literary.erictmarin.com - 2/3/2009
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(In memory of Arthur C. Clarke) Snatch the dreampulse, the sunbounce reflecting off fins of slim rocketships rising from steaming spaceports, guided by sliderules (or logbooks, or ten ton multivax that take a break to calculate dates but dream themselves half-way human,) rising, rising, ...
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QuasarDragon —
... from the shores of Terra, and they depended upon those ships and on their cargoes of civilization." On the Human Plan by Jay Lake I am called Dog the Digger. I am not mighty, neither am I fearsome. Should you require bravos, there are muscle-boys aplenty among the rat-bars of any lowtown on this raddled world. If it is a wizard you want, follow the powder-trails of crushed silicon and wolf's blood to their dark and winking lairs. Poetry: Migration by Sonya Taaffe By their spaceships ye shall know them by Jo Walton and When Her Eyes Open by Shira ...
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... Pyr are hosting an excerpt from End of the Century by Chris Roberson
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Polu Texni presents “Very Truly Yours” part 3 by Seth Gordon
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Last week I forgot to mention that the new edition of Lone Star Stories also has poetry:
“Migration” by Sonya Taaffe
“By their spaceships ye shall know them” by Jo Walton ...
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