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What’s the Next Big Thing? Or: I See A Tall Dark Carbon-Based Life Form in Your Future…
So, how big… is big? One of the more popular (and never-ending) games in publishing, and the entertainment industry in general, is “What’s the next Big Thing?” It’s right up there with “What Should We Call Our Band?” Of course, … Continue reading
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Internet, schminternet…. Books Shockingly NOT Dead.
How many times have you heard that the net has sucked every last drop of inky-black blood from the veins of our poor old novels and books and reading-by-short-attention-span-humans in general? Well, turns out it just ain’t so. In … Continue reading
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Death and the maiden: The Book Thief
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Publisher: Knopf Year: 2007 Pages: 576 First off, this isn’t a review of Zusak’s marvelous book. It’s a query, of sorts. I suspect many of you out there have already … Continue reading
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Harry Potter author to her lit agent: “Dude-amus begon-amus!”
The drama of J.K. Rowling’s decision to part ways with her long-time agent is covered (somewhat breathlessly…) by the UK’s Daily Mail. But there’s a buried gem inside the larger story: the tale of how Rowling’s initial HP manuscript submission had … Continue reading
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Home base….
So, for those with a love of old homes: the Schoon ranchito-house in her summer greenery. Aerial (well, cherry-picker-assisted) shot, lookin’ east. And the place post-snowfall. You can just about hear the sleigh-bells… … Continue reading
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you say exo, I say astro, let’s call the whole thing xeno…
Here’s some word-parsing (and worse…) re: the astro- exo- conundrum from a few different sites. Lots of overlap, I gotta say. But in the end, Cornell sorts it out for us. From the Astrobiology Web site: http://www.astrobiology.com/how.to.html Astrobiology seeks to … Continue reading
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Got a book-like-thing in ya? Let’s chat.
Sure. I wrote a book. Fine. Great. Then I took a couple years or so to sweet-talk, cajole, threaten and finally choke-hold the thing into the kind of shape an agent would actually take the time to look … Continue reading
Come in, SF, and take a seat. We need to talk.
Multi-award-winning author Elizabeth Bear gives our favorite literary realm a much-needed talking to over at clarksworldmagazine.com about how science fiction has come to take itself much too seriously lately, its obsession with worlds Dark, Depressive and Generally Ill-Humored and … Continue reading
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Uber-Geekt: NPR flow-charts the top 100 SF & F books for ya
Well, this chart has been around for a while, but remains totally worth the time-suck it’ll do to your day. Link to it at the always-useful SF Signal, where they offer several versions, including the new, improved interactive variety. Hours of … Continue reading
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