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    60 Years Of Strange Parables And Unsettling Discoveries, In One Volume

    Hear The Voices Behind 60 Years Of Fantastic Stories

    F&SF's Workshop Is Part Of An Effort To Reach Out To New Writers, Says Van Gelder

    Fantasy & Science Fiction's New Workshop Creates A Controversy

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    09/10/09

    In reply to 60 Years Of Strange Parables And Unsettling Discoveries, In One Volume
    Awesome, I will definitely pick this up. F&SF was my introduction to sci-fi literature, and I am glad it continues strong today.
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    09/09/09

    In reply to 60 Years Of Strange Parables And Unsettling Discoveries, In One Volume
    Thank you. Was trying to think what to get my sister for her birthday - not anymore!
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    09/10/09

    @dejarobin: YAY! I hope she loves it.
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    09/09/09

    In reply to 60 Years Of Strange Parables And Unsettling Discoveries, In One Volume
    Good stories, great price... although, since I have almost all of those already (in scattered volumes, incl. an older F&SF anth), I won't be buying this. At least not right now.
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    09/09/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Fair enough. But it is a great choice for young folks curious about what was written in the Before Times.
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    09/09/09

    In reply to 60 Years Of Strange Parables And Unsettling Discoveries, In One Volume
    Yes! Very excited about this book. Only $12.95 Cdn which is pretty reasonable for all that short fiction goodness.

    Thanks Grey Area for the great article.
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    09/09/09

    @it must be bunnies: Aw shucks, thanks!
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    09/09/09

    In reply to 60 Years Of Strange Parables And Unsettling Discoveries, In One Volume
    Looks like this might be worth getting. And it has caused me to have a revelation. I don't think that I would like someone who didn't get at least a little choked up at "Flowers for Algernon".
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    09/09/09

    @m_faustus: It makes an excellent litmus test for humanity or something, no?
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    09/09/09

    In reply to 60 Years Of Strange Parables And Unsettling Discoveries, In One Volume
    Thanks for the recommendation, I've read a few of these, but it has been at least a decade... I've been on a mission to read SF books that won a Hugo and Nebula award, I need a break! My collection from used book stores is looking a bit overwhelming; I think a short story anthology is exactly what I need.
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    09/09/09

    In reply to 60 Years Of Strange Parables And Unsettling Discoveries, In One Volume
    @Grey_Area: "Harlan Ellison®" Nice. Must admit to recently having ordered the Vic and Blood-anthology, loved that film, but never read the stories.
    I must, however, silently curse you, Chris; I just suffered a 4000 kroner pay-cut since I'm going to school, and buying books is the one true bane of my economy. ANOTHER for the list. Damn online book stores!!
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    09/09/09

    @jbq: Oooch! Sorry to hear that. I'm on instant noodles and baloney sandwiches myself these days.
    I'd never insist that you all buy everything I suggest. Maybe check out some similar works at the library until things pick up again. Books are wonderful, but if starving to death really reduces the ability to enjoy them.

    "Listen, kid, we're all in it together."
    --Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle, Brazil
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    09/09/09

    @Grey_Area: No, I have no will of my own, so I just buy whatever you say, Master. Seriously, I don't read as much Sci-Fi as I'd like, but I'm on a constant diet of Robin Hobb, George RR Martin, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. As well as some authors that I don't mention in public, categorized under guilty pleasure... Always looking to broaden my horizon, and this sounds like a good start.

    Will be noodles and sandwiches for me for the next four years, and no mistake..
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    09/09/09

    @jbq: So, more of a sword and sorcery kinda guy? What do you think of Scott Lynch or Joe Abercrombie? I think they might represent a new growth and sophistication to High Fantasy (in a foul-mouthed, bloody sorta way). Not unlike when Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah dragged the Western film out of the hokey white hat/black hat simplicity of earlier decades.
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    09/09/09

    @Grey_Area: Not onto Lynch yet, but just finished the last of the First Law trilogy. Really enjoyable stuff, and I absolutely agree on your assessment, very nice comparison!
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    09/09/09

    @jbq: My boss Alan Beatts of Borderlands Books pointed that one out. Him smart.
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    09/09/09

    @Grey_Area: I haz given your boss many of my moneys over the years at cons. MANY.
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    09/09/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: All our books are belong to you. Still have to pay for them of course, but they are all yours.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    09/09/09

    In reply to 60 Years Of Strange Parables And Unsettling Discoveries, In One Volume
    James Tiptree, Jr. would be an even wackier guy if she was a guy:
    [en.wikipedia.org]
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    09/09/09

    @AmishJohn: My "jokes", they are too subtle.
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    09/09/09

    @Grey_Area: I is not smart. Or subtle. You get used to it.
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    09/09/09

    In reply to 60 Years Of Strange Parables And Unsettling Discoveries, In One Volume
    For over forty years when folks ask me what the temperature is my answer has been, "It's X degrees, fondly Fahrenheit".
    But, 'Of Time and 3rd Ave' has always been a fave. There's something definitely Twilight Zone about that story - an odd world with a bare-bones background. It just feels too normal, yet subtley twisted.
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/09/09

    In reply to 60 Years Of Strange Parables And Unsettling Discoveries, In One Volume
    I don't know what Ted Chiang does for his day job, but he needs to quit it and get busy writing more slipstream or whatever the hell you want to call it.

    BTW, Mrs. Overclock (a.k.a. Dr. Overclock, Medicine Woman) tells me she works with his sister. She seems quite normal! (His sister, not my spousal unit.) :-)
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    09/09/09

    @Chip Overclock: By all reports, Mr. Chiang is quite satisfied with his gig as a technical writer in the software biz, thank you very much.
    Maddening, isn't it?
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    09/03/09

    In reply to Hear The Voices Behind 60 Years Of Fantastic Stories
    *adds to library reservations*
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    07/01/09

    In reply to F&SF's Workshop Is Part Of An Effort To Reach Out To New Writers, Says Van Gelder
    Hmm. You know, F&SF repeatedly turned down my submissions. Maybe I should spend some money and sign up for their workshop!


    Fortunately, I've got plenty of cash lying around, due to my success as an author of fantasy and science fiction short stories.

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    Image of radarskiy radarskiy
    06/30/09

    In reply to Fantasy & Science Fiction's New Workshop Creates A Controversy
    'the implication that a "pay-to-play" workshop is going to be the main entry point for new writers to F&SF is causing some consternation.'


    Would you care to offer a cite for whatever implies that? I don't have the August/September F&SF issue yet to read the original editorial and I don't see anything in the post by Paula R. Stiles that carries that implication.

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    07/01/09

    @radarskiy: It was more Sean Wallace's blog entry that was picking up that implication.
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