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Re: Science Fiction is Dead! Long Live Science Fiction!
Re: Science Fiction is Dead! Long Live Science Fiction!
Paul, Another great article. I think that Science Fiction has caught up with Science Fact but that it is still alive just changing and evolving like everything else. I too love the hybirdization that is going on. Toni
Six Sexy Smart Women from Science and Science Fiction
mikebrotherton.com — Over the weekend I did six sexy and smart guys from science and science fiction. Seems like fair play to do the same for the women. First thing though is that I’m staying the hell away from Denise Richards as that astrophysicist in the James ... (more) Six Sexy Smart Women from Science and Science Fiction
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Science Fiction is Dead! Long Live Science Fiction!
Pyr-o-mania — So writes Paul Goat Allen in Unabashedly Bookish, the B&N Book Club blog. He quotes Orson Scott Card as saying that science fiction is “no longer a cutting-edge genre – the edge is now in fantasy.” Then Goat praises Ken Scholes’ Psalms of Isaak saga as being "actually post-apocalyptic science fiction cloaked in grand-scale fantasy." ...

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Bibliophile Stalker — ... Finch on Fantastic Voyages. SF Signal MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F (Part II). Joshua Palmatier on Writing: Revisions: Inserting Resurrected Scenes, An Example. Jeff VanderMeer on Self-Publishing: When to Do It, When Not to Do It, and More. Paul Di Filippo on Sidney Carroll Story. Douglas Cohen on I Iz Learning. Matt Cheney on Mimetic Fiction. Paul Goat Allen on Science Fiction is Dead! Long Live Science Fiction! Jay Lake on Moving the Goalpost. ...

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