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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Watching the Stars from the Gutter
Both Ariel at Genre Files and the estimable Paul Raven over at Velcro City Tourist Board have airing the genre as ghetto and to some extent questioning how non-fan readers get to know of new genre books. They both point out that … Continue reading
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Subtle Edens get Elastic
Andrew Hook over at the great indie press, Elastic Press, has a call out for submissions to their latest anthology, Subtle Edens. Its an intriguing premise about slipstream fiction and looks like being a worthwhile collection.
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Fairy tales
SF Crowsnest has an article on the BBC filming and updating some fairy tales which sounds intriguing. Â I’m in two minds as the updates tend to miss out darker aspects and be fluffy – an extension of the Disney effect … Continue reading
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Audio panel – Doctorow, Baker, Scalzi and Turtledove
Cory Doctorow over on BoingBoing has posted an audio link from a panel that he was on with Harry Turtledove, Kage Baker and John Scalzi called “Science Fiction: The Road from Here to There” MP3 Link
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Kai Meyer interviewed
Kai Meyer’s great new series which Egmont are translating into English features pirates, the fantastic and quite a few mysteries. Egmont were kind enough to arrange interview with him for me. You place Munk in a strange ethical position at … Continue reading
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An alternative career for Mr Gaiman?
Neil Gaiman posted this bit of YouTube fun just in case his writing career doesn’t work out for him…
Golden Compass trailer and bits
Those excellent folk over at HisDarkMaterials.org are at Cannes for the press junket about a certain film. They’ve got a fun link to the trailer and some interview footage about the movie on the ubiquitous YouTube.
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Monstrous Bodies, New Writing
Paul di Filippo has posted the introduction that he wrote to the Monstrous Bodies chapbook about new writing and the energy and zest that they have for the world and their art. Its a great read on writing fiction. technorati … Continue reading
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Elizabeth Hand interviewed on YouTube.
Paul Witcover over on the Inferior Four blog has this link to a You Tube interview of Elizabeth Hand talking about her novel, Generation Loss, growing up in NYC and punk. You Tube link
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Chinese History of the SF?
There is a great hoax book called An Alternative History of Chinese Science Fiction over the No Fear of the Future blog which I heartily commend as an intriguing and loving read. technorati tags:chinese sf
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