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12.15 2001 SF Novels
12.15 2001 Fantasy/
Horror Novels
12.15 2001 Short Fiction
12.15 New in Trade Paperback
12.15 New in Mass Market Paperback
12.15 Classic Novels in Print
12.15 Classic Stories in Print
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19 Mar
1 May
13 May
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23 Aug
10 Dec
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12.22
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Keith Allen Daniels dies
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12.18
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Scott Imes dies; Harry Potter parody published; More Best of 2001 lists; New York Times on book prices; Odyssey Workshop announcement
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12.11
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OED does SF; Best of 2001 from Washington Post and Amazon editors; workshop announcement
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12.07
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iPublish suspends; Betsy Mitchell to lead Del Rey; William Jovanovich and Juan Arreola die; announcements
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12.01
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New York Times's Best Books of 2001; Rotsler Award and website; Viable Paradise class picture
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11.21
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Cordwainer Smith Award presented • The Infinite Matrix relaunches • PW's and San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2001 lists • Morrow and Sawyer announcements
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11.11
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Le Guin and Marley win Endeavour Award
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11.09
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Artist/illustrator Gray Morrow dies
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11.04
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Powers, Stewart, Duncan among 2001 World Fantasy Awards winners
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11.04
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James White Award winner; Amazon.com's Best of 2001; the Asimov-bin Laden connection
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10.30
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Artist Josh Kirby dies
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10.19
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Adventures in Crime & Space needs help
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10.17
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Milton A. Rothman dies; Sean Stewart wins Sunburst Award; other international awards; publishing news; announcements
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9.24
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Miéville, Lebbon, Newman win British Fantasy Awards; Aboriginal SF folds
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9.21
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Letters from New York City
Plus a bookstore party in San Francisco; Perspectives on the Attacks
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9.17
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Report from New York City by Marleen Barr
"I can't believe it. I can't believe it. This is a science fiction novel. I am in a science fiction novel."
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9.15
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Updates from New York City
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9.11
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Reports from New York City
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9.11
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Jack Williamson receives his Hugo; Prometheus, International Horror Guild awards winners; news about John Silbersack, the Planetary Society, Terry Pratchett; workshop announcement; job opportunity
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9.03
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Rowling, Williamson, Rusch, Langford win Hugo Awards; plus Campbell New Writer, Cordwainer, Chesley, Seiun, Spectrum, Golden Duck, Big Heart, First Fandom winners
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9.01
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1951 Retro Hugo Awards winners announced; Mary Gentle, Ted Chiang win Sidewise Awards
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8.28
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Michael Kaluta art missing; story contest announcement; Kelly Link play; Odyssey workshop photo
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8.22
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Sir Fred Hoyle dies
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8.17
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British Fantasy Award nominations; Kazakhstan crackdown; Campbell Conference report; market report; job opportunity
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8.11
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Jack Williamson celebrates 93rd birthday; Clarion West graduates 17 students; Locus staff news; Mythopoeic, Mark Time and Ogle, other awards; Poul Anderson links; Jorge Amado, James Bernard die
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8.04
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World Fantasy Awards Nominations
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8.01
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Poul Anderson, 1926 - 2001
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7.23
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Sunburst Award shortlist; Bulwer-Lytton winners
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7.20
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Book jacket designer Fred Marcellino dies; Resnick, Sawyer, others win HOMer Awards; Syne Mitchell wins Compton Crook Award; Weird Tales story contest
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7.17
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Hugo voting deadline extended; some online votes lost
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7.13
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Rock performer Alice Cooper named Living Legend by Horror Guild; additional Guild nominees; Endeavour Award finalists; Rhysling and Lasswitz winners; Publishing and bookselling news
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7.11
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Anderson, McDonald win Campbell, Sturgeon Awards
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7.07
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Locus Awards Winners
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7.02
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Tove Jannson, Mortimer Adler die; Neil Gaiman's publicity campaign; Bruce Sterling edits Whole Earth; Dark Delicacies profile
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6.27
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Supremes favor authors' rights; Amazon drops most discounts; HOMer ballot; announcements
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6.14
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Broad Universe launch; two Prometheus Awards announced; Seiun, Cordwainer Awards lined up for Worldcon
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6.06
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Douglas Adams, C.S. Lewis publishing plans; The Onion's BookExpo report; Lambda, Firecracker book awards; Announcements
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5.28
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Bram Stoker Awards Winners
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5.28
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Sturgeon Award finalists; Hall of Fame inductees
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5.26
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Analog and Asimov's Reader Awards; Finalists for Mythopoeic, Phantastic, and Sidewise Awards; James White Award judges; e-Reads debuts; Area (19)51 FilmFest
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5.20
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China Miéville wins Arthur C. Clarke Award
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5.17
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More Douglas Adams links; Gaylactic Spectrum Awards finalists; Le Guin Prize announcement
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5.14
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Douglas Adams links; Aurora Awards winners; Judy Watson dies; Michael Burstein elected; Redsine back to print
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5.12
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Hitchhiker's Guide author Douglas Adams dies
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May News Log—
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5.07
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Morton Klass dies; China Miéville arrested; Neil Gaiman's Nebula remarks online; free fiction from Fictionwise and Stealth; Lansdale wins Edgar; Golden Duck nominees; anthology invitation
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4.29
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2000 Nebula Awards to Bear, Nagata, Williams, Bisson, and Galaxy Quest
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4.30
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Nebula Awards Weekend Photos
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4.26
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1951 Retro Hugo Awards Nominations
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4.26
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2001 Hugo Awards Nominations
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April News Log—
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4.30
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Cordwainer Smith Award announced; Spectrum art award results; Pullman and Rowling win UK awards
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4.25
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Danielewski, Ballard win awards; Ditmar winners; Hiroshi Teshigahara dies
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4.23
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Pierre Versins dies; Publishing deals; Aurealis for sale
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4.17
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Michael Chabon wins Pulitzer; Mary Gentle, Peter F. Hamilton, Dominic Harman win British SF Awards
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4.10
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Frazetta Museum to open; Future Fantasy Books to close; Slamdance SciFi.com screenplay competition; SFWA Bradbury Award; Compton Crook finalists; Prometheus finalists; Sheila Williams promoted; Baen Books e-publishing
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4.14
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Michael Marshall Smith wins Philip K. Dick Award
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4.03
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2000 Bram Stoker Nominations
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News Log—
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3.26
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ConJosé to award Best Website
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3.24
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R. Chetwynd-Hayes dies; Jenna Felice memorials; Aurora nominees
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3.16
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Molly Gloss wins Tiptree Award for Wild Life
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Ditmar nominations; Ellison fights Internet piracy; Jenna A. Felice dies; Lasswitz nominations; China Miéville runs for Parliament; SF Site's Best of 2000; Stoker Preliminary ballot; Aurealis Awards; Williamson Lectureship
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3.07
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Final Nebula Ballot
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Announcements—
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3.27
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Voting deadlines; Sawyer workshop; Tiptree judges
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3.06
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SFWA signings; 2001 PKD Award judges; KC SFF Society anniversary; Ellen Datlow seeks horror
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2.24
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News Log
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Le Guin, Pullman win awards; Best of 2000; Richard Laymon dies; Robert Sheckley named SFWA Author Emeritus; Philip José Farmer named SFWA Grand Master; Rick Shelley dies; preliminary Nebula ballot; Announcements: Jack Williamson Lectureship, Wilson 'Bob' Tucker Tribute
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2.04
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Clarke Award, British SF Award shortlists
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2.01
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Gordon R. Dickson, 1923 - 2001
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1.13
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Philip K. Dick Award Nominations
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Chronology 2000 | 2001 | 2000 Best Books Tally
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Field Inspections | SFFH reviews in general publications
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12.19
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USA Today on alternate histories; Jim Munroe • Becoming reacquainted with Tolkien; Harrius Potter; Bradbury and Barker reviews
• Neil Gaiman's comfort fiction; what Michael Dirda wants for Christmas; why Rowling isn't for adults; reviews of Mike Ashley's bio of Algernon Blackwood and J.G. Ballard's stories; profile of Lemony Snicket
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11.30
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Mosley, Ballard, Le Guin, Walton, Joshi, O'Leary • Wyndham, Ballard, Sallis, Gold • Ballard times four; Barker two, Pullman two, Tolkien, Link, and Flynn one • Kelly Link in Salon • More reviews of Ballard, Hogan, Barker, King & Straub • What Clarke, Bradbury, Brin, and Wolfe have to say about 9/11 • Tolkien letters, Landis's Mars hopper, Landis and de Lint PW reviews
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10.31
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Clute on Le Guin, Murphy; Maslin on Barker; Moorcock essay; King & Straub; Joan Aiken; Richard Lupoff; Ellison on Bradbury; Neil Gaiman's enviable job; Le Guin's revised Earthsea; Jonas on Banks, Le Guin, and McHugh after the attacks; Easterbrook defends Lewis; reviews of Robert Charles Wilson, King & Straub, a Rowling bio, and Eva Hoffman
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9.26
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Reviews of King & Straub, Anderson, McAuley, Boyle, Iain Sinclair, Glen David Gold; Moorcock's Top 10 SF novels; Dean Koontz's e-poems; Ray Bradbury interviews; Langford on Anderson; Philip Pullman's UK and US success; Jonas reviews Wilson, Hendrix, Robinson, Zubrin
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8.28
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Reviews of Kelly Link, Ray Vukcevich, Paul Di Filippo, King & Straub; Stephen Chambers, Michael Moorcock, Robyn Williams, Ursula Le Guin, Jasper Fforde, Adam Roberts, Maureen F. McHugh; interviews/profiles of J.G. Ballard, Paul Levinson, Vernor Vinge, Samuel R. Delany, Douglas Adams, Lewis Shiner, Molly Gloss, Stephen Baxter
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7.31
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Donna McMahon, Liz Williams; Tolkien's poetry; Clive Barker; Andrew Crumey, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Frederik Pohl, Neil Gaiman, C.S. Lewis, Harry Turtledove; Dan Simmons; Kevin J. Anderson; Jon Courtenay Grimwood; James Sallis; Brian Aldiss profile, Michael Moorcock; Michael Dirda defends fantasy
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6.25
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Summer Reading: Gaiman, Ballard, Carroll, Willis, Tolkien; E.T.'s It list; reviews of Ford, Stewart, Wilson, Le Guin, Levinson, McArthur, Colfer
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5.28
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GQ and A&F Quarterly; Connie Willis; Tolkien scholarship; Karen Joy Fowler; Shaun Tan; Eoin Colfer; Jonathan Carroll; Andrew Crumey
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4.30
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Butler, Schroeder, Willis; Philip K. Dick, FBI informant; Lemony Snicket; Brian Aldiss; Louise Erdrich; Shulevitz on Shippey and Tolkien; Gibson on Japan; Hand on Quinn; reviews of Dreamcatcher
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3.26
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King's Dreamcatcher; Dirda on movies; PKD book and documentary; Orson Scott Card's Ornery American
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2.26
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Jonas on Wolfe; New Yorker on Powers; reviews of Dreamcatcher; Pullman non-controvery; Westfahl on 2001; Cheuse, Disch on Clarke
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1.23
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Le Guin profile; reviews of Caleb Carr, Russo, Baker; interviews with Martin, Delany
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E-Publications | Electronic SFFH
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12.20
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What's new at periodical webzines; new links
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11.15
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What's new at Ansible, Electric Story, The Eternal Night, Fantastic Metropolis, Fantastica Daily, Made in Canada, RevolutionSF, Sci Fiction, SF Weekly, SF Site, Strange Horizons, Tangent Online
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10.19
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New E-pubs
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8.19
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Infinite Matrix, RevolutionSF debut; what's new in E-zines, E-books, and E-poems; New links
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7.20
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What's New at SF Site, SF Weekly, Sci Fiction; new e-zine Future Orbits
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6.30
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The Spook debuts; online news, interviews, book reviews, short fiction reviews, fiction; new links
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5.19
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Fiction, nonfiction; Poppy Z. Brite contest
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2.23
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Frequency audio CDs; e-books; fiction on the web; nonfiction e-zines
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Media Refractions | SF in NonTextual Media
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12.21
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Golden Globe nominations; Roger Ebert demurs on LOTR • The Lord of the Rings among best of 2001; Challenges of filming LOTR; Miserable geniuses • Positive buzz for The Lord of the Rings; A.I. among National Board of Review's Best of 2001
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11.30
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Harry Potter and the victory of the dweebs; the Harry-bin Laden connection; once and future Rings • Harry Potter and the books of childhood • Skiffy Flix: All About Harry • 2001 in 2001 • Movies that never were
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10.19
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How scientists advise TV and movies
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9.14
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Rules for horror films; Alan Moore profile; Harry and the Hobbits
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8.28
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Movie endings; Ghosts of Mars reviews; The Others and horror films; novelizations; wide-openings and A.I.
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7.31
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Critics react to Planet of the Apes, Jurassic Park III, Final Fantasy; Critical vs. public reaction to A.I.; SF vs. Media Sci-Fi
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6.30
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Ray Bradbury; Memento; Spielberg profile, real A.I.
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5.28
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Shrek, but not subversive; Steampunk and biopunk in Myst III; Spielberg on A.I.; Simon Magus review
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2.23
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Skiffy Flix: Monkeybone
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Feb
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Simon Magus, AI, Robert Enrico, Stanley Kramer, Hannibal
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Aether Vibrations | Science, fiction, and points in between
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12.21
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Read read read! • Political pundits and Tolkien; Internet and language; Hawking's readers • The no-style guide to success; Segway step backwards?
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11.14
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Books and ideas • The war effort
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10.31
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Halloween notes; 9/11 aftermath: What's worth reading; irony and postmodernism; us vs. them; public surveillance; urban myths; Wolfram's new science
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9.14
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Let's all read a book together--but probably not an e-book; Rushdie reactions; literary screeds
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8.28
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Stephen Jay Gould, Michael Shermer; Elmore Leonard's rules for writing; The answer to life, the universe, and everything is changing; what clone means; Zubrin to Mars; Kuhn's paradigms; literary pretentious reconsidered; the revival of R. Lionel Fanthorpe
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7.20
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Shrinking Book Reviews; BookScan; pretentious literary fiction; science and society
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6.30
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Mark Twain's story contest; big bookstore chains good!; Encarta Dictionary's advisories; science corner
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5.28
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How PowerPoint molds our thoughts; mystery force; new ancient civilization; why Beowulf's a hit; the appeal of Deepak; warp drive; free information; Harry Potter; Roget; reviews and flap copy; cookies
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Mar
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Claude Shannon dies; Salman Rushdie goes to the movies; LA Times' irrelevant Book Review; assaults on evolution
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Feb
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Science, faith, superstition; editing, reviewing, writing
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Comments on 9/11
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10.14
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By Arlan Andrews Sr., Sophie Masson, and others
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9.30
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Meditation by Candas Jane Dorsey
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9.30
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Letter from Mercedes Lackey
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Reviews by Nick Gevers
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12.05
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Top Ten contemporary SF and Fantasy Short Story Writers
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11.01
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Impact Parameter, by Geoffrey A. Landis
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10.04
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Strange Trades, by Paul Di Filippo
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9.10
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Sci Fiction, August and September 2001
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8.27
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Being Gardner Dozois, an interview by Michael Swanwick
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8.24
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Strange Days, a collection by Gardner Dozois
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Reviews by Claude Lalumière
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12.20
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Epic Fantasies by Cook, Hughart, Kilworth, Lee, Moorcock, Silverberg, and Wolfe
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11.02
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David Lynch's Mulholland Drive
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11.30
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Kidd on Comics, and Comics on Kids
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10.25
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Paperbacks, Pulps, and POD
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9.23
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Slipstream novels by Chuck Palahniuk and Glen David Gold
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8.14
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Comic Book Nation
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7.16
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The Complete War of the Worlds
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6.15
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Three BFI Film Classics
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Film Reviews by John Shirley
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12.21
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The Lord of the Rings
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11.19
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone with special consultant Julian Shirley)
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10.22
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From Hell
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8.20
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The Others
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8.05
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Planet of the Apes
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8.05
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Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
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7.16
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Final Fantasy
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7.11
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A.I.
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Other Reviews of A.I. Artificial Intelligence
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7.11
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Gary K. Wolfe: Spielbrick Does Aldiss
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7.01
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Gary Westfahl: Me, Robot: A Review of A.I.
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7.02
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Jeff Berkwits: A.I. Mines Science Fiction's Rich Robotic History
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Reviews by Philip Shropshire
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8.14
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Ted Rall's 2024 and more
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5.21
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A.I. Websites; William Messner-Loebs' Brave Old World
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3.14
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Books by Scott McCloud; Warren Ellis & Gary Erskine; Neal Adams
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Commentary by Jeff Berkwits
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8.20
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It's Up To The Fans To Make The Internet A True "Final Encyclopedia"
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5.14
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Will SF Survive the Dot-com Implosion?
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Short Fiction Reviews
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10.16
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Rich Horton reviews some treats from Analog
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8.16
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F. Brett Cox: F&SF, September 2001
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4.12
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Rich Horton: Two fine novellas from less-travelled places
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4.12
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Mark R. Kelly: A.I. as Brian Aldiss would have it?
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3.06
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Rich Horton: Highlights from the April F&SF
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Best of 2000
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1.14
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Mark R. Kelly: Best Short Fiction of 2000
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12.14
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Jonathan Strahan: Best Books of 2000
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Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading 2000
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Features
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12.16
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Parody: Decad, an anthology edited by Nick Gevers
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10.14
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Claude Lalumière's Guide to Montreal
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8.14
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Gardner Dozois's Ad-Hock Guide to Philadelphia Restaurants and Tourist Stuff
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Letters
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12.15
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Responses to Nick Gevers's Top Ten Short Story Writers list
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11.30
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Comments on Harry Potter, John Norman, censorship, slavery, and politics in SF
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11.01
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Teresa Nielsen Hayden, Gabe Chouinard, Pat Cadigan, James Gifford, officials Todd Dashoff and Kevin Standlee and others on James Gifford, John Norman, Worldcon programming, Harry Potter, and the Hugos
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10.14
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Open Letter from John Norman about programming at the Millennium Worldcon
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9.27
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Remembering Poul Anderson; Was Harry Potter's Hugo win a disgrace? Plus letters from David G. Hartwell, Mike Ashley, Neil Barron, Sean McMullen, Peter Coleborn, Alvin R. Mullen II
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8.14
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from Carter Moody, Malcolm Edwards, Frances Hickey, David Swanger
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7.31
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Bob Garcia, Paul Levinson and others on A.I.; Andy Duncan on SF in literary year's best anthologies; Michael Armstrong; Robin P. Hankin
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6.27
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Amazon's price changes; what's new in paperback; "Canadian" vs. "American"; Pinnacle's horror line; SF and the Internet; heart specialist Dr. Harlan Ellison; Winston SF classics; Mt. Lookitthat
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5.17
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SF and the Internet; help ID an old SF novel
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4.26
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About the International Hugo ballot, Edward Whittemore, SF bestsellers
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3.06
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About Kenneth C. Flint, cover artists, and all-time bestsellers
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2.12
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from Malcolm Edwards, Dennis Lein
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2001 Locus Poll & Survey -- Selected Results
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4.25
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Which 5 deceased writers will still be read 50 years from now?
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4.25
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Reader comments
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April 1st Features
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4.01
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SFWA launches Ellison Award
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4.01
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Amazing to relaunch as breakfast cereal
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4.01
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Michael Swanwick reviews the new William Gibson
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4.01
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New directions for Bob Dylan
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4.01
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Paul Di Filippo looks at forthcoming books
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