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November 16, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — There's three more The Apex Book of World SF interviews to be posted at SF Signal so stay tuned. In the meantime, here are the interviews from the previous week: Aleksandar Žiljak Anil Menon Dean Francis Alfar Tunku Halim Han Song And those curious about the upcoming Lightspeed magazine should listen to the Sofanauts with editors John Joseph Adams and Andrea Kail. I also get plugged. =) And currently getting a barrage of hits from a combination of Andrew Wheeler, James Nicoll, and Jay Lake. (Thanks ...

Freedom Fighters Of The Distant Future Need Coffee! [Book Vortex]
io9 — When science fiction books depict people living in the distant future, where's the coffee? Tor.Com's Jo Walton wants to know. She lists some of the hilarious words authors use instead of coffee, including Anne McCaffrey's "klah" and C.J. Cherryh's "gfi." ...

Recent Tor.com posts
Bluejo's Journal — Noodles, self-help groups and airplane parts: things to avoid in making up fantasy names, Jhereg, Re-reading Dragaera, What is it with coffee?, Fred Pohl's The Way the Future Was. More Dragaera posts will be going up soon. In other interesting reading this week, Anne de Courcy's biography Snowdon about Tony Armstrong Jones is brilliant, as I'd expected. She is definitely my favourite biographer, she always gets the balance just right.