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    How Many Awards Does A Book Have To Win Before It Gets A Book Deal?

    Virtual Resurrection: The Dead Who Went To Cyber-Heaven

    The Science Fiction That Captured The Imaginations Of Charles Stross And Sonita Henry

    Clarke Award Honors Story Of Life And Death In The 21st Century
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    Image of PietroAerope PietroAerope
    07/13/09

    In reply to How Many Awards Does A Book Have To Win Before It Gets A Book Deal?
    This seems strikingly similar to how independent films are distributed. I wonder if books will end up with more film-like distribution deals. Publishers would only pick up award winning books. Hmmm.
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    Image of Mister_Bump Mister_Bump
    07/13/09

    In reply to How Many Awards Does A Book Have To Win Before It Gets A Book Deal?
    We as sci-fi fans love to bitch and moan that things like this don't get published, when 'crap' like Twilight does, but who, really is at fault? How many of us would actually go out and buy the winner of the Clark Award? Clearly not that many the publishers think (probably correctly) - we may all sneer at the 'tweenies' and their Twilight, but at least they buy the damn books!! Still, I assume Song of Time has been published in the UK? I'm going back home in a few weeks, so thanks to io9, I shall be searching out a copy whilst there!
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    Image of agentgray agentgray
    07/13/09

    @Mister_Bump: The scary thing is that it's not just tweenies who are buying up Twilight.



    I've found a lot of great literature that I never knew existed by coming to io9 and readings posts about obscure, but great titles.
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    Image of Mister_Bump Mister_Bump
    07/13/09

    @agentgray: Yeah, same here - I have read The Road thanks to io9, which was amazing and I'd probably never have heard of it (well, at least not until the film came out anyway) without them =)
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    Image of myrlin myrlin
    07/13/09

    @Mister_Bump:



    Most of my summer reading has come from here. I always double check the book review tags to make sure i didnt miss any new (old) gems.



    End of Eternity, 100%, Anathem, and a handful of others that were all great.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    06/08/09

    In reply to Virtual Resurrection: The Dead Who Went To Cyber-Heaven
    I remember liking Terminal Cafe by Ian McDonald, but it's been a long time since I read it.
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    Image of BrandonSweet BrandonSweet
    06/07/09

    In reply to Virtual Resurrection: The Dead Who Went To Cyber-Heaven
    In Hardwired, it's actually the character Reno, not Cowboy, who gets killed while interfaced and whose consciousness lives on in cyberspace.


    His electronic ambush at the end of the book is all kinds of awesome.

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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    06/07/09

    @BrandonSweet: Oh, let me fix that!
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    06/07/09

    In reply to Virtual Resurrection: The Dead Who Went To Cyber-Heaven
    No Dollhouse?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    06/07/09

    @octalass: I've seen every episode of Dollhouse. There's nobody whose brain survives in cyberspace. There are wedges, but that's different.
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    Image of Dominus Astra Dominus Astra
    06/07/09

    In reply to Virtual Resurrection: The Dead Who Went To Cyber-Heaven
    I read a humorous short story by Ted Chiang once, about a man whose digital afterlife was rudely interrupted during his "sexual endurance record tryout" by the managing corporation - his investments in real life had collapsed, leaving him unable to finance his further virtual life. He was given an option: Slowing down the processor speed (unacceptable, he would be out of sync with his still-living relatives); accept true death, or get a job as spam filter, the latter of which he accepted.
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    Image of nagumi nagumi
    06/07/09

    @Dominus Astra: I'd love to read that. Got a story name?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    06/07/09

    @nagumi: Actually, it's not by Ted Chiang, it's by David Langford, and it's linked to in my post... :)
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    Image of Dominus Astra Dominus Astra
    06/07/09

    @nagumi: Sorry, I only remembered that it was in a short story collection, all written by Ted Chiang (who I think is brilliant but underappreciated) I read the one story in the bookstore, so I felt a little guilty and hurried :). Can't remember the title of the book or the title of the story.


    Amazon search reveals that he's got only 1 short story collection, so I think it's this one:

    [www.amazon.com]


    But I can't be sure.


    PS: if not mistaken, that story is the first one in the collection

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    06/07/09

    @Dominus Astra: It's not by Ted Chiang. Your memories are deceiving you.
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    Image of HalOfBorg HalOfBorg
    06/07/09

    In reply to Virtual Resurrection: The Dead Who Went To Cyber-Heaven
    Arnold Judas Rimmer --- H
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    06/07/09

    @HalOfBorg: Yeah I thought about including him... not sure why I didn't. I guess because he's not really in cyberspace, he's just stuck as a hologram.
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    Image of cljohnston108 cljohnston108
    06/07/09

    In reply to Virtual Resurrection: The Dead Who Went To Cyber-Heaven
    Do Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs novels count? I mean, nobody really dies unless you destroy their cortical stack, otherwise they just get re-sleeved.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    06/07/09

    @cljohnston108: Thought about including them, but it seemed like they were more like getting a new body when you die, not uploading per se. Similar to Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom & whatnot.
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    06/07/09

    In reply to Virtual Resurrection: The Dead Who Went To Cyber-Heaven
    Am I the only one waiting for the day when the interweb looks like the one in Lawnmower man?
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    Image of Venusian Venusian
    04/30/09

    In reply to Clarke Award Honors Story Of Life And Death In The 21st Century
    What's gender got to do with it ? If I said something was great BUT female dominated you'd be all over me. It goes both ways.
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    Image of Arceus Arceus
    04/30/09

    @Venusian: Agreed, would be nice if we could keep the Jezebellian punditry out of our beloved io9. Thanks.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    04/30/09

    @Venusian: Considering how much science fiction suffers from the image of being a male-dominated field, any time you have a list like this that only lists male authors, it does real damage to science fiction. It's just part of making the field seem insular and like an old boys club, which nobody wants.
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    04/30/09

    @Arceus: You've been reading this site for how long now, and you've just noticed we have opinions about stuff?
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    04/30/09

    @Venusian: It doesn't matter any ways, because we fan-girls don't exist. We're like unicorns...Unicorns with sharp horns and hooves stained with the blood of the unbelievers and the soulless hoards of the Fox empire. We, the unreal, shall rise up and lead the mass of geeks and nerds into the promise land of space ships, sharks with lasers on them, and space beer. WE SHALL SMITE THE *tazer sound*.....sorry about that. I just get a little carried away.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    04/30/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders: Apparently he just now noticed you're women, too? And that this is a blog?


    One off-hand observation and someone's gotta get all scared that teh wimmins are gonna revolt...

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    04/30/09

    @LittleDragon: *starts humming inspirational background music*


    (then sneaks away before the taser reaches her)

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