bscreview.com - 5/18/2009
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Synergy is back! This is the third installment of the feature, and the first under the BSCreview banner! For newcomers, the basic gist is that one of our contributors offers a single question for our other contributors to give answer to. Beyond that, we go out and adopt talented outsiders ...
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May 19, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker —
... Baugh on Fen of Color United and me as a white creator. Nalo Hopkinson on Looking for Clues. Jeremiah Tolbert on 5 Rejection Horror Stories. Jim C. Hines on The Author-Reader Contract and Backseat Writers. Priya Ganapati on Why E-Books Look So Ugly. Shawn Speakman on After Editing: Submission. K. Tempest Bradford on The Good, The Bad, The Mary Sues. BookSpot Central on Back in the Day Gems? Courtney Summers On being edited (and what I learned). Nnedi ...
SF Tidbits for 5/19/09
SF Signal —
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Rudy Rucker is guest-blogging at BoingBoing. [via Futurismic]
Joseph Mallozzi reviews Michael A. Burstein's I Remember the Future
Says the Guardian: "We should not rue the passing of a bookish golden age that never existed."
Gizmodo on Why Asimov's Laws of Robotics Are Total BS. [via Fantasy Magazine]
BSCreview Mind Melds with Charles Stross, Sonita Henry, and Jay Tomio about childhood favorites.
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The Science Fiction That Captured The Imaginations Of Charles Stross And Sonita Henry [Books]
io9 —
... Ian R. MacLeod. (Stross' influences are pretty much what you'd expect, including Arthur C. Clarke — although he was apparently a fiend for E.E. "Doc" Smith.) And then Star Trek/Fifth Element actor Sonita Henry confesses her deep love for Labyrinth and Dark Crystal. Oh, and Ian MacLeod explains how he watched the very first Doctor Who episode and wrote a letter to the BBC telling them it should run forever. [BSC Review]
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