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First Contact: A Talk with Ursula K. Le Guin
newyorker.com - 7/28/2009
First Contact: A Talk with Ursula K. Le Guin
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We’re thrilled to have Ursula K. Le Guin join us today to talk about “The Left Hand of Darkness.” In the spirit of the novel, our questions are a collaboration between a male and...

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Bibliophile Stalker:  July 29, 2009 Links and Plugs

SF Signal:  SF Tidbits for 7/29/09

Lakeshore:  [links] Link salad stumbles into Thursday, apologizes

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July 29, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — Busy busy busy. Oh, and just reminding that the Manila International Book Fair is in September so save up! Interviews Raych interviews Margo Lanagan. The New Yorker interviews Ursula K. le Guin. David Steffen interviews Juliette Wade. Cat Rambo interviews Jeff Crooks. Charlotte Abbott interviews Ann Kingman and Michael Kindness. Maria Schneider interviews Quartet Press. Advice/Articles Kim Wilkins on The Science of ...

SF Tidbits for 7/29/09
SF Signal — The New Yorker chats with Ursula K. Le Guin about The Left Hand of Darkness. [via Locus Online] The Vietnam News interviews the head of the VFSF, biologist and SF writer Vu Kim Dung. [via The World SF News Blog] Locus Online has the Scribe Award Winners, honoring the best in media tie-in fiction. Tolkien's heirs want production of The Hobbit stopped. [via Locus Online] Sez Joe Abercrombie: "RPGs have nothing ...

[links] Link salad stumbles into Thursday, apologizes
Lakeshore — First Contact: A Talk with Ursula K. Le Guin — The New Yorker interviews Le Guin. (Snurched from Scrivener's Error.) Another Word on Word Count — Agent Caren Johnson on genres, structure and word count, including this little gem comparing SF to mystery: There is a set formula for science fiction, westerns and horror as well. I can't speak for westerns and horror, but a comment like that leads me to conclude that Caren hasn't read much science fiction in the last forty years. (Via the Twitterfeed of ...

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