suvudu.com - 5/9/2009
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Writers are only supposed to let readers see the good stuff. You don't show people the stories you've already rejected: the bad zombie tale that never found an ending, or a middle; the moment-of-genius-idea that looked so dreadful in the morning; the unedited, awful prose that makes you squirm; ...
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SF Tidbits for 5/9/09
SF Signal —
... has a nice gallery of Fan Art from Star Trek The Original Series.
LIFE magazine features a gallery of First Star Trek Episode Photos and Star Trek Fans Best Costumes.
Lists: Literary Tweets lists 100+ of the Best Authors on Twitter, grouped by genre. (And don't forget to follow us, too!) [via Alan Baxter] @io9: The Dumbest Space Operas Of All Time. @Suvudu: The 10 Worst Stories Alan Campbell Ever Tried to Write Trek lists: @SCI FI ...
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Enter the Octopus —
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Jeff VanderMeer on five years of Sfar and Trondheim’s “Dungeon” series
“Dracula” by the day: reading the famous epistolary novel in blog form.
“Punktown” author Jeffrey Thomas on the recent spate of “weird detectives”
Kids’ cartoons used to be kind of creepy (“Wanna be a member? Wanna be a member?”)
“The Ten Worst Stories I Have Ever Tried to Write”
Interesting old interview (2005) with “Imaro” author Charles R. Saunders, a black author of swords & sorcery fiction ...
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