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12.29 - 01.04
Author Events
William P. Burch: Arlington
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author -
host)
Conventions:
ShadowCon VIII Memphis
Forthcoming Books:
January - September
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Sat 12.27 —
• Gabe Chouinard launches s1ngularity::criticism
• NY Times: 2003's Most Overrated and Underrated Ideas
Thu 12.25 —
• Guardian: Why J.G. Ballard turned down a royal honor
• LA Times: Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist
• LA Times: 36 attempts to reach Mars
• Pans for Paycheck from
— Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
— Elvis Mitchell, NY Times
— Manohla Dargis, LA Times
Tue 12.23 —
• The Hartford Courant: article on the book industry's output: 150,000 titles/year
• Telegraph: profile of Christopher Paolini
Mon 12.22 —
• NY Times: theater review of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
• LA Times: art review of nano exhibit at LA Country Museum of Art • LACMALab
• LA Times: Paul Park Op-Ed Jesus Rules in the Sequel
• NY Times Book Review: short reviews of Philip Pullman and Cornelia Funke
• Washington Post: Douglas E. Winter reviews Peter Straub
Sun 12.21 —
• NY Times: Caryn James complains that The Return of the King isn't a chick flick
• Also, article about a fan's Firefly DVD
• December Lost Pages: Ray Vukcevich, Richard Calder, Bruce Holland Rogers, et al
• NPR: The Hollywood Afterlife of Philip K. Dick; Tamora Pierce interview (click on audio links)
• Green Man Review: Jane Yolen's The Winter Queen Speaks
• Birmingham News: article about the new Argosy Magazine
Fri 12.19 —
• Village Voice: Joseph McElroy reviews Le Guin and Gorodischer
• Reviews in Rain Taxi: VanderMeer & Roberts' Disease Guide; Cory Doctorow's collection; Colin Wilson's YA series
• From the New York Times archives:
— 1954: W.H. Auden
reviews The Fellowship of the Ring
— 1955: Donald Barr
reviews The Two Towers
— 1956: W.H. Auden
reviews The Return of the King
Thu 12.18 —
• The New Yorker, Alex Ross: Wagner vs. Tolkien
• LA Times: Khan collaborator ("Space Seed") Madlyn Rhue dies
Wed 12.17 —
• Wall Street Journal: Orson Scott Card's
The Campaign of Hate and Fear
• Guardian: Zoe Williams'
Reading immaterial, wondering about the popularity of children's books
• More on The Return of the King:
— Washington Post: Michael Dirda on
what inspired Tolkien
— Roger Ebert
quibbles; *** 1/2
— Salon: Andrew O'Hehir's review
Tue 12.16 —
• Raves for The Return of the King from
— David Edelstein, Slate
— Kenneth Turan, LA Times
— Elvis Mitchell, NY Times
— Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
— Paul Clinton, CNN
— Named Best Picture by NY Film Critics
• Time: review of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II
Sun 12.14 —
• Washington Post: Paul Di Filippo reviews Clement, Watson, King, Hand; Elizabeth Ward reviews Philip Reeve
• LA Times: article on Tolkien's great-grandson; profile of Philip Pullman
• Ellen Datlow's World Fantasy Con photos
• Guardian: Jonathan Lethem profile
• CBC News: article on Heinlein's new long-lost novel
• Canadian bookseller Chapters & Indigo's Best of 2003 SF list led by Robert J. Sawyer; fantasy list by Stephen King
• SF Chronicle: Best Books of 2003
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| 12.26 |
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Naked man stuck in chimney of Uncle Hugo's Bookstore on Christmas morning — CNN
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| 12.14 |
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The Lord of the Rings wins the the BBC Big Read poll — BBC
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New York Times names Notable Books 2003 including SF titles by Morgan, Wilson, Le Guin, Baxter, Hearn, Wright, and Baruth, with Lethem among top 9 Editors' Choice
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Stefan Wul dies
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| 12.04 |
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2003 UPC SF Competition won by Catalan author Jordi Font-Agustí; ceremonies included a speech by GoH Orson Scott Card
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| 11.30 |
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Marguerite Bradbury, Ray Bradbury's wife, died November 25 — Ray Bradbury Discussion Board
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| 11.29 |
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Albert Nozaki, War of the Worlds art director, dies —
LA Times
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| 11.26 |
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2004 Odyssey Writing Workshop open for applications
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China Miéville, Mark Chadbourn, Ramsey Campbell, others win British Fantasy Awards
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| 11.21 |
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Amazon.com's Best of 2003 lists include titles by Simmons, Jordan, Niffenegger, Lethem, many others; Editors' Picks: SF/F; Customers' Favorites: SF/F
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| 11.20 |
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Stephen King given honorary award at last night's National Book Awards; Time's Lev Grossman approves; details of King's speech at MobyLives
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| 11.20 |
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Southeastern Science Fiction Achievement Awards given to Robert R. McCammon, Andy Duncan, L. Sprague de Camp
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| 11.20 |
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2004 Long List for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award includes books by Carol Emshwiller, Stephen Baxter, Zoran Zivkovic
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| 11.20 |
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SF writer and critic Mark Siegel dies — SFWA News
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| 11.20 |
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Star Trek TOS writer Margaret Armen dies — LA Times
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2003 News Archive | Below:
#Recent Awards •
#Necrology
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| 12.29 |
Bestsellers Robert Jordan, Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien
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| 12.20 |
Classic Reprints by Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Richard Matheson, Andre Norton, Jack Vance, Vernor Vinge, and others
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| 12.20 |
New in Paperback Greg Egan, Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Paul McAuley, Jeff VanderMeer, and others
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| 12.11 |
New Books
Robert A. Heinlein's earliest novel For Us, the Living, plus books by Stephen Baxter, Mark Budz, Arthur C. Clarke & C.S. Lewis, Paul Di Filippo, Nalo Hopkinson, Rick Klaw, Michael Marshall Smith, and others
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| 12.05 |
2003 Books Directory updated with latest links to descriptions, online reviews, and bestseller charts
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| 12.05 |
2002 Books Directory updated with latest links to online reviews and 2003 awards results
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| 11.29 |
New Books
Novels, collections, and nonfiction by Kage Baker, Marleen Barr, Terry Bisson, Peter Carey, Avram Davidson, Elizabeth Hand, Lucius Shepard, Michael Swanwick, and others
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| 11.22 |
Magazines
Debut issues of Argosy, Jupiter, and Neo-Opsis, plus new issues of Albedo One, Analog, Andromeda Spaceways, Asimov's, Black Gate, Bulletin of the SFWA, Interzone, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, F&SF, NFG, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Say..., Science Fiction Studies, The Third Alternative, True Review, and Weird Tales
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| 12.18 |
Letters From Per Jacobsen, Barry N. Malzberg, Al Sarrantonio
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| 12.04 |
David Herter looks at "Six Operas that Came Close"
Some good and even brilliant SF-and-Fantasy-tinged operas did get made in the 20th century, somewhat off the radar.
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| 11.18 |
Gary Westfahl reviews Looney Tunes: Back in Action
...a film that is both saturated with the tropes and imagery of science fiction and fundamentally hostile to scientific progress and all its effects. In this respect, of course, it is precisely faithful to the spirit of the 1950s science fiction films that it so respectfully references.
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| 11.12 |
Letters Story queries
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| 11.07 |
Cynthia Ward reviews an erotic SF collection by M. Christian
The stories in his new collection, The Bachelor Machine, pass the litmus tests of both the SF and erotica genres. Take out the tech and there's no story; take out the sex and there's no story.
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| 10.24 |
Claude Lalumière reviews Little Lit 3 and The Sandman: Endless Nights
It Was a Dark and Silly Night... is admirably enchanting and fun. The concept this time around is to fashion a story around the title...
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Lawrence Person reviews Jack Vance's The Dragon Masters and The Last Castle
Like Mark Twain, Jack Vance's work richly rewards rereading every decade or so. The swift action is still there, but what most impresses is the cleverness of the setup, the way in which Vance has crafted ever-widening circles of mirror-imaged antagonists, like a yin-yang symbol which turns out to be the eye of larger yin-yang symbol, which, in turn, is the eye of a still larger one.
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2003 Reviews & Features Archive
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The Magazine Of The
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This is an excellent book. I loved reading it. And yet... I could just as accurately say that I found The X President laughably naīve and propagandist...
It's true that with many scenes what Jackson is offering is not quite Tolkien — but something merely Tolkienesque. That was inevitable. But we're not likely to feel Jackson has shorted us — he has sincerely tried to bring us The Lord of the Rings and he has succeeded with much of this imperfect but wonderful film.
