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MIND MELD: Our “Desert Island” Graphic Novel Picks (Part 1)
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] When Mark London Williams and I decided to move our long running SF Site column Nexus Graphica to SF Signal, we decided that we needed to...
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MIND MELD: Our “Desert Island” Graphic Novel Picks (Part 2)
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] When Mark London Williams and I decided to move our long running SF Site column Nexus Graphica to SF Signal, we decided that we needed to...
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[GUEST POST] Brian Staveley on Bootlegging and Manure-Spreading: The Starting...
After teaching literature, philosophy, history, and religion for more than a decide, Brian Staveley began writing epic fantasy. His first book, The Emperor’s Blades (forthcoming from Tor on January...
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Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 1/23/2014
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Cover Art Awesomeness: KAIJU RISING Edited by Tim Marquitz and Nick Sharps
Ragnarok has posted the awesome Bob Eggleton cover art for their upcoming anthology Kaiju Rising by edited by Tim Marquitz and Nick Sharps. (Click the cover above for a larger version. It’s pretty...
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The Fantastic Foresight of Katherine MacLean
Over the last year, I’ve been trying to write more about the women who wrote SF throughout its history. We’ve seen a bunch: Francis Stevens, Margaret St. Clair, Judith Merrill, Leigh Brackett, C.L....
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Weird Westerns
Over at Kirkus Reviews this week, I take a look at some relatively recent weird westerns. Check it out! Related posts: The Troubled History of Weird Tales Magazine TOC: ‘Dead Man’s Hand: An Anthology...
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[GUEST POST] Amalie Howard on World-building in THE ALMOST GIRL
Amalie Howard grew up on a small Caribbean island where she spent most of her childhood with her nose buried in a book or being a tomboy running around barefoot, shimmying up mango trees and dreaming...
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Recommended Reading by Professionals…with Michael Rowe
In this series, I ask various publishing professionals (including authors, bloggers, editors, agents etc.) to recommend 2-3 authors or books they feel haven’t received the recognition they deserve....
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Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 1/24/2014
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Today at Kirkus: A Review of Lazarus One
This week on the Kirkus Reviews Blog, I take a look at Lazarus One from Image Comics. From the post: In the future, the world is split not into countries, but fiefdoms controlled by the Families. The...
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Cover & Synopsis: JOHN GOLDEN: FREELANCE DEBUGGER by Django Wexler
Check out the cover and synopsis of John Golden: Freelance Debugger, a techno fantasy noir novella by Django Wexler published by Ragnarok, coming out February 2014. John Golden is a debugger: he goes...
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Book Cover Smackdown! A MOUNTAIN WALKED vs. SHADOWS & TALL TREES: VOLUME 6...
It’s another Book Cover Smackdown! The theme this time around is short horror fiction books hitting shelves in June 2014. Your mission (should you choose to accept it): play art critic! Tell us what...
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In the interest of full disclosure, here are the books we received this week. Related posts: Books Received: January 20, 2014 Books Received: January 6, 2014 Books Received: January 13, 2014
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VIDEO PRIMER: Everything You Wanted This to Know About Conan The Barbarian...
Ehsan Knopf’s Finding Conan, a short documentary on Conan The Barbarian and his creator, Robert E. Howard, is a great primer on one of sword and sorcery’s greatest heroes. Watch the complete 14-minute...
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Exclusive Cover Reveal! GLAZE by Kim Curran
Here’s the cover art and synopsis of the upcoming young adult novel Glaze by Kim Curran, coming May 2014 from Jurassic London. There will also be a limited edition run of 75 copies. First, the...
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[GUEST POST] Bill Gourgey on The Great Romance of Technology
Bill Gourgey first got the bug for writing in college. He is now a full-time writer, mostly writing fiction, and a part-time technologist. His publications include Glide, a novel (Book 1 of a...
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Table of Contents: MAGIC CITY: RECENT SPELLS Edited by Paula Guran
Prime Books has posted the table of contents for the upcoming anthology Magic City: Recent Spells edited by Paula Guran: Here’s the book description: Bright lights, big city… magic spells, witchcraft,...
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[GUEST POST] Paul Kearney on The Road to Writing
Paul Kearney is the critically-acclaimed author of The Monarchies of God and the Sea Beggars series. He has been long-listed for the British Fantasy Award. His latest novels are A Different Kingdom...
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[GUEST REVIEW] Ben Blattberg on ONCE UPON A TIME: NEW FAIRY TALES Edited by...
Ben Blattberg is a freelance writer currently living in Texas. He blogs about movies and story structure at incremental-catastrophe.blogspot.com and makes jokes on Twitter @inCatastrophe. MY RATING:...
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