charles-tan.blogspot.com - 5/20/2009
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Every Wednesday, I have an essay or feature article on any topic that catches my fancy! Roughly three ago, I didn't know who Jeff VanderMeer was (and for that matter, I didn't know who Jeffrey Ford was a few years back--what is it with the J's?). The first I had heard of him was through the ...
mikebrotherton.com - 5/27/2009
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mikebrotherton.com —
It’s the time of the year when I
start thinking about the schedule of activities for the...
Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop for Writers . Most of the things we’ve done have been very popular and successful, but there was one controversial ...
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Communicating with Aliens
charles-tan.blogspot.com - 5/19/2009
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Every Monday, I'll be doing spoiler-free, bite-sized book/magazine
reviews. Shriek: An Afterword is Jeff VanderMeer's second novel...
set in his Ambergris cosmology. There's a lot of elements with regards to the book that I want to talk about so ...
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Book/Magazine Review: Shriek: An Afterword by Jeff ...
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Strangeness in the Mail…and Elsewhere
Ecstatic Days —
... got to be a story behind those.” Points to the giant blow-up penguin and the huge dragon head. Me: “We’ve got a friend in Australia….sent us penguin…penguin wars…then bought dragon head…at daughter’s place but now we have it. Er, at night people outside think they’re humans.” A kind of suspicious, confused look from cat sitter…but that’s not what I want to talk about today. (Nor do I want to talk about Bib-stalk embarrassing me.) ...
SF Tidbits for 5/20/09
SF Signal —
Interviews & Profiles: @MilSciFi: Andy Remic, author of Biohell. John Scalzi turns the Whatever mike over to Greg van Eekhout, author of Norse Code. @SciFi Scanner: Brandon Sanderson discusses the end of The Wheel of Time series. Search Engine podcast-interviews Cory Doctorow. [via Bibliophile Stalker] @Bibliophile Stalker: Jeff VanderMeer. The latest episode of Fast Forward features an interview with Catherine Asaro ...
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Enter the Octopus —
Fifteen influential early works of apocalyptic fiction (all pre-1945)
“Touched by Evil” the darkness of Flannery O’Connor’s spiritual drama
“On Demand” books up 132%
“Who IS Jeff VanderMeer?”
Mind Meld: The perfect S/SF/H books to give to people who don’t usually read S/SF/H.
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rimworlds.com 10/15/2009 — Underland Press just sent me along an advance copy of Jeff VanderMeer’s latest Ambergris novel – Finch.
Jeff has been billed as a fantasy author though (one of the best) and with limited budget, limited time and a publicly acknowledged preference for science fiction, he has not ...
Book/Magazine Review: Finch by Jeff VanderMeer
charles-tan.blogspot.com 10/20/2009 — Every Monday, I'll be doing bite-sized book/magazine reviews. Disclosure: The publisher sent a review copy for the purposes of this review. There are several ways to read Finch although for the sake of brevity, I'll tackle two of the most ...
Illustrating VanderMeer
library.plymouth.edu 10/2/2009 — Which came first; the story or the illustration? When you think about the illustrated stories that you’ve read, whether they have been in the form of a graphic novel, a picture book, or comic strip–you might ask yourself this question. In an ...
Science Fiction and the City: An Interview with Jeff VanderMeer
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‘The Package’ by Ilan Herman
planetmagazine.wordpress.com 7/3/2009 — blueguy Jeff was watching the news in his living room when a knock sounded on his apartment door. He opened the door and smiled at the rotund mailman, who’d been serving the apartments for ten years. “How ya doin’, John?” Holding a mid-sized cardboard ...
Underland Press and Last Days
jeffvandermeer.com 2/4/2009 — Thanks, Jeff, for inviting me onto your blog…
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I did mention the giant angry testicle, right?
silence-without.blogspot.com 10/13/2009 — To quote Jeff VanderMeer: There’s nothing like a little challenge to roil the blood and take over your life for a couple of months—all while not being able to say much of anything about it publicly, but, finally, I can announce that: Tessa Kum and [ ...