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11/19/09
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11/19/09
Another note, all these stories are seeing print for the first time but you will be seeing some of them again in award nomination lists and Year's Best anthologies.
Already looking forward to Eclipse Four!
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And kudos to Jeremy and Johnathan for getting that piece of vintage SF art by Richard Powers for the cover. Nice touch.
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...or go to Amazon.
06/10/09
I think Russell hit it on the head: Who cares about labels? If a writer is a good writer then it should matter if they are producing SF or romance or cookbooks - it's going to be good if they know their craft.
I personally think William Gibson's best book post-Neuromancer is Pattern Recognition, and I have a hard time seeing that as SF. But it's a good book. Stephenson's Cryptonomicon isn't SF, but it's a good book.
If the author is good, then labels really shouldn't matter. Their interests, as Griffith said, will still be a part of them and it will still color their later work. As a result I'll read just about anything she (Griffith) writes and tend to enjoy it. The same goes for Stephenson or Richard Grant (if anyone recognizes him - and I don't mean the actor) and various others.
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06/10/09
I seriously was going to finish an article for you guys tonight. Guess what it was about? Samuel R. Delany and Mary Doria Russell and why they should come back to us.
Granted, I had no interviews, just arguments.
Point being, I wanted to write it because I wanted to read it. This is why you are my favorite.
Speaking of favorites. I have had a hard on for Delany since I was 12 and yet I understand his leaving the genre. He left us with a lot to comb through and while being obvious science fiction, there was always something more going on. I won't rant, but I suggest that we all should read (or re-read) The Einsteinian Intersection.
Again, I love you Charlie.
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04/13/09
1) Many people have shown how the guy who's taking credit for it couldn't have done it and is just claiming he did 4 teh lulz.
2) The anti-gay thing doesn't take into account all the facts -- namely, the anti-disabled sex part. Said credit-claiming troll doesn't mention that, b/c it's gotten very little coverage.
3) it may have been a translation error by a non-English speaking Amazon editor. A cheese eating surrender monkey
See [www.lilithsaintcrow.com]
04/13/09
Not only have they banished the queer books, they have done the same to books on the sexuality of disabled people.
So, even if you're straight, if you're in a wheelchair or such, stop having sexual thoughts and for Jesus' sake, DON'T HAVE SEX, you disgusting imperfect cripples.
This little fact puts more weight on the "fundie anti-standard-sex" side than the "hax0rs 4 teh lulz" side.
04/13/09
Sure, a glitch. Books with gay or lesbian themes with NO explicit content whatsoever disappear, but books with sexually explicit, but heterosexual-oriented content are unaffected. Uh-huh. Funny glitch, that.
Some homophobe decided that everything gay and lesbian is automatically offensive, and this homophobe happened to be working at Amazon. That's all there is to it. The sooner they kill this policy, the more customers they'll get to keep.
04/13/09
If the troll theory is true (and it's plausible), then Amazon needs to hire more people to keep an eye out for such things. Get some nice Buddhists to work the Passover/Easter weekend.