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    Strange Visitors And Broken Hearts Will Restore Your Faith In Short Fiction

    3 New Anthologies Bring Werewolves, ADD-Afflicted Drinking Birds, And Awesomeness

    4 Authors We Wish Would Return To Science Fiction

    The Future Of Human Knowledge Is A Joss Whedon Villain?

    Amazon.Com Banishes Queer SF Writers To A Null Dimension

    Zeppelins On Mars, Water Purification On Earth: Research Secrets Of Two SF Writers

    Science Fiction Writers Bust Out Of Lambda Scifi Category
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/19/09

    In reply to Strange Visitors And Broken Hearts Will Restore Your Faith In Short Fiction
    I've been finding short-story anthologies giving me more bang for my buck than novels the past year or two. And I don't think I read any of these Eclipses; trade paperbacks are too pricey.
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Strange Visitors And Broken Hearts Will Restore Your Faith In Short Fiction
    Look to find, I did.
    Where to buy?
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    11/19/09

    @phoghat: Oh duh. I added the link now. Here it is: [www.borders.com]]&searchData={productId:null,sku:null,type:0,sort:null,currPage:1,resultsPerPage:25,simpleSearch:true,navigation:0,moreValue:null,coverView:false,url:rpp%3D25%26view%3D2%26all_search%3Declipse%2Bthree%2Bstrahan%26type%3D0%26nav%3D0%26simple%3Dtrue,terms:{all_search%3Declipse+three+strahan}}&storeId=13551&sku=1597801623&ddkey=http:SearchResults
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    11/19/09

    @phoghat: I added the link to the bottom of the post....
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Strange Visitors And Broken Hearts Will Restore Your Faith In Short Fiction
    Hooray for the Eclipse series! I hope these yearly anthologies will win over more readers and writers to find the best that is possible in speculative fiction short stories.
    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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    11/19/09

    In reply to Strange Visitors And Broken Hearts Will Restore Your Faith In Short Fiction
    reading short fiction is laborious? what kind of a sci-fi fan are you?!??!
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    08/20/09

    In reply to 3 New Anthologies Bring Werewolves, ADD-Afflicted Drinking Birds, And Awesomeness
    Anthologies like Eclipse and Fast Forward seem to be filing part of the void left by the decline of fiction magazines.
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    08/20/09

    @Franklin Harris: I spoke to Jeremy Lassen of Night Shade Books and he is definitely trying for some of that. They recently became the publishing partner of Electric Velocipede to help keep venues for speculative fiction short stories alive in print.
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    08/20/09

    @Franklin Harris: That's my perception too... but on the other hand, you still need short fiction magazines to nurture new talent and provide stories for anthologies to reprint.
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    08/20/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders: Isn't Eclipse all unpublished stuff?
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    08/20/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders: Magazines are definitely better at nurturing new talent, but the anthologies we see now are increasingly publishing previously unpublished stories. I suspect one reason anthologies are supplanting mags is anthologies tend to offer more known talent for the reader's buck. But it could end up self-defeating is there's no place for new talent to become known.
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    08/20/09

    In reply to 3 New Anthologies Bring Werewolves, ADD-Afflicted Drinking Birds, And Awesomeness
    The first two volumes of Eclipse were truly great. What I really dig is that these are general Speculative Fiction, no themes. You ain't going to cotton to every single story, but I'll guarantee you'll find something you love that's not really "your type of story".

    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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    08/20/09

    In reply to 3 New Anthologies Bring Werewolves, ADD-Afflicted Drinking Birds, And Awesomeness
    And where might one find such gems? I'm going to blow a paycheck.
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    08/20/09

    @MosesMonster: Eclipse 3 comes out in October, as does Last Drink Bird Head Here's a link to the first two Eclipses: [nightshadebooks.com]
    ...or go to Amazon.
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    06/10/09

    In reply to 4 Authors We Wish Would Return To Science Fiction
    This is great post.


    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

    @Geoffrey Sperl: I LOVED Pattern Recognition.
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    06/10/09

    In reply to 4 Authors We Wish Would Return To Science Fiction
    Son of a bitch Charlie!


    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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    06/10/09

    @bronzeorchidsac: Oh yay! I'm glad you liked the post. And I'd be interested to see your arguments about why Delany and Russell should return to the genre...
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    05/17/09

    In reply to The Future Of Human Knowledge Is A Joss Whedon Villain?
    Well, it seems okay. I'm always forgetting how many ounces are in a cup, so that's pretty handy.
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    05/16/09

    In reply to The Future Of Human Knowledge Is A Joss Whedon Villain?
    Whenever someone claims that the thing they're working on will "change the way we think/feel/travel" there is a 95% chance they are wrong.
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    05/16/09

    @His_Steveness: This is Stephen Wolfram we're talking about, he believes that everything he does will "change the way we think/feel/travel." He and Dean Kamen need to have an ego-off.
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    05/16/09

    @rwald: Kamen at least gets some stuff to market and in physical, usable form. It doesn't change the world, but it is there and it works.
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    04/14/09

    In reply to Amazon.Com Banishes Queer SF Writers To A Null Dimension
    More here on the hack:


    [community.livejournal.com]

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    04/13/09

    In reply to Amazon.Com Banishes Queer SF Writers To A Null Dimension
    Again:


    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]

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    04/13/09

    In reply to Amazon.Com Banishes Queer SF Writers To A Null Dimension
    Something that isn't mentioned in most posts about this:


    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.

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    04/13/09

    In reply to Amazon.Com Banishes Queer SF Writers To A Null Dimension
    Whoever is responsible should be fired, and should never be allowed within a ten-mile radius of any literature-related industry ever again.


    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.

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    04/13/09

    @ParryLost: Yes, and the name of whoever did it should be made known so that everyone will know not to hire them. That person(s) is inappropriate to a free society. If they want to work in the publishing industry of Saudi Arabia, that's okay -- although, oops! you can't promote Christianity there. Well, I'm sure there's some tinpot dictator who'll hire them.


    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.

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