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antickmusings.blogspot.com - 8/26/2008
Reviewing the Mail: Week of 8/23
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This is a weekly post: it goes up early every Monday morning and lists the books that I received the week before for review or notice (and, sometimes, books that I got in other ways, if I want to call attention to them). I haven't reviewed any of these yet, and I won't be able to get to all of them, but everything is worthy of notice and every book will be someone's favorite. So, book I saw ...

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Enter the Octopus — ... Margaret Atwood says that humans could be headed for extinction There’s no such thing as SF fandom Nancy Kress is still semi-cranky at the movies Review: “Shadowmarch” by Tad Williams SoftSkull’s Richard Nash guest-blogging at Jeff VanderMeer’s place Reviewing the mail at Antick Musings “Low-brow, no-brow, shitty stuff and guilty pleasures?” Jason Lutes on gaming, fiction ...

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