bookspotcentral.com - 3/29/2009
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At the BSC, Saturday means Sarah Zettel is back with another Things That Don't Go Away !
Her novel Reclamation won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and also garnered a nomination for the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Novel. She is the project manager at the Book View Cafe .
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... @Bookspot Central: Sarah Zettel's Love/Hate Relationship with Star Wars: "I went to The Phantom Menace on its opening weekend, ready to fall in love all over again...Then the movie started, and the movie played, and the movie ended, and I walked out and I was angry. Not just a little angry either. I was Harlan-Ellison-with-a-toothache-angry. I was in fact f***ing furious." ...
The catchup: Links from Twitter
Club Jade —
Here are some of the things I’ve micro-blogged over @clubjade in the past few days.
Design! Mockery! Jumpsuits! Vintage Dharma Initiative ads are by Lost fan Adam Campbell and awesome. (via)
Important questions of our time. How does Star Wars end?
The blogside. Author Sarah Zettel on her love/hate relationship with Star Wars.
Bacta! Dutch scientists have created a healing goo based on the liquid that protects embryos in the womb, but ...
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