antickmusings.blogspot.com - 7/7/2009
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Hard Science Fiction used to be all about wonder and amazement, about pushing the limits of knowledge and expectation. But that's been obsolete for some time; the rump Hard SF that we have these days has been formed by two generations of fannish nitpickers, the failure of the US space program, ...
locusmag.com - 7/13/2009
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locusmag.com —
I guess that most people by now will
have seen the news that Charles N. Brown, Editor-in-Chief
and Publisher of Locus , died yesterday on the way back to California from Readercon in Boston. I know that Liza and the team at Locus HQ are working on ...
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Charles N. Brown
otter.covblogs.com - 7/7/2009
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# Genre: Anthology/Collection, Near Future, Space Opera #
Hardcover: 368 pages # Publisher: Ace Hardcover (July 7,
2009) # ISBN-10: 0441017193 # ISBN-13: 978-0441017195 # Author Website: Charlie's Place "This is not fiction. This is a sequence of concepts that I am transferring into ...
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Book Review: Wireless by Charles Stross
14theditch.livejournal.com - 7/15/2009
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The last I saw Charles Brown was at
the Marriott in Burlington this past weekend at Readercon.
He motored by me in his wheelchair and took a swing at me with his cane. That, for Charles, was a sign of affection. He was a truly unique individual, a complex personality, ...
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Charles Brown
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... essay “The Singularity Is Here“, about “imaginings of the Singularity and especially Charles Stross’ novel Accelerando”, from Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction, edited by Mark Bould and China Miéville.
Marty Halpern: twelve stories do not a collection make, and the putting-together of Alastair Reynolds’ short fiction collections
Andrew Wheeler reads Wireless and concludes that Charles Stross is all about the pessimism. Martin Lewis disagrees.
Gwyneth Jones on Daniel ...
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Commentary: Where are all the Charles Stross audiobooks?
sffaudio.com 3/6/2009 —
Here’s a question nobody’s been asking (but should have). Where are all the Charles Stross audiobooks?
Seriously, the guy is super talented. There have only been three commercially released Charlie Stross audiobooks (all from Infinivox ). The were terrific, but they’re ...
Stross: how I ended up as a science fiction writer
futurismic.com 6/13/2009 — Charles Stross is recounting the long journey to his current position has one of the stars of British science fiction , beginning with his first steps into education during the years of Thatcher:
I already knew (from an early age — 12 or so) ...
Charles Stross on the future of gaming
futurismic.com 5/15/2009 — The Zeitgeist strikes again - it appears that this week is going to throw up lots of stuff about computer gaming. Here’s a counterpoint to Sven’s dispatch ; a transcript of a keynote speech that Charlie Stross gave to the LOGIN 2009 games ...
In Memoriam
spiralgalaxyreviews.blogspot.com 7/14/2009 — I hadn't thought that I'd be writing something like this for a friend, not so soon. Certainly not for Charles Brown (1937-2009). While I knew his health wasn't great, it seemed like it had been doing better this year than last, and I was looking forward to seeing him at WorldCon in Montreal. ...
Yog Radio: Interview with Charles Stross
sffaudio.com 4/30/2009 —
Paul Maclean (aka Paul Of Cthulhu) kindly wrote in to say that he’s got An interview With Charles Stross up and ready for listening over on Yog-Sothoth.com . It was recorded at a EasterCon 2009. Here’s the | MP3 | or you can subscribe to the Yog-Sothoth podcast feed:
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SHORT FICTION: Paying It Forward
apexbookcompany.com 11/30/2008 — by Michael A. Burstein
Analog , September 2003
Nominee, 2004 Hugo Award for Best Short Story
I’m dying.
No one knows it yet. Having never married, I have no family to mourn my passing. I do have my fans, who would probably turn ...