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The weight of time to come: Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia
tor.com - 2/28/2009
The weight of time to come: Ursula Le Guin’s Lavinia
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Lavinia isn’t a retelling of the Aeneid , and it’s better not to approach it as if it were one. There are all kinds of ways of retelling stories, and this isn’t any of them. Lavinia isn’t really like anything else at all, and it’s much the better for that. Rather, Le Guin has taken the ...
tor.com - 3/2/2009
March is Women’s History Month
— tor.com — Last month we celebrated Black History Month by reading some SF. Since March is Women’s History Month... , it is appropriate that we do the same. What follows is a list of works you could read this month and as well as some links to other places to look ... (more) March is Women’s History Month

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SF Tidbits for 2/28/09
SF Signal — @BlogTalk Radio interviews Jeffrey Ford (The Drowned Life). @The Bat Segundo Show interviews Charlie Huston (The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death). Authors reviewing Authors: Jo Walton on Ursula Le Guin's Lavinia. Cory Doctorow on Ian McDonald's Cyberabad Days. Responding to the recent nonsense surround the Kindle 2's ability to convert text to speech (which Amazon has even more recently ...

What I've been re-reading
Bluejo's Journal — My recent posts on Tor.com: Real world reading for fantasy writers. The Sky Road. Who's human anyway? Who's free? Octavia Butler's Pattern series. Octavia Butler's Survivor. A wish for something different at the frontier. Middlemarch and SF. Angelica Gorodischer's Kalpa Imperial. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand. The Speed of Dark. Horizon. Philip Jose Farmer obit. The Great World Novel. Lavinia..

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