blogs.amctv.com - 3/26/2009
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Another reader question! I do so love reader questions, since they keep me from having to think up a column topic on my own. This one asks:
"How do you think the economic recession will affect movies in general, and science fiction and fantasy movies in particular?"
This is a two-part ...
tor.com - 3/24/2009
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John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War took me by
surprise. I picked up the book because I’d heard...
a lot of good things about him and decided I’d give it a one-page tryout. Either he’d grip me right away or I’d drop it. Twenty pages later I realized I ...
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A Conversation with John Scalzi
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SF Tidbits for 3/26/09
SF Signal —
... by Jeffrey Ford, read by Rajan Khanna.
Free sample via Eos: Read the first 20% of Katherine Allred's Close Encounters online.
Farah Mendlesohn has posted the introduction from Rhetorics of Fantasy: "In this book I argue that there are essentially four categories within the fantastic: the portal-quest, the immersive, the intrusive, and the liminal..."
John Scalzi knows What the Recession Means for SciFi Movies.
Cracked lists 7 Awesome Super Powers ...
Headlines for March 25th through March 27th
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These are my links for March 25th through March 27th:
LEGO: 52-Pound Mon Calamari Star Cruiser | dashPunk -
AMC - Blogs - SciFi Scanner - John Scalzi - What the Recession Means for SciFi Movies… Less Trek? -
Star Trek is not a reboot? | dashPunk -
Fanboy.com » Blog Archive » Retro Martian Invader Tin Toy Invades Your Nostalgia -
Dragonforce Recorder Style - Project: Shadow HQ -
Richard and Kahlan: I’d Give Up Forever… | dashPunk - ...
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