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11.04 Jerry Sohl
11.02 Charles Sheffield
9.21 Robert L. Forward
9.12 Lloyd Biggle Jr.
7.29 Ron Walotsky
7.10 Laurence M. Janifer
5.09 Bruce Pelz
4.29 Richard Cowper
4.26 George Alec Effinger
4.15 Damon Knight
4.13 Jon Gustafson
4.02 Henry Slesar
4.02 John R. Pierce
3.18 R.A. Lafferty
3.14 Cherry Wilder
1.14 Cele Goldsmith Lalli
1.01 Jack C. Haldeman II
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| 12.25 |
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Southeastern Science Fiction Achievement Awards winners
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Aurealis Awards nominations
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Call for submissions
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| 12.20 |
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Le Guin leads war protest
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| 12.07 |
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Southeastern Science Fiction Achievement Award nominations
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| 11.26 |
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Ursula K. Le Guin wins Endeavour Award
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Thomas E. Fuller dies
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Paula Guran dismissed from Horror Garage
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| 11.21 |
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Nancy Farmer wins National Book Award
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Bert Granet dies
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Clarke-Bradbury SF Competition announced
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| 11.20 |
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Roger MacBride Allen remembers Charles Sheffield
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| 11.11 |
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Jerry Sohl dies
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| 11.08 |
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Slow Glass Books closes
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Best-Books-of-2002 lists published
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Andre De Toth, Nathan Juran, John Meredyth Lucas die
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Rotsler Award given
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| 11.06 |
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Dangerous Visions bookstore to close
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James White Award winner announced
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Actor Jonathan Harris dies
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| 11.03 |
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Ursula K. Le Guin, S.P. Somtow, Albert E. Cowdrey, others win World Fantasy Awards
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| 11.02 |
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Charles Sheffield dies
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10.23
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SF writers petition against war; Avenue Victor Hugo Bookshop to close; Raymond T. McNally dies; Appreciation of Lloyd Biggle, Jr.; Awards; Announcements
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10.09
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Neil Gaiman wins lawsuit; SESFA awards deadline extended
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10.07
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Wynne Whiteford dies; Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire winners; plus news about Darren Nash, Ralph Vicinanza, and Paul Levinson, and more
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9.30
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Margaret Sweatman wins Sunburst Award; plus news about Michael Crichton, Ellen Datlow, DAW Books, John Kessel, the OED, Robert J. Sawyer, and Nancy Stouffer
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9.22
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Robert L. Forward dies; British Fantasy and Rhysling Awards winners
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9.13
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Lloyd Biggle, Jr., Marion K. "Doc" Smith die
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9.11
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Farscape fans react to cancellation; Recalling 9/11
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9.08
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Forry Ackerman's woes; Press coverage of ConJosé
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9.05
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More Worldcon News: Glasgow wins '05; Nominees and honorable mentions; Dramatic Presentation category split; Plus: J. Lee Thompson dies
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9.02
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Neil Gaiman, Vernor Vinge, Ted Chiang, Michael Swanwick, Ellen Datlow, The Lord of the Rings, Locus, Locus Online, others win Hugo Awards (9.03: added photos)
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9.01
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Chesley, Prometheus, Sidewise, Golden Duck, and Gaylactic Spectrum awards winners
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8.28
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Stanley R. Greenberg dies
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8.24
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Norman Jolley, Dave Van Arnam, Dean Riesner die; Charles Sheffield ailing
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8.19
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L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards winners
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8.13
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Aurora Awards winners
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8.09
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World Fantasy Awards nominations
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8.08
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British Fantasy Awards nominations; Phyllis White, Franco Lucentini die; William Gibson (not the writer) donates huge SF collection to university
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8.05
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Mythopoeic Awards winners
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8.02
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Chesley Awards nominees; Locus Online's "Best Website" survey results; Damon Knight Memorial Waterfight
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7.30
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Ron Walotsky dies
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7.25
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Kathleen M. Massie-Ferch, Robert Randolph Medcalf, Jr., Donald Franson, William L. Pierce die; David Gemmel wins Prix Tour Eiffel, plus Seiun, Sir Julius Vogel, and Prism results
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7.15
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Terry Pratchett wins Carnegie Medal; James White Award judges announced
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7.12
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Laurence M. Janifer dies; Spectrum Awards finalists; Harry Potter rip-off; more
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7.05
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Willis, Gaiman, Carey, Le Guin, Chiang, others win Locus Awards
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7.05
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Williamson, Wilson, Duncan win Campbell, Sturgeon Awards
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7.02
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Southeastern Science Fiction Achievement (SESFA) Awards announced; Photos from KGB
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6.27
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New McNamara Award to Paul Collins; Shaun Tan installs library mural
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6.26
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Campbell, Aurora, and Endeavour awards finalists; Kuo-Yu Liang leaves Ballantine; John Jarrold leaving Earthlight; Charles N. Brown celebrates 65th
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6.16
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Ditmar, Golden Duck, and Saturn awards winners; finalists for Sturgeon, Sunburst, and Chesley awards; and more
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6.11
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Neil Gaiman, Michael Oliveri, others win Bram Stoker Awards
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6.04
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Heinlein Award announced; Harlan Ellison's lawsuit next at court
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6.02
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John Murry [Richard Cowper] obits in NY, LA Times
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5.30
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Hall of Fame inductees; Sidewise and Golden Duck finalists; Chicago Fantastic Film Festival announcement
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5.24
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Letters from John Trimble, Greg Barrett of LASFS, on Forry Ackerman's condition
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5.20
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Mythopoeic Awards finalists announced; Photos from KGB Bar, and Mt. Rose
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5.19
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Gwyneth Jones wins Arthur C. Clarke Award
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5.15
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Appreciations of George Alec Effinger, by Harlan Ellison, Amy Stout, and members of his writing workshop
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5.10
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Bruce Pelz, Betsy Curtis, Fridrikh Gorenshtein die • Forrest J Ackerman ailing (update 12 May) • George Alec Effinger memorial reading planned • Lambda Literary awards winners, Deutscher Phantastik Preis nominations announced • Reports on Jack Williamson's 94th birthday party, a Judith Merril book launch, and a Lois McMaster Bujold Russian convention • gossip about Stephen King • articles on the Harry Potter effect, and book theft
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5.02
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Richard Cowper dies
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4.29
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Taxing SF; Andromeda Bookshop reopens; Analog and Asimov's Readers' Awards; Ursa Major Awards; Prism Awards finalists
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4.28
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George Alec Effinger dies
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4.28
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Nebula Awards Winners
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4.24
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Joan Harrison dies; Ditmar nominations; Funding the space program by taxing SF?; Possible Dayworld infringement?
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4.19
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Hugo Awards Nominations
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4.19
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International Horror Guild winners; Seiun nominees
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4.15
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Damon Knight dies
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4.14
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Jon Gustafson, Henry Slesar die
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4.12
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Hiromi Goto wins James Tiptree, Jr. Award
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4.05
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John R. Pierce, Joan Benford die; Jon Gustafson hospitalized
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4.03
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British SF awards; Prometheus finalists; Declare ruled ineligible for Nebula
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4.01
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Richard Paul Russo wins Philip K. Dick Award
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3.30
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Bram Stoker Awards final ballot; World Fantasy Awards judges; Bradbury gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame; New York Times Lafferty obit
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3.26
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Awards News: Jasper Fforde wins Crawford; Aurealis, Italia, Sapphire winners; Ellen Kushner wins Gracie Allen; Firecracker, Audie, and Saturn nominees • Plus: LA reads Bradbury; Glasgow unopposed in '05
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3.20
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R. A. Lafferty dies
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3.14
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| Cherry Wilder dies
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3.13
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| Isaac Asimov died of AIDS
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3.11
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| Williamson Lectureship; Karen Joy Fowler finalist for PEN/Faulkner Award; Mati Klarwein, Drew Staffanson die
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2.28
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| 2001 Nebula Awards final ballot
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| International Horror Guild finalists, Bram Stoker preliminary ballot released; Virginia Hamilton dies; Adv. in Crime & Space loses lease
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| British SF Awards shortlist announced; Lloyd Arthur Eshbach alive and well; Cathleen Jordan dies; Andromeda Bookshop to close; Stephen King appears tonight at Frank Mullen benefit; Slipstream 3 Conference
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| Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist announced
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| Philip Pullman wins Whitbread Prize
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| Preliminary Nebula Ballot released
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| Cele Goldsmith Lalli dies
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| Philip K. Dick Awards final ballot
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| Jack C. Haldeman II dies; Harry Potter news
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| Best SFFH Books of 2001 Tally
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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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10.21
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John Shirley reviews The Ring
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10.15
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Claude Lalumière reviews new TV series Birds of Prey
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10.15
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Jeff VanderMeer reviews "the best Gothic fantasy of the new century"
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9.25
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John Shirley reviews new TV premieres: Firefly and John Doe
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9.23
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John Shirley reviews Miyazaki's Spirited Away
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9.23
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Claude Lalumière reviews 'Slipstream' novels by Mark Chadbourn and Lucius Shepard
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9.16
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Rich Horton reviews Australian SF
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9.09
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Paula Guran: "Tribal Stand"
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8.27
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John Shirley reviews Simone
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8.27
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Claude Lalumière reviews collections by William Sanders, Charles Stross, David L. Hayles, Brian Evenson, Bentley Little, and Ivan Brunetti
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8.22
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Nick Gevers reviews chapbooks by Alex Irvine, Gene Wolfe & Neil Gaiman, and Geoff Ryman
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8.12
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Rich Horton reviews three small press anthologies
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8.12
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F. Brett Cox reviews Mars Probes
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8.03
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Claude Lalumière reviews Signs
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7.28
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Lawrence Person reviews Eight Legged Freaks
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7.19
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Claude Lalumière reads films
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7.13
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John Shirley reviews Reign of Fire
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7.08
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John Shirley reviews Men In Black II
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7.05
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Nick Gevers reviews Jeffrey Ford's new collection
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6.28
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Claude Lalumière recalls Past Masters: Lafferty, Haggard, Finney, and pre-1900 SF
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6.24
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Gary Westfahl reviews Minority Report
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6.24
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John Shirley reviews Minority Report
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6.24
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Rich Horton reviews recent magazine serials by Silverberg, Sawyer, and Stross
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5.21
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| Claude Lalumière explores The Wonder of Anatomy
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5.10
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Nick Gevers reviews Ian Watson's The Great Escape
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5.05
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| Claude Lalumière reviews Spider-Man
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4.17
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| Nick Gevers reviews George Zebrowski's Swift Thoughts
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4.17
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| Philip Shropshire reviews comics by Alan Moore, Ian Edginton, and Jim Ottaviani
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4.12
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| Rich Horton reviews Leviathan Three
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4.12
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| Claude Lalumière reviews Biblical satires by Christopher Moore and Kyle Baker, and lists the classics
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3.15
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| Claude Lalumière reviews Jeff VanderMeer, with annotations
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3.11
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| Gary Westfahl reviews The Time Machine
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3.11
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| John Shirley reviews The Time Machine
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2.20
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| John Shirley reviews Rintaro's Metropolis
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2.19
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| Claude Lalumière reviews novellas by Ken MacLeod and Paul Di Filippo
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2.09
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| John Shirley on The Mothman Prophecies
| 2.09
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| Nick Gevers admires Richard Lupoff's Claremont Tales II
| 2.09
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| Rich Horton reveals Zoran Zivkovic
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| F. Brett Cox on Redshift
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| Nick Gevers on Avram Davidson's Nineteenth Century
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| Claude Lalumière on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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| Philip Shropshire on graphic novels by David Brin, J.M. DeMatteis, and Frank Miller
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| John Shirley reviews The Devil's Backbone
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| Claude Lalumière on 2001's best books
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| Nick Gevers on 2001's best short fiction
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Locus Magazine's Recommended Reading 2001
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Attack of the Clones
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6.17
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| Kathryn Cramer watches the film with 4-year-old Peter
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5.31
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| John Shirley assesses the Digital Format
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5.22
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| John Shirley reviews the film
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5.21
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| Paul Levinson lists Ten Reasons to Like the Clones
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Commentary
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8.22
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Sophie Masson on Shakespeare: "That Merry Wanderer of the Night" (Or, How I learnt to stop worrying and enjoy plundering the fantastic works of the Bard!)
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7.19
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Jeff VanderMeer at Readercon: browsing, buying, selling, reading, talking, and dreaming books
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5.15
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| 2002: The Year the Science Fiction Died, by Gary Westfahl
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5.05
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| Philip Shropshire explains "Why I Don't Support Harlan Ellison's KICK Internet Piracy Lawsuit"
(5.06 Harlan's Lawyer Responds)
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4.23
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| Gabe Chouinard on the failure of Epic Fantasy
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3.21
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| Adam Roberts on The Clarke Award, 2002: What kind of SF is represented by this year's shortlist?
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Field Inspections | SFFH reviews in general publications
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Dec
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Nov
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Entertainment Weekly's IT List; Reviews of China Miéville, Robert J. Sawyer, Jeffrey Ford, Rudy Rucker, Greg Egan, Philippa Pearce, Steve Aylett, and others • Summer reading; YA books; Jeffrey Ford interview
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May
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Reviews of Neil Gaiman, Shelley Jackson, Judith Merril, China Miéville, Rudy Rucker, Terry Pratchett, Philip K. Dick, and others • Douglas Adams reviews; Egan, Robinson, Crowley; Moby's Top 5s; PW starred reviews • CNN trashes David Weber • Douglas Adams's last book; Harry Potter delays, and fan fiction; reviews of Le Guin, Crowley, Brin
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Apr
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Jonas on Robinson, Tepper, Swanwick, Florman; Comics reviews; King plagiarism charge; Zettel profile; Andy Duncan trucker article • Ballard on Huxley; PW starred reviews • Lupoff review and interview; KSR on NPR; Reviews of King, Fforde, Crowley; Straub on the perfect horror novel; Nick Mamatas on sci-fi fandom • Washington Post Book World special SF issue •
Stephen King in Time; reviews of Kim Stanley Robinson, Howard Norman • Reviews of Jasper Fforde, John Crowley, Stephen King, Carter Scholz
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Jan
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| Reviews and comments on Jasper Fforde, Philip Pullman, Craig Nova, and Ray Bradbury; reviews of Peter Watts, Greg Bear, and others
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| Media Refractions | SF in NonTextual Media
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Dec
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| Reactions to Solaris and Star Trek: Nemesis
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Nov
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Oct
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| Minority Report buzz; Clones camp; Spider-Man's celibacy
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| Lawrence Kasden and others on George Lucas and Attack of the Clones
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| TV Guide's top 50 shows of all time; Filming PKD; 20 years since Blade Runner; Miéville on LotR
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Star Wars' SF roots; The Outer Limits; 2001 and 2010; LotR and computer culture
• Star Trek regresses; Insignificance of the Saturn Awards; Andy Duncan on Alfonso Cuaron's latest project; Paul Levinson's media ventures; Invisible Man cancellation protest; LotR vs. SW
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| E-Publications | Electronic SFFH
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May
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What's new at The Alien Online, AntipodeanSF, Emerald City, Fantastic Metropolis, RevolutionSF, Science Fiction Weekly, and Strange Horizons •
The Spook celebrates photography; Elysian Fields covers all the fields of fantasy; plus what's new at Electric Story, The Infinite Matrix, RevolutionSF, Sci Fiction, SF Weekly, SFRevu, and Strange Horizons
SF Site covers news; Tangent Online expands e-coverage; plus what's new at The Eternal Night, The Infinite Matrix, Made In Canada, RevolutionSF, Sci Fiction, SF Weekly, and Strange Horizons •
Black Gate fiction online; a DarkEcho blog; FictionWise offers free Hugo nominees; expanded message boards at TTA; plus what's new at Fantastica Daily, The Infinite Matrix, RevolutionSF, Sci Fiction, SF Weekly, and Strange Horizons
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Apr
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DarkEcho Horror relaunches; plus what's new at Ansible, Electric Story, Emerald City, Fantastic Metropolis, Quantum Muse, Sci Fiction, Science Fiction Weekly, scifidimensions, SF Crowsnest, SF Site, and Strange Horizons •
Latest posts at Ansible, Electric Story, Fantastic Metropolis, Fantastica Daily, Future Orbits, The Infinite Matrix, Made In Canada, RevolutionSF, Sci Fiction, SF Weekly, SF Site, The Spook, Strange Horizons, and Tangent Online
• New links
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Jan
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| What's new at Fantastic Metropolis, Fantastica Daily, Hellnotes, The Infinite Matrix, RevolutionSF, Sci Fiction, SF Site, Strange Horizons, and The Spook
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Aether Vibrations | Science, fiction, and points in between
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Nov
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More poetry writers than readers • Antigravity; exploring the Moon; Wells; Poe
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Oct
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Aug
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Jun
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Audiobooks bring tears to an unsentimental reader; Wolfram's impact; readers' dreams; blog wars; science is hard
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May
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Water on Mars; cloning; more and more prizes; reading • A new kind of science; publishing, fiction, reading, and blogging
• Everyone's doing the 'blog; the coming Bookscan; bookstore clerks; human ID chips and roboticized rats; science and religion
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Apr
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Fukuyama's Posthuman Future; Long Bets; TextArc • Oprah's book club; remembering authors' names; top 100 characters; views from space; Landis on starships
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Letters
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11.09
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More on Signs; Vampires; R.A. Lafferty; the Monkees
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9.25
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Responses to Paula Guran's essay
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8.30
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About The Grateful Dead, Gene Wolfe, and Signs
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7.23
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Minority Report debate: Paul Levinson, Sophie Masson, Eric M. Van, David Moles, Richard Chwedyk (on another topic), Gary A. Braunbeck, Adam Roberts, Ted White, Nick Mamatas, F. Brett Cox, John Shirley, and the VanderMeers
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6.27
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Reactions to Minority Report by Jeff & Ann VanderMeer; Spielberg and Lucas, Flash Gordon, publishing credits, Charles Eric Maine
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5.22
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Letters about Attack of the Clones, epic fantasy, Forry Ackerman, and Anatomy of Wonder
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5.06
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Harlan Ellison's Lawyer Responds to Philip Shropshire's commentary
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4.19
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Kevin Standlee, John C. Snider, Gabe Chouinard, Robert Nesbit, Damian Kilby, Catherine Asaro, John Savage, Chris Lawson; others
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3.30
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Damian Kilby, John C. Snider, Robert Brown, Gordon Van Gelder
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3.28
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Jeffrey Ford, Jeff VanderMeer, Lucius Cook, and Keith Ferrell on SF vs. the Mainstream; Alex Irvine, Allen Parmenter, Gregory Benford, Gabe Chouinard, Catherine Mintz, Therri Moore, Chris Lawson, Kim Owen Smith, and Bob Eggleton about R.A. Lafferty, the Clarke Award judges, The Time Machine and The Mothman Prophecies
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2.01
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| from Michael Swanwick and Carl Glover
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1.17
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| from Oscar Wilde, Craig Engler, Rob Tomshany, Rick Bowes, S.M. Stirling, and others
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Editorials
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6.06
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The Curse of CI Host
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5.23
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Weblogging
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1.28
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Best Websites
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| April 1st Features
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Letters Not about SF vs. Mainstream
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News
Nebula Awards Voting Cancelled
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Plagiarism Scandal engulfs Michael Swanwick
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Batman Books Announces Major Tolkien Venture
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Locus Online Awards announced
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