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Author Paolo Bacigalupi (Ship Breaker) talks the why and what-it’s-good-for of SF

A great interview w/ Paolo B. from the Publisher’s Weekly info-packed site. Good insights into writing for adults vs YA, as well as general thoughts on sci fi and the mercurial meaning(s) of the oft-abused term”dystopia.”     From publishersweekly.com: … Continue reading

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Ice of the beholder

re: Vostok – here’s some hard science being done by NASA. The arty is on the astrobiology mag. site. (And then there’s the on-going scrum of: the use of terms exo-    vs. astrobiology in- and outside the SF realm. More … Continue reading

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Brooding cyborgs, twisted science….

Award-winning publishing house Angry Robot is concocting a spankin’ new Young Adult SF & F imprint, set to debut in the fall of this year. (More about why I find this… interesting… at a later date….) Dubbed Strange Chemistry, this … Continue reading

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cold, dark, wet… alive?

I’ve been following the Lake Vostok story off and on – last I heard the Russian crew had penetrated thru the last few meters, broke thru, pulled the rig up & let the trapped lake water pressure-rise up into the … Continue reading

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