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    Get Exposure (In Your Trunk) And Profit (For The Publisher) The Vanity Press Way!

    Independent Publishers Who Are Reinventing The Future

    Fishing For Mermaids And Displaying Your Prehensile Tail For Strangers: It's A Living, Sort Of

    Our Love For Steampunk Is A Longing For Machines That Don't Suck

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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get Exposure (In Your Trunk) And Profit (For The Publisher) The Vanity Press Way!
    as always...The Onion has a timely solution:
    [www.theonion.com]
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    Image of ♠ Final ♠ ♠ Final ♠
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get Exposure (In Your Trunk) And Profit (For The Publisher) The Vanity Press Way!
    Just send a message (and all your disposible income,) if you have an Invention you'd like to see turned into a reality. I publish books, name stars and sell bridges as well. Just click ♠Final♠ to find out more.
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    Image of gods-n-clods gods-n-clods
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get Exposure (In Your Trunk) And Profit (For The Publisher) The Vanity Press Way!
    Small Beer, have you met my friend Comixpress.com?
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    Image of ManchuCandidate ManchuCandidate
    11/23/09

    In reply to Get Exposure (In Your Trunk) And Profit (For The Publisher) The Vanity Press Way!
    Better yet, just send me the money. I can put it to better use and I'll even send you photos the crazy ass weekend in Las Vegas (extra if you want photos from the strip clubs) that I went on with your money.

    If you fall for this scam (like anyone who sends their information to a Nigerian Prince) then you don't really need it anyway.
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    11/23/09

    @ManchuCandidate: are they color photos?
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    Image of TotalFanGirl TotalFanGirl
    11/23/09

    @ManchuCandidate: I would never fall for this or the Nigerian Prince scam. I mean, real money only comes from English barristers who have found me after long and tedious genealogical searches. I received a lovely email from one just the other day and expect a large deposit in my account by the weekend.
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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    11/21/09

    In reply to Independent Publishers Who Are Reinventing The Future
    A solid half of my Lansdale collection is from Subterranian. While I absolutely HATE, HATE, HATE the cover art on pretty much every one, it's nice to know those limited are out there.
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    11/20/09

    In reply to Independent Publishers Who Are Reinventing The Future
    must buy shatner book!
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    11/20/09

    In reply to Independent Publishers Who Are Reinventing The Future
    Also Threat Quality Press. We have published ONE WHOLE BOOK!
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    Image of Ruthless, If you let me Ruthless, If you let me
    11/20/09

    @braak: and a HALF! Holland's was sorta out, and then not out right?
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    11/20/09

    @Ruthless, If you let me: Yes, true, technically! Technically it's a book and a half!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/20/09

    In reply to Independent Publishers Who Are Reinventing The Future
    Eraserhead gets an automatic win because of the Shatner Quake. Dear sweet jeebus.
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/20/09

    In reply to Independent Publishers Who Are Reinventing The Future
    I would call this a post that starts with a image that makes you wanna run away. But the hashtag was to long.
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    Edited by Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. at 11/20/09 1:09 PM Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/18/09

    In reply to Fishing For Mermaids And Displaying Your Prehensile Tail For Strangers: It's A Living, Sort Of
    Reminds me of a button and t-shirt I used to see at a lot of cons:

    "Magical Realism" is just Spanish for science fiction and fantasy.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/17/09

    In reply to Fishing For Mermaids And Displaying Your Prehensile Tail For Strangers: It's A Living, Sort Of
    Good point about Magic Realism. I've always thought that if you took nearly any Ray Bradbury story (ok, one without rocketships) and changed all the names to Spanish or Brazillian equivalents you could pass it off as a piece by Gabriel Garcia Marquez or Moacyr Scilar. #magicalrealism
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/17/09

    @Grey_Area: Funny, I had a similar experience reading that recent collection of stories from 60 years of FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION. Mrs. Overclock (etc.) asked me what they were like (no doubt trying to decide whether to abscond with it for her own reading stack). I told her: "Slipstream is not a new idea." #magicalrealism
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    11/17/09

    @Chip Overclock: But you liked the anthology in general, right? #magicalrealism
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/18/09

    @Grey_Area: Absolutely. Recommended.

    I like Slipstream even though I can't define it. And any new story by Ted Chiang is definitely worth my time.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    11/17/09

    In reply to Fishing For Mermaids And Displaying Your Prehensile Tail For Strangers: It's A Living, Sort Of
    Advanced as we think we are, we decide that such conventionally unexplainable phenomena are the province of the superstitious, backward, third world, unenlightened.

    Following this logic, Marquez, Borjes and Isabel Allende are backward and unenlighted? Let's remember that it was a Venezuelan writer that coined the term. #magicalrealism
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    11/17/09

    @BadUncle: That may be true, but "magical realism" has become very trendy among writers/critics of European descent as a way of categorizing a whole swathe of fiction with supernatural elements. These days, it's sort of fetishized, or at least that's what Reyes seems to be saying. #magicalrealism
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    11/17/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders: Then it's a term that's misappropriated. #magicalrealism
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    Image of allium allium
    11/17/09

    In reply to Fishing For Mermaids And Displaying Your Prehensile Tail For Strangers: It's A Living, Sort Of
    The woman whose upper half flies off is a manananggal:

    [en.wikipedia.org]

    They feed off the blood of pregnant women and their fetuses; hence the irony of her trying to become pregnant herself.

    Also, ew. #magicalrealism
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    Image of goldfarb goldfarb
    11/17/09

    In reply to Fishing For Mermaids And Displaying Your Prehensile Tail For Strangers: It's A Living, Sort Of
    "Advanced as we think we are, we decide that such conventionally unexplainable phenomena are the province of the superstitious, backward, third world, unenlightened."

    I think this speaks to the widening fracture between science/technology and everyday experience...we don't really experience science/technology - we experience it's effects.

    understanding the science of TV is harder than believing in the "magic-vision-box"...and less instinctive. A flat earth is what we experience, not a sphere rotating at a 1000mph orbiting a star at 70000 mph.
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    Image of Chris Barrus Chris Barrus
    05/28/09

    In reply to Our Love For Steampunk Is A Longing For Machines That Don't Suck
    I think part of it has to be the pride of work well done. In steampunk you know that Captain Nemo's submarine isn't going to have a faulty starter: it will be a handmade, beautifully tooled piece of equipment.


    Huh? I believe the attraction here is for machines who aren't necessarily reliable but clearly idiosyncratic.

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/28/09

    @Chris Barrus: Agreed. It won't be mass-produced, so it will seem prettier, but it won't be any less faulty. Likely to break down more often, in fact, and be much harder to replace than standardized equipment.
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