sciencefictionandfantasyenthusiasts.com - 6/18/2009
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I’m going to be perfectly honest with you here. Well, OK, not perfectly honest. This may be nonfiction but I reserve the right to invent, embellish, obfuscate and downright lie if I want to, so long as it serves my argument. That’s my prerogative as a hung-like-a-horse MENSA member who looks ...
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June 19, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker —
... readers interview Michael Moorcock. Graphic Novel Reporter interviews Joe Hill. Rick Kleffel interviews Jeff VanderMeer on Shared Worlds : Speculative Fiction Camp for Teens (podcast). School Library Journal interviews Shaun Tan. Maria Schneider interviews Seth Harwood. Advice/Articles JA Konrath on Should E-Books Be Cheap? James Lovegrove on Reviewing The Reviewing. Jay Lake on Stretching My Legs. John Klima on Don't Panic: Magazine ...
Interesting Links from Last Week
Grasping for the Wind —
... LeGuin, China Miéville, and Michael Moorcock: "What's your pick for the top real-life fantasy or science fiction city?"
Cory Doctorow's Little Brother is now a stage play!
Sue Lange presents a tongue-in-cheek website called Posthumousinterviews.com.
Tor.com launches a non-publisher specific webstore.
Lucien Spelman interviews Joe Abercrombie at SF Signal.
James Lovegrove on Reviewing the Reviewing.
John Klima on magazine closings.
A ...
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On Reviewing
angelaslatter.wordpress.com 4/3/2009 — “Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.”
(Evelyn Waugh)
“Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race.”
(Percy Bysshe Shelley)
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Reviewing Reviewers 2
crotchetyoldfan.wordpress.com 12/21/2008 — The Agony Column: Five wildly diverse individuals covering a range of topics in interesting ways. It does include some genre coverage and reviews and appears pretty professional. An almost definite add.
Andromeda Spaceways: a magazine actually rather ...
Reviewing the Book Review Blogs - Again
rimworlds.com 8/24/2009 — Look! That’s me being dragged. Yes, I am kicking and screaming.
Last year when John Ottinger started his Book Reviewer Blog Linkup Meme, I conceived the entirely insane idea of doing a capsule review of each of the blogs.
At the time I was looking for something to write about that ...
Reviewing The Book Review Blogs: Day 1
rimworlds.com 8/25/2009 — 7 Foot Shelves : (Somewhat) weekly postings of mini-reviews by five reviewers - currently science fiction (and zombies). No blogroll, no link.
The Accidental Bard: No postings since February ‘09. Up to that point, about equal parts science fiction and urban fantasy, as well as ...
Reviewing the Book Review Blogs: Day 2
rimworlds.com 8/27/2009 — Yesterday I missed including one of the first ten blogs. (Sorry - not intentional).
Here’s that one -
A Journey of Books: Wide-ranging subjects. Includes a rating program and, interestingly, a ’sensuality’ rating. Blogroll, no link.
Now on to Day 2.
Andromeda ...
Reviewing the Mail: Week of 9/27
antickmusings.blogspot.com 9/30/2008 — Since I review books -- whatever I feel like here and various graphic novels and manga for ComicMix -- I get books to review in the mail. (It's what they call a virtuous circle.) But I do feel a bit guilty, since there's no way I could review ...
Reviewing the Reviewers: Day 4
rimworlds.com 8/30/2009 — If you are a dead horse: Beat, Beat, Beat.
The point I am not so subtly trying to make by mentioning whether a blog has a blogroll and whether or not it includes a link to my blog is: it helps YOUR traffic/page rank/social skills/will make you look and feel younger/bands us all together in a ...
Reviewing the Mail: Week of 8/23
antickmusings.blogspot.com 8/26/2008 — 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 ...
Reviewing the Book Review Blogs - Day 3
rimworlds.com 8/28/2009 — Babbling About Books: Romance and SF-Romance reviews, along with some interviews. Blogroll, no link.
Bees and Books on the Knob: Underoing a slight re-do - separating Bee Keeping & Gardening book reviews (at this link) from general book reviews which can be found at Books on the Knob , ...
Reviewing the Reviewers
crotchetyoldfan.wordpress.com 12/21/2008 — Now that the SF/F review blog meme has gotten a thorough distribution (and grown by about seven times during the process) I have begun to take a look at each and every blog on the (current) list. My purpose is two-fold:
first - do I want to/should I ...