tor.com - 3/5/2009
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The fascinating thing about Elizabeth Moon’s The Speed of Dark is the voice. Lou Arrendale is autistic, and never for a moment in the first person narrative that forms the vast majority of this book do we step away from the fascinating way that he sees the world. He’s like an alien, by the ...
locusmag.com - 3/2/2009
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locusmag.com —
SF QUINTESSENTIAL Nick Gevers interviews the creators
and editors of Short Fiction #2: Lou Anders Born
in Alabama and resident there again after stints in Virginia, England, Illinois, and California, Lou Anders ( www.louanders.com ; blog at ...
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Locus Online: Interview: Nick Gevers interviews Lou Anders
io9.com - 3/2/2009
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io9.com —
A screaming Wondercon crowd got treated to a
new Terminator Salvation trailer and two long scenes, which
I think were new. We got exposed to McG's ruthlessly manic energy, and we learned some mega-spoilers. Oh, and the clip to the left is from ...
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Terminator Trailer (And 2 Scenes) Show Robot Angst ...
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What I've been re-reading
Bluejo's Journal —
My recent posts on Tor.com: Real world reading for fantasy writers. The Sky Road. Who's human anyway? Who's free? Octavia Butler's Pattern series. Octavia Butler's Survivor. A wish for something different at the frontier. Middlemarch and SF. Angelica Gorodischer's Kalpa Imperial. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand. The Speed of Dark. Horizon. Philip Jose Farmer obit. The Great World Novel. Lavinia..
Elizabeth Moon, Autism, and The Speed of Dark
Biology in Science Fiction —
Today is World Autism Awareness Day, and so I thought it would be appropriate to point to Elizabeth Moon's essay "Autism: Past, Present, Future, Speculative." The topic is an intensely personal one for her, because her son - now an adult - is autistic. She writes: One of the things which impressed me about our son, even before he could communicate in signs, gestures, or words, was the healthy quality of his emotional life. Yes, he screamed when he was upset, and I would have preferred a "Mom, I don't want to do that." But the things he enjoyed were reasonable, healthy things ...
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August 3, 2009: The Speed of Dark, by Elizabeth Moon
josephmallozzi.wordpress.com 8/5/2009 —
In the interest of full disclosure: This isn‘t my first time reading The Speed of Dark. It’s one of my favorite books and I have nothing but good things to say about it.
Okay. Onto my review:
Thirty-five year old Lou ...
Defining Science Fiction
jameswharris.wordpress.com 2/9/2009 — I just started reading Fast Forward 2 , an original anthology of science fiction edited by Lou Anders and I had to stop in the middle of the first story to write this. Anders begins the book with two quotes about science fiction, this is the ...
Is Colonizing the Moon Possible?
jameswharris.wordpress.com 1/2/2009 — Despite the huge success of science fiction movies at the box office, despite the fact that most people think humanity is destined for space travel, despite the fact that manned missions into space are considered the high points of human ...
BOOK REVIEW: Fast Forward 2, edited by Lou Anders
futurismic.com 12/3/2008 — Fast Forward 2 by Lou Anders, ed.
Pyr Books, October 2008; 360pp; $15 RRP - ISBN13: 9781591026921
The first thing I’m going to mention about Lou Anders ‘ second Fast Forward anthology is the John Picacio cover artwork, which is ...
Warm by Robert Sheckley - Free eBook
manybooks.net 7/26/2009 — an't you help me?" a clump of atoms asked. But the clump was identical with all the other atoms. Once you ignored the superimposed patterns, you could see the atoms were random, scattered. "I don't believe in you," Anders said. The pile of atoms was ...
A Review Of Moon (2009)
scificool.com 7/19/2009 — I just had the considerable pleasure of watching “Moon” starring the ridiculously good Sam Rockwell and the amazing up and coming director Duncan Jones. I notice that “Moon” was produced in part by Trudie Styler who also produced Guy Ritchie’s first film. She has an ...
Science Fiction in My Lifetime
jameswharris.wordpress.com 12/28/2008 — When I wrote this title I intended it be about science fictional predictions coming true in my lifetime, and especially what might still happen before I die. Then I realized it could also imply I was writing about the great science fictional books ...
Manned Space Flight – Is it even on your radar?
jameswharris.wordpress.com 6/23/2009 — During the glory days of NASA, between President Kennedy’s great 1961 proclamation committing the United States to going to the Moon within a decade, and Apollo 11 landing on the Moon in July 1969, there were three great space programs: Mercury , ...
Moon Monster
qd2.blogspot.com 11/25/2008 — Another of the pulp fiction stories from Planet Comics , transcribed from the original JPEG fiche scans to make them easier to read and reformat. The two pages that this came from are included at the bottom. Moon Monster by Jack Anthony from Planet ...
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