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It's worth taking a moment to consider the title. Is a quiet war meant to make us think that in space no-one can hear you scream? But this is no space war, and the pitched battle, when it comes, is fought under a dome on a moon of Jupiter away from the silence of vacuum. No, I think we are meant ...
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Paul Di Filippo is a protean writer, able
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wildly inventive way. As Cory Doctorow refers to him in the introduction to Paul’s most recent collection, Harsh Oases, “He’s like baking ...
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An Interview with Paul Di Filippo
jeffvandermeer.com - 2/10/2009
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Without further ado… Brian, take it away. ***
Last Days , my novel that just appeared, has...
had a varied and complicated life. It started when Paul Miller of Earthling Press approached me about doing a limited edition chapbook. At the ...
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In Link Waters
Torque Control —
... Montreal airport, waiting for my flight home. Time for some overdue links:
Adam Roberts reviews Anathem. If you only click on one link, click on this one. But is the dialogue really that bad…?
Dan Hartland on Salman Rushdie, Catherynne Valente, and 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 ...
The 2009 Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist
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... now, here are the nominees:
Song of Time by Ian R MacLeod (PS Publishing)
Reviewed by Adam Roberts for Strange Horizons
Reviewed by Eric Brown for The Guardian
An appreciation by Helena Bowles
Reviewed by Niall here
The Quiet War by Paul McAuley (Gollancz)
Reviewed by Abigail Nussbaum for Strange Horizons
Reviewed by Paul Kincaid for SF Site
Reviewed by Duncan Lawie for The Zone
Reviewed by Eric Brown for ...
Buffer Overflow
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... . I’ve never actually tried to read a comment thread on io9 before, and hadn’t realised how ludicrous the comment-ordering system there is, but it’s interesting to see how much antipathy there is for the novel, more than you might expect from the general ...
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adamcallaway.blogspot.com 22 days ago — Buy a dozen copies here. I haven't read a good contemporary space opera in a while. Modern space operas, to me, began to seem more like upper level quantum physics courses instead of action packed, character driven adventures in space. My introduction to science fiction were books like ...
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From the teeming cities of earth to the scrupulously realized landscapes of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, The Quiet War, an exotic, fast-paced space opera, turns on a single question: who decides what it means to be human?
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vectoreditors.wordpress.com 4/4/2009 — And last but not least (yes, I know I got my order mixed up), we have Paul McAuley’s “Little Lost Robot”: read here [pdf] or listen here . The roundup:
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pyrsf.com 9/1/2009 — 462 pp ISBN: 978-1-59102-781-2 Trade Paperback $16.00 September 2009 Cover Illustration: ©Sparth www.sparth.com Twenty-third century Earth, ravaged by climate change, looks backwards to the holy ideal of a pre-industrial Eden. Political power has been ...
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louanders.blogspot.com 3/19/2009 — I'm thrilled for Paul McAuley, whose novel The Quiet War , just made the Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist . The Quiet War was one of my favorite reads of the past year. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I acquired US rights to it, and Pyr will be ...
It's here!
pyrsf.blogspot.com 9/4/2009 — Paul McAuley's brilliant novel of war (and anti-war), The Quiet War , is now in stock at Amazon. Should be in stores soon too. Here's another shot at Sparth's gorgeous art and Jackie's gorgeous design: