping on Yeti on The Next Big Thing? The FuturePast. Jennifer Jackson on unsolicited manuscripts. Guy Hasson on Making His Feature Film Debut (part two). Cory Doctorow on Radical Presentism. (via Locus Online) GeekDad on 2009 Holiday Gift Guide #1: ...

SF Tidbits for 11/5/09
SF Signal — ... by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. New SF&F Translation Awards Launched From now until December 31st: Golden Grypon's 2-for1 sale! Articles & Lists Will Hindmarch on Eldritch Visions of Cthalloween. Mark C Newton on Thoughts on the Dying Earth genre. Caren Gussoff on The next big punking. Guy Hasson on Making His Feature Film Debut (part two). Cory Doctorow on Radical Presentism. (via Locus Online) GeekDad on 2009 Holiday Gift Guide #1: ...

The Link Hand of God
Torque Control — ... Roberts on The Black Mirror, an anthology of German sf; also on The Resistance, by Muse Nader Elhefnawy on the rise and fall of the military techno-thriller at IROSF Richard Larson on House of Windows by John Langan and Slights by Kaaron Warren Seems like there was an interesting panel on steampunk at World Fantasy Convention; see here, here and here. Cory Doctorow on “radical presentism“; discussion at Making Light. Elizabeth Hand reviews ...