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more about #nicolagriffith Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: 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 Ecli... more » JimBonJovi: That's a cracking good cover. more » phoghat: Look to find, I did. Where to buy? more » Biku: If reading short fiction is labourious, how do you ever handle a novel? But if you mean reading an *anthology* is labourious, then I totally back you ... more » Grey_Area: 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... more » Barnabus: I just picked up Strahan's annual anthology of the year's best sci-fi and fantasy, so I'm glad to hear that I'm in good hands. These days I'm as likel... more » tetracycloide: reading short fiction is laborious? what kind of a sci-fi fan are you?!??! more » Franklin Harris: Anthologies like Eclipse and Fast Forward seem to be filing part of the void left by the decline of fiction magazines. more » Grey_Area: 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 cott... more » MosesMonster: And where might one find such gems? I'm going to blow a paycheck. more » Geoffrey Sperl: 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 produci... more » bronzeorchidsac: 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 Russ... more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: Well, it seems okay. I'm always forgetting how many ounces are in a cup, so that's pretty handy. more » His_Steveness: 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. more » bonniegrrl: More here on the hack: [community.livejournal.com] more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: 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 ... more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: 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 sexualit... more » ParryLost: 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 gl... more » Pope John Peeps II: There's something strange about taking a real thing which affects a lot of people and then saying "this affected science fiction writers". It's sort o... more » twophrasebark: If this is really an issue of tags run amok (I don't think it is), then the best way to combat it is to start tagging everything as adult. more » -
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Strange Visitors And Broken Hearts Will Restore Your Faith In Short Fiction
If you believe in reading short fiction for pleasure, you're condemned to frequent disappointment. Most short fiction, even the good stuff, is... laborious. So when reading the anthology Eclipse Three, you may be startled at the unexpected sensation of enjoyment.
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#anthologieswecrave
3 New Anthologies Bring Werewolves, ADD-Afflicted Drinking Birds, And Awesomeness
This may be the best era for original anthologies since the days of Dangerous Visions. Jonathan Strahan announced the final list of contributors for Eclipse 3, and it's made of want. Other anthologies promise down-and-dirty werewolves, and stellar flash fiction. More » -
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4 Authors We Wish Would Return To Science Fiction
Some of our favorite science fiction authors appear to have left SF behind, after creating stories that live with us forever. We asked Nicola Griffith, Karen Joy Fowler, Samuel R. Delany and Mary Doria Russell why they left the genre. More » -
#futurebrains
The Future Of Human Knowledge Is A Joss Whedon Villain?
A new search engine promises to gather all "computational knowledge" and make you an instant expert on any topic. So why does it have the ominous Joss-Whedon-villain name Wolfram Alpha? More » -
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Amazon.Com Banishes Queer SF Writers To A Null Dimension
Online books retailer Amazon.com erased untold numbers of books with mature or queer themes from its site, apparently in a drive to remove "adult" material. And some science-fiction authors were hit hard.
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Zeppelins On Mars, Water Purification On Earth: Research Secrets Of Two SF Writers
The most irksome aspect of writing a science fiction story is often the research. Sometimes you have the perfect story, but it's based on junk science. Here's how Caitlin Kiernan and Nicola Griffith handled it. More »
