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Uber-Geekt: NPR flow-charts the top 100 SF & F books for ya
Well, this chart has been around for a while, but remains totally worth the time-suck it’ll do to your day. Link to it at the always-useful SF Signal, where they offer several versions, including the new, improved interactive variety. Hours of … Continue reading
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Author Paolo Bacigalupi (Ship Breaker) talks the why and what-it’s-good-for of SF
A great interview w/ Paolo B. from the Publisher’s Weekly info-packed site. Good insights into writing for adults vs YA, as well as general thoughts on sci fi and the mercurial meaning(s) of the oft-abused term”dystopia.” From publishersweekly.com: … Continue reading
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Ice of the beholder
re: Vostok – here’s some hard science being done by NASA. The arty is on the astrobiology mag. site. (And then there’s the on-going scrum of: the use of terms exo- vs. astrobiology in- and outside the SF realm. More … Continue reading
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Brooding cyborgs, twisted science….
Award-winning publishing house Angry Robot is concocting a spankin’ new Young Adult SF & F imprint, set to debut in the fall of this year. (More about why I find this… interesting… at a later date….) Dubbed Strange Chemistry, this … Continue reading
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cold, dark, wet… alive?
I’ve been following the Lake Vostok story off and on – last I heard the Russian crew had penetrated thru the last few meters, broke thru, pulled the rig up & let the trapped lake water pressure-rise up into the … Continue reading
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