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• The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman

  
  Once Upon a Geek — Authority: 492
  I recently picked up a very good book called The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman.  In five days I’ve read 240 pages, and I’m about 15 pages from finishing the book.  While I love reading, I’m rarely able to fly through a book this quickly unless I’m on vacation (which I’m not).  It’s a ...
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• Swanwick on the difference between fantasy and science fiction

  
  Open Buddha — Authority: 408
  In a recent interview , Michael Swanwick was asked about the difference between fantasy and science fiction, having written both (and winning awards for each as well). He stated: The essential difference, it seemed to me, was that science fiction occurs in a knowable universe. Human beings may or may not be ...
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• Book: Thirteen / Black Man. Richard K. Morgan

  
  Byte Size Biology — Authority: 485
  To say that Thirteen is a futuristic Chandlerian hardboiled-detective-fiction meets Gibson cyberpunk in a Swiftian satire of contemporary USA would be a cumbersomely loaded one-liner describing a no less loaded but sleekly streamlined novel. Saying that would also do injustice to Gibson, Chandler, Swift, the English ...
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• The Productions of Time by John Brunner

  
  pornokitsch — Authority: 124
  Im going to go out on a limb here and say that John Brunner wasnt so pleased with this book...
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• Flash reviews — November ‘09

  
  FROM A SCI-FI STANDPOINT — Authority: 403
  Title: Breaking PointAuthor: James E. GunnYear: 1972Rating: 3 out of 5 starsShort story collection with your standard range of quality: some good ones, some average ones, some poor ones. Solid reading, but nothing overly memorable.Title: In the Problem PitAuthor: Frederick PohlYear: 1976Rating: 3 out of [...]
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• New Releases: The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen

  
  pornokitsch — Authority: 124
  As a book collector, Im recommending a strong buy order on this one. The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet is a unique coming of age story with beautiful design - the ideal gift book released just in time for the holiday season. Tecumseh Sparrow Spivet is the cartographically-obsessed child of a cowboy and an ...
  6 days ago

• Fuzziness

  
  Kaet's Weblog — Authority: 120
  And so to my first forays into my husband’s library (which is great, but I’m still looking forward to the rest of my books arriving)! He does have lots of classic science fiction I haven’t come across before, however… 53. Little Fuzzy by H. Beam Piper 54. Fuzzy Sapiens by H. Beam Piper 55. ...
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• Lost Days – Post 37 (Win a free laptop!)

  
  R.W. Ridley — Authority: 128
  Read a book! Win a laptop computer! This is the 37 th installment of my new book (launch is in about a week) Lost Days.  I hope you’ve been reading carefully because the answer to the qualifying question is in one of the previous posts. Qualifying question for what?  For your chance to win a free laptop ...
  1 week ago

• Earth to Aliens: Forget It

  
  Idea of the Day — Authority: 582
  Friday | Todays idea: To alien colonizers from outer space, Earth really wouldnt look all that inhabitable, a science fiction writer says. What a fluke life on this planet truly is. [ Charlies Blog ]
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• City At Worlds End, 58 Years Later

  
  carlo.log — Authority: 103
  A while ago I’ve decided to do a little time travelling. In literature, that is. So I’ve picked up a novel called “City At World’s End” , written by one Edmond Hamilton . It’s a story about a little rural community in the US heartland having a “super-atomic bomb” go off above it, causing a rift in ...
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• Connie Wills: To Say Nothing of the Dog or How We Found the Bishop’s Bird stump at Last

  
  Mervi's Book reviews — Authority: 420
  Part of my 2nds challenge. I’ve only read the Doomsday book from Willis before. What a great book! It combines comedy, time travel, Victorian times, theories about history, detective novels, romance, and lots more. Ned Henry is an Oxford historian who has done too many time jumps between 1940s and the current day ...
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• Getting Cultured – Banksie heading for the big screen?

  
  The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log — Authority: 622
  There’s been a fair bit of talk on various science fiction and movie sites about the possibility that one of bestselling author Iain M Banks ‘ Culture tales could be headed for a movie adaptation. I’ve double checked with Iain and he’s confirmed that a deal has indeed been struck for the short story A Gift ...
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• Zombies, classics and you

  
  Jacket Copy — Authority: 683
  Even if it makes Jane Austen roll over in her grave, "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" -- a mash-up version of her classic written by Seth Grahame-Smith -- has been taking a bite out of bestseller lists since its release.  "Subconsciously, Austen was writing a horror novel and didnt know it,"Grahame-Smith told the ...
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• November Mangakissa

  
  Forging an Art — Authority: 106
  Up at BSCreview .  It was supposed to be October, but such is life . . .
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• Asimov estate authorizing trilogy of sequels to I, ROBOT

  
  The Knight Shift — Authority: 139
  Isaac Asimov - perhaps the most prolific writer of the Twentieth Century and especially regarded for his contributions to science fiction - passed away in 1992. Its now being announced that Asimovs estate has given the official go-ahead for a trilogy of sequel novels to his acclaimed I, Robot series. The books will ...
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• PW’s books of the year

  
  The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log — Authority: 622
  Publisher’s Weekly has posted up its annual best 100 books of the year list (yes, its now November – already?! – and we’re moving into that time of year when we’ll all be talking about our faves of the year). Nestling among the entries is the unusual European bestseller which recently came out in English in ...
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• Do I look like someone you can come home to from where you may be going?: re-mapping interracial anxiety in Octavia Butler’s Kindred.: An article from: African American Review

  
  Science Fiction Buzz Blog — Authority: 149
    Mail this post Technorati Tags: african , African American science fiction writers , american , anxiety , article , butlers , come , from , going , home , interracial , kindred , like , look , octavia , Octavia Butler , octaviaxenogenesis , remapping , review , Science Fiction Books , science ...
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• Lost Days – Post 36

  
  R.W. Ridley — Authority: 128
  Read a book! Win a laptop computer! This is the 36 th installment of my new book, Lost Days .  The Advance Reader Copies have been printed and are on their way to me.  I’ve giving some free copies out to the folks who have joined the Lost Days Facebook group.  They’re also the only ones eligible to enter a ...
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• Utopias of old, solutions for the new millennium: a comparative study of Christian fundamentalism in M.K. Wren’s A Gift Upon the Shore and Octavia Butler’s … the Sower.: An article from: Utopian Studies

  
  Science Fiction Buzz Blog — Authority: 149
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• Book Review: Mass Effect Ascension

  
  Secure Immaturity — Authority: 122
  When you step away from fiction for half a decade like I did and then immerse yourself back into it you realize how atrophied your brain comes to simple imagination. Whether we like it or not, the world has become obsessed with the visual medium. Why imagine something when someone can just show it to you. But even in ...
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