entertainment.timesonline.co.uk - 1/3/2009
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by Gwyneth Jones Gollancz, 14.99; 472pp Buy the book here Twelve by Jasper Kent Bantam, 12.99; 480pp Buy the book here With Spirit, Gwyneth Jones has returned to the universe she created in her Aleutian trilogy of the 1990s. The story takes place some centuries after the arrival on Earth of ...
io9.com - 1/7/2009
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The nominations for all of the worst movies
of 2008 are out. And lucky, lucky Frank Miller...
missed the nominations for the worst movie in the history in the world by a few days. Unfortunately, The Spirit came out too late to make the Razzie ...
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The Spirit Misses Razzie Nomination By A Hair [Razzies]
fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com - 1/1/2009
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Official Jasper Kent Website Order “ Twelve ”
HERE Read An Excerpt HERE Read Reviews via SFF...
World AUTHOR INFORMATION: Jasper Kent owns a degree in Natural Sciences from Trinity Hall, Cambridge . For almost twenty years he has worked ...
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“Twelve” by Jasper Kent (Reviewed by Robert Thompson)
blog.fph.co.uk - 1/8/2009
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12A • 102 mins • 1 January Director:
Frank Miller Cast: Gabriel Macht, Samuel L Jackson, Eva...
Mendes, Scarlett Johansson Rating: “My city screams,” declares the domino-masked crimefighter. But that’s not the sound of a metropolis ...
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And here is another good review of Jasper Kent's TWELVE, from today's Times: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/fiction/article5424817.ece Onwards!
Going Linker
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... I’ve been quiet over the holiday period (hope everyone had a good one), but there’s been plenty to read elsewhere:
Two reviews of Comma Press’ The New Uncanny anthology, by Salley Vickers in the Guardian and Peter Washington in the Independent
Lisa Tuttle’s latest sf reviews cover Gwyneth Jones’ Spirit and Jasper Kent’s Twelve
John Clute also reviews Spirit
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is going bimonthly; a ...
In Link Waters
Torque Control —
... oral storytelling
Martin Lewis on two novels by Algis Budrys
Paul Kincaid reviews The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak and The Quiet War by Paul McAuley. And muses on the passing of The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror
He also reviews Spirit by Gwyneth Jones; other reviews of Spirit here by Karen Joy Fowler, here by Nic Clarke, and here by Lisa Tuttle
The next generation of sf writers, as seen by Damien G ...
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