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ON THE FRONT: An Open Letter to Adam Roberts
johnpicacio.com - 7/22/2009
ON THE FRONT: An Open Letter to Adam Roberts
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Hi, Adam -- I'm pleased you're a working science fiction author because as a driveby art critic, you're a mess. In your July 17th post about the Hugo Awards , you labelled the work of four of the five Best Professional Artist Hugo nominees as dull and mediocre, and not deserving of Hugo ...

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Bibliophile Stalker:  July 22, 2009 Links and Plugs

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The Art Department:  World Con. Artistic spheres of influence. And the future of book covers.

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July 22, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — ... Anonymous on This Week in Publisher Gossip: Untrustworthy Narrators and Publishers. Editorial Ass on Is It True?! Are 40% of Books Printed Pulped?! Rachelle Gardner on Proposal to Publication - Part 2 of 5 The Contract Stage. Juliette Wade on Grappling with, and Portraying, Discrimination. John Scalzi on On the Subject of to Whom to Address Your Literary Kvetch. Related: John Picacio on An Open Letter to Adam Roberts (read comments for further discussion). My Elves Are Different comic. ...

SF Tidbits for 7/22/09
SF Signal — ... Book Critic: Liz Williams (Shadow Pavilion). Book Banter podcast-interviews Robert J. Sawyer, author of WWW: Wake, and Christopher Golden, author of The Map of Moments. Sci-Fi Fan Letter interviews Tony Ballantyne (Twisted Metal). Adam Roberts' Hugo rant to fandom is making waves. Check out these responses from artist John Picacio, author John Scalzi...and web comic My Elves are Different. Jim C. Hines ...

World Con. Artistic spheres of influence. And the future of book covers.
The Art Department — ... "Vanguard Artists" panel: This came from his debate with Adam Roberts on whether SF art is overly conservative. John came prepared with a number of slides from artists (both young and not-so) that create works outside of the pre-raphaelite traditional so popular in fantasy illustration. Rest assured, there is an astonishing amount of exciting and vibrant work out there. Even without having seen what John brought before it was being shown on the panel, we could not have planed it better. Each artist was someone that either Dan Dos Santos, John, or I had some direct experience ...

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