otter.covblogs.com - 6/23/2009
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Since a greater portion of my week was spent in Jury Duty last week, I didn't get a chance to read my Google Reader every day. So I thought I would post the best of last week right here.
Sam Jordison asks SF fans to stop sneering at fantasy readers .
Ray Bradbury defends the local ...
Which Fantasy Writer Are You?
otter.covblogs.com 6/9/2009 — The Hornswoggler pointed out this little quiz to me, and I found it to be one of th best I have taken. The weird thing is that though I am like China Mieville, I have NEVER READ any of his works, and I love the opposing suggestion at the bottom of this and have read a lot of his works. Weird ...
The City and the City by China Miéville
mumpsimus.blogspot.com 7/6/2009 — If The City & The City is not my favorite China Miéville novel, that is only because I encountered Perdido Street Station at exactly the time I was ready for the riches it offered, and so the powerful, unforgettable experience of reading it ...
The City and The City by China Mieville
antickmusings.blogspot.com 7/9/2009 — The cliche goes that books are like a conversation -- they speak to each other and to the reader, some telling jokes, others grabbing the lapels and pleading, a few lying languidly back and rolling out unlikely tales. The City and the City , in that ...
Links for a Lazy Sunday
jeffvandermeer.com 6/15/2009 —
(Stolen from Silence Without. It ain’t no hat, that’s for sure. It ain’t a beard, neither. It might be a cookbook, if you hold it in the right light.)
Well, or a not-so-lazy Sunday. A working Sunday…
Sir Tessa blogs up ...
Omni Podcast: China Mieville on "The City & The City"
omnivoracious.com 6/17/2009 — After a busy few days of talking to authors at BookExpo America and a couple of weeks editing the results, it's time to start sharing the more than a dozen interviews Daphne and I did with a pretty spectacular group...
China Lands on the Moon - Sort of [Space Exploration]
io9.com 3/4/2009 — On Sunday, the Chinese space program announced that their satellite, Chang'e-I, ended its 16 month mapping mission with a planned crash on the lunar surface, destroying the craft. Chang'e-I was the first part of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program ...
China Miéville on Crime Novels
whatever.scalzi.com 5/26/2009 — China Miéville’s new novel The City & The City hits the stores today, and it’s a novel that simultaneously fulfills Miéville fan expectatation and is something that they never would have seen coming. Fans of the author almost certainly ...
Mieville, The City and the City (preorder)
subterraneanpress.com 5/18/2009 — By China Mieville (preorder--to be published in July 2009) Limited: $75 Lettered: $500 Subterranean Press is proud to present the limited edition of what may well be China’s breakthrough novel. In such novels as King Rat , Perdido Street Station , ...