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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 06.05.08
The net is an unending NOW of moments and distractions and wonderments and puzzlements and rages. Asking someone riding its currents to undertake some kind of complex dance before she can hand you her money is a losing proposition.
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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 06.05.08
New books by Stephenie Meyer, Charlaine Harris, Dean Koontz
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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 05.05.08
Howard Waldrop and Lawrence Person review
Iron Man
Most of my complaints have to do with the nature of the plot, but the direction is first rate, and the first 20 minutes fly along with just the right economy of motion. I also like the fact that Stark is actually shown doing engineering design work. ...Actually, of the recent spate of superhero movies, this is probably better than anything but the first two Spiderman and X-Men films and Batman Begins.
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seawhyspers
date: 10:30, 04.05.08
current mood:
tired
Seven-day schedules are definitely not what they are cracked up to be. *~* My writing has been supplanted by studying, papers, and working hours. However, my last final is Tuesday, and classes don't start again until the 14th, so I'll have a few days to get short stories out in the mail, and maybe a few hours of editing. I'm still waiting for a final official schedule for work so that I know what hours I have free, but it hasn't been handed to me, yet.
So, for now, I have nothing more than my reading updates:
Mercedes Lackey's The Gates of Sleep
Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
S.L. Viehl's Eternity Row
And even though I probably shouldn't have spent the money, my last trip to Borders yielded the final two books in Erin Hunter's Warrior series, so I'll FINALLY be able to finish that. I have a few books to get through before those two, though.
At least one thing appears promising this year: I should easily make my goal of twenty-five books read! *-*
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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 03.05.08
New SF/F/H books seen this past week include Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer's anthology Steampunk, Michael Chabon's essay collection Maps and Legends, Melissa Marr's YA fantasy Ink Exchange, and other titles by Eric Brown, Eric Flint & Marilyn Kosmatka, Katharine Kerr, Henry Melton, Nick Sagan, Mary Frary, & Andy Walker, and Thomas E. Sniegoski.
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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 03.05.08
New SF/F/H books seen the fourth week of April include Ursula K. Le Guin's Lavinia, Paul Park's The Hidden World, Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns, original SFBC anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois and Marvin Kaye, and other titles by Michio Kaku, Rob Rogers, Hayden Trenholm, and David Zindell.
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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 03.05.08
What's in new issues of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Flashing Swords, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Paradox, and Sybil's Garage.
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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 02.05.08
Finalists for the first annual Shirley Jackson Awards, a juried award established to recognize "outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic", include novels by Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden, Elizabeth Hand, Toby Barlow, Dan Simmons, and David Pearce, plus nominees in categories for Novella, Novelette, Short Story, Collection, and Anthology. Winners will be announced July 20, 2008, at Readercon in Burlington, Massachusetts.
» Shirley Jackson Awards
» Shirley Jackson Awards Blog
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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 30.04.08
The winner of this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award for best SF novel first published in Britain in 2007 is Richard Morgan's Black Man (Gollancz). The announcement was made at a ceremony held in London on the opening night of the Sci-Fi-London film festival. (Morgan's novel was published in the US as Thirteen.)» Arthur C. Clarke Award
» 2008 shortlist
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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 30.04.08
Science fiction artist John Berkey, born 1932, died yesterday, April 29, 2008. Known for science fictional images of vast space ships, Berkey also painted ships and aircraft, pastoral scenes and portraiture. Collections of his SF art are Painted Space (1991) and Jane Frank's The Art of John Berkey (2003). He was named the Spectrum Grand Master in 1999.
» News items at Spectrum Fantastic Art
» Posts by Bob Eggleton and Irene Gallo
» John Berkey ArtOrg
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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 30.04.08
The winner of this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award for best SF novel first published in Britain in 2007 is Richard Morgan's Black Man (Gollancz). The announcement was made at a ceremony held in London on the opening night of the Sci-Fi-London film festival.» Arthur C. Clarke Award
» 2008 shortlist
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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 30.04.08
The May issue of Locus has interviews with Theodora Goss and Catherynne M. Valente, remembrances of the late Arthur C. Clarke, news of the Stoker and Nebula awards, reports from World Horror Con and ICFA, and reviews of new books by Walter Jon Williams, Jay Lake, Elizabeth Bear, Lou Anders, Jonathan Barnes, and others.
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Table of Contents
Interviews, Data File, Listings, Obituaries, Reviews...
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Locus Bestsellers
Banks, Butcher, Snyder, Traviss, Staten
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New & Notable Books
Anderson, Egan, Holland, Le Guin, Park, Varley...
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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 30.04.08
Science fiction artist John Berkey, born 1932, died yesterday, April 29, 2008. Known for science fictional images of vast space ships, Berkey also painted ships and aircraft, pastoral scenes and portraiture. Collections of his SF art are Painted Space (1991) and Jane Frank's The Art of John Berkey (2003). He was named the Spectrum Grand Master in 1999.
» News items at Spectrum Fantastic Art
» John Berkey ArtOrg
posted by
locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 30.04.08
The winner of this year's Arthur C. Clarke Award for best SF novel first published in Britian in 2007 is Richard Morgan's Black Man (Gollancz). The announcement was made at a ceremony held in London on the opening night of the Sci-Fi-London film festival.» Arthur C. Clarke Award
» 2008 shortlist
posted by
locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 30.04.08
The May issue of Locus has interviews with Theodora Goss and Catherynne M. Valente, remembrances of the late Arthur C. Clarke, news of the Stoker and Nebula awards, reports from World Horror Con and ICFA, and reviews of new books by Walter Jon Williams, Jay Lake, Elizabeth Bear, Lou Anders, Jonathan Barnes, and others.
•
Table of Contents
Interviews, Data File, Listings, Obituaries, Reviews...
•
Locus Bestsellers
Banks, Butcher, Snyder, Traviss, Staten
•
New & Notable Books
Anderson, Egan, Holland, Le Guin, Park, Varley...
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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 28.04.08
Notable books in new paperback editions in April include Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind, Joe Hill's Heart-Shaped Box, and other titles by Greg Bear, Ben Bova, Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis, David P. Friedman, Fiona McIntosh, Allen Steele, Harry Turtledove, Sarah Zettel, and David Zindell.
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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 28.04.08
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's April Issue interview.
I think SF will end up getting subsumed into mainstream fiction. Mainstream steals more and more from it, without a shadow of a doubt, while at the same time screaming at the top of its voice that it's not science fiction. It's astonishing what convoluted logic they will apply.
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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 28.04.08
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's April Issue interview.
I find reality very boring. I have never had an idea for a story that did not somehow involve the supernatural, the science-fictional, or the fantastic in some way. But psychological realism is what I'm here for. If a story is going to provide anything more valuable than a couple hours' entertainment, it has to be psychologically true.
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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 27.04.08
Finalists for this year's Sidewise Awards for works of alternate history, include novels by Michael Chabon, Robert Conroy, Mary Gentle, Jay Lake, Sophia McDougall, and Jo Walton, but short fiction by Elizabeth Bear, Michael Flynn, Matthew Johnson, Jess Nevins, Chris Roberson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and John Scalzi. Winners will be announced in August at Denvention, the 66th World SF Convention in Denver, Colorado.
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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 26.04.08
Winners of this year's Nebula Awards, and other SFWA awards, include Michael Chabon, J.K. Rowling, Guillermo del Toro, Nancy Kress, Ted Chiang, and Karen Joy Fowler.
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locus_magazine
date: 4:00, 26.04.08
New SF/F/H books seen the third week of April include Lois McMaster Bujold's The Sharing Knife: Passage, Orson Scott Card's story collection Keeper of Dreams, Kurt Vonnegut's essay collection Armageddon in Retrospect, and other titles from Ilona Andrews, Robert Asprin, Robert Buettner, Karen Chance, Julie E. Czerneda, Martin H. Greenberg & Sarah A. Hoyt, Mercedes Lackey & Robert Gellis, Jamil Nasir, and Dan Ronco.