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Shopping for a Pet? Consider These Fantasy Movie Creatures
blogs.amctv.com - 12/6/2008
Shopping for a Pet? Consider These Fantasy Movie Creatures
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This holiday season children in countless homes across the country are begging for their first pet (Barack Obama, I'm looking at you). Parents, you know the drill -- you might have even been through it before, once upon a time. Sure you could go the puppy, kitten, goldfish route. But if you ...

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SF Tidbits for 12/6/08
SF Signal — ... no physiological sense. That's because the directors are just using fragments of science to assemble fiction that reach down deep inside us, not to our internal database of scientific facts, but to our addiction to beautiful images and human stories. Science fiction movies are not really about science." Superhero films are more than just box-office moneymakers, they are also Oscar contenders as well. At SciFi Scanner, Mary Robinette Kowal looks at Fantasy Movie Creatures.

December 9, 2008 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — ... Mary Robinette Kowal on Shopping for a Pet? Consider These Fantasy Movie Creatures. Also doubles as advice column for wizards planning to acquire a familiar. ...

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