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Monthly Archives: July 2007
F&SF go blogging
The Magazine of Fantasy and SF is giving away a certain number of copies of the September issue to bloggers to cover. The terms are: 1) Go to our “Contact Us” page: http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/contact.htm 2) Tell us where to mail your … Continue reading
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The mechanics of illusion
I caught up with the The Illusionist yesterday and its once of those films that takes it time to seep in. Like The Prestige, it concerns itself with the mechanics of illusion though it never reveals its best work. It … Continue reading
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Cory Doctorow, Fair Use Day and Print Crimes
Cory Doctorow has declared today, July 11th, Fair Use Day. I’m sure that Cory (actually I’ve heard him speak on the subject so I know he would) would put this more eloquently but any restrictions of Fair Use are, frankly, … Continue reading
Charles Stross on History
Charles Stross has this great piece on the future of history on the BBC site. A thoughtful and quite unsettling piece, all in all. As far I as I remember from the podcast recorded a while ago with him, the idea … Continue reading
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Spooked Centuries
William Gibson’s next novel, Spook Country, is due in August and it sounds like an awesome one: set one year in the past. The College Crier has an interview which both Futurismic and BoingBoing are linking to here but it … Continue reading
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Talking Heads – Adam Roberts interviewed
Adam Roberts’s first novel was Salt which was shortlisted for the Clarke award. He has published several novels, parodies and studies of sf since then as well as having a job as a Professor of English. Given your day job, … Continue reading
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Mad Ginger People in the Wilderness
Just saw Ginger Snaps Back which was on the box last night. Its kind of nice to catch up with that little series again, certainly after seeing Katharine Isabelle in Supernatural a couple of weeks ago. Despite being the third … Continue reading
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Through the Looking Glass – Alice day in Oxford
In one of those serendiptous moments, I discovered that there was an Alice day being organised for today by the Story Museum, a virtual museum which celebrates telling stories until a building can be built in Oxford. Alice is too … Continue reading
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Setting the pages on fire – Chris Roberson interviewed
Chris Roberson’s excellent novel, Set the Seas on Fire, is to be published shortly by Solaris. I’ve just reviewed it for Interzone and really cannot recommend it highly enough. His novella, Voyage of Night Shining White was reviewed a little … Continue reading
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The Deathly Howl
JK Rowling said that she was sad to write the final words of Deathly Hallows and wrote them in a hotel. Apparently scar is not the final word as had been surmised but it is near the end. I’m still … Continue reading
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