tor.com - 2/3/2009
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One of the benefits of working as a book publicist is that I get to spend time with a lot of talented authors. For a longtime science fiction and fantasy fan like me, getting the opportunity to rub elbows with some of the field’s best and brightest minds is almost payment enough for the work I ...
tachyonpublications.com - 1/31/2009
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tachyonpublications.com —
Born in Philadelphia in 1947, James Morrow spent
his adolescent years making short 8mm fantasy films with...
his friends. After receiving a master's degree from Harvard University in 1971, Morrow worked for several years as an English teacher, a ...
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Shambling Towards Hiroshima, James Morrow
sfsignal.com - 2/5/2009
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sfsignal.com —
REVIEW SUMMARY : A philosophical inquiry into monster
movies and mass destruction. MY RATING : BRIEF SYNOPSIS...
: During WWII, a B-movie actor has to impersonate a giant, rampaging lizard in order to impress the Japanese and encourage them to ...
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REVIEW: Shambling Towards Hiroshima by James Morrow
charles-tan.blogspot.com - 1/31/2009
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Every Monday, I'll be doing spoiler-free, bite-sized book/magazine
reviews. I can imagine how the premise of Shambling...
Towards Hiroshima could have started. The author was drunk with a friend and they started pitching ideas. Hey, you know how ...
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Book/Magazine Review: Shambling Towards Hiroshima by ...
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Interview with James Morrow
Enter the Octopus —
Say, if you’re interested, you can read a short interview I did with James Morrow at TOR.COM about his novel Shambling Towards Hiroshima.
(Disclosure: I’m promoting Shambling Towards Hiroshima)
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February 4, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker —
Busy busy busy... Not spec fic related but in case you happened to be in San Francisco and Filipino, Celebrate the 5-Year Anniverary of the Kababayan Program! Some interesting Black Gate articles: The Wizard Howl and Confessions of a Speed-Reading Instructor. Read here how buying a Wheatland Press book can help raise awareness that heart diseases is the #1 killer of women. Monster Librarian has an interview with Joel Sutherland. Jim C. Hines on Writing Book Proposals. Vote at the Dead of Night Awards. Matt Staggs interviews James ...
SF Tidbits for 2/4/09
SF Signal —
Interviews & Profiles: @SCI FI Wire: Chris Roberson (End of the Century) @Lightsabre: Karen Miller (Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Wild Space). James Morrow is making the rounds at Scalzi's Whatever and Tor.com. @SCI FI Wire: John Noble Fringe's mad genius.
"For those who don't have the time to listen to an audiobook [...] HarperCollins brings you: the video book."
Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon ...
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sfsite.com 3/16/2009 — Remember those at-the-time underappreciated halcyon days between the fading of childhood and the onset of adulthood, when the only consequence of not rising before noon was to have missed a lecture on the poetry of Sir Phillip Sydney? We could stay up ...
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futurismic.com 2/6/2009 — James Morrow is a novelist with a reputation for satirising organised religion, but his new book Shambling Towards Hiroshima mashes up the original Godzilla movies with the nuclear attacks on Japan which ended the Second World War.
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Interview: James Morrow on 'Shambling Towards Hiroshima'
sfsignal.com 2/12/2009 —
James Morrow published his first novel, The Wine of Violence , in 1981. His efforts since then include The Continent of Lies (1984), This Is the Way the World Ends (1986), Only Begotten Daughter (1990), City of Truth (1991), Bible Stories for ...
What's Godzilla got to do with Hiroshima?
scifiwire.com 2/7/2009 — Fantasy author James Morrow says that his latest novel, Shambling Towards Hiroshima , deals with a figure from popular culture that he's been wanting to write about for years: Godzilla.
"Godzilla is such a potent myth within our planet's popular ...
The Agony Column Interviews James Morrow
sffaudio.com 3/18/2009 —
The Agony Column interviews James Morrow ( Shambling Towards Hiroshima ) | MP3 |
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A Fan's Notes
thestranger.com 3/17/2009 — Funny and Profane: A Fan Letter to James Morrow Reads
by Paul Constant
This is, and has to be, a personal story. Years ago, as a boy in Maine, my Aunt Madeleine would give me a $10 gift certificate to Bookland for my ...
Book/Magazine Review: Clarkesworld Magazine #31
charles-tan.blogspot.com 4/6/2009 — Every Monday, I'll be doing spoiler-free, bite-sized book/magazine reviews. This month's issue of Clarkesworld is shaping up in the sense that each piece provoked a strong reaction from me. Let's get on with the show, shall we? The feature story is ...
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amazon.com 1/5/2009 — In the tradition of Godzilla as both a playful romp and a parable of the dawn of the nuclear era, this original satire blends the destruction of World War II with the halcyon pleasure of monster movies. In the summer of 1945 war is reigning in the ...
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