pyrsf.blogspot.com - 2/10/2009
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Over at Boing-Boing they've just called wraps on their 'Undying love in ≤150 characters' competition (the challenge was to write a love poem in no more than 150 characters: "this is a contest where speed and cleverness beat diligence ... remember that spaces and punctuation count"). The results ...
wetasphalt.com - 2/8/2009
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wetasphalt.com —
I don't like short stories. I have never
made this a secret. There is the occasional writer
like Mark Twain, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges or Gabriel Garcia Marquez who writes short stories that I like. But these writers are few and far between. ...
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Why I Hate Short Stories: A Short Article on Why Short ...
gadgets.boingboing.net - 2/13/2009
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gadgets.boingboing.net —
swcowboy2.jpg I've seen a few different Star Wars
posters in my day, but these Russian ones for
A New Hope are especially great. Yours today for just $3k! ( Thanks, Homerj! ) russiansw2.jpg
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Russian Star Wars posters - Boing Boing Gadgets
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SF Tidbits for 2/10/09
SF Signal —
... Jack Dann's Dreaming Again, and Lou Anders's Fast Forward 2).
Futurismic looks at Global science fiction and optimism (part 1): "...the big question here is whether a nation's artistic output passively reflects its political and economic aspirations, or whether instead it can be used to influence and change those attitudes."
Adam Roberts is guest-blogging at the Pyr blog. His latest post tackles short-short fiction.
Hassenpfeffer: It's Magic!">Edward Wilett sings! ...
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