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October News Posts
October 2011 Posts:
Monday 31 October 2011
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Monitor
Chuck Palahniuk's Damned and Colson Whitehead's Zone One debut.
Sunday 30 October 2011
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Magazine
The November issue has interviews with Geoff Ryman and Andy Duncan, a new column by Cory Doctorow, reviews of new books by Ian McDonald, Vernor Vinge, Paula Brandon, Steven Erikson, Jim Butcher, and many others, plus all the latest SF and fantasy news.
Saturday 29 October 2011
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Reviews
Until the workings of Darwinian capitalism allow energetic, independent filmmakers to overcome a small-minded and decadent elite class, In Time represents the very best sort of science fiction film that one can expect to see in a neighborhood theatre.
Friday 28 October 2011
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Reviews
Reviews of stories in Ian Whates' Solaris Rising, MIT's Technology Review: Science Fiction, and from Tor.com and Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Thursday 27 October 2011
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Monitor
What's new from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, Dreams and Nightmares, Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed, Murky Depths, On Spec, Realms of Fantasy, SF Site, Star*Line, Strange Horizons, Three-lobed Burning Eye, and Tor.com
Wednesday 26 October 2011
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Reviews
From Locus Magazine's October 2011 issue
This is certainly one of the major collections of the year, and it makes you wish the second volume were here now.
Tuesday 25 October 2011
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Monitor
Released today: Haruki Murakami's 1Q84, and titles by Arthur, Broaddus, Cast, Chan, de Bodard, del Toro & Hogan, Ford, Harrison, Jordan, Kent, Lachlan, Meding, Painter, Pelegrimas, Pierce, Rutkoski, Saintcrow, Shepherd, Whates, and Williams
Monday 24 October 2011
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Monitor
Terry Pratchett's Snuff ranks #3 on three US lists; Vernor Vinge's The Children of the Sky also debuts.
Sunday 23 October 2011
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Monitor
Notable new titles in recent weeks include Stephen King's Mile 81, several "Infinity Plus Singles" by Iain Rowan and others, a first batch of French translations from Black Coat Press, and titles by Anderson, Grant, Grimsley, and Wells
Saturday 22 October 2011
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Monitor
The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Six: Multiples, plus new editions of work by Brust, Cook, Dick, Gaiman, Heinlein, Monette, and Swanwick
Friday 21 October 2011
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Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's October Issue interview.
Writing a book and reading a book provide the same places to explore things. If you have the ability and the opportunity to dissolve yourself in a story, as a reader or as a writer, then you're generally in a fairly safe position from which to view the awful aspects of the world.
Thursday 20 October 2011
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Monitor
Notable UK releases in recent weeks include Christopher Priest's The Islanders, Adam Roberts' By Light Alone, Neal Asher's The Departure, and titles by Baxter, Deas, Hamilton, and Wooding.
Wednesday 19 October 2011
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Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of F&SF, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed, Apex Magazine, and Three-lobed Burning Eye
Tuesday 18 October 2011
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Monitor
Released today: Colson Whitehead's Zone One, Chuck Palahniuk's Damned, Richard Kadrey's Aloha from Hell, and titles by Gilman and Habel; earlier, Beth Bernobich's Fox & Phoenix, others by Campbell & Prepolec, Golden, Hamilton, Haynes, Lindqvist, Murray, Oakley, and Sagara
Monday 17 October 2011
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Monitor
Debuts this week are R.A. Salvatore's Neverwinter, Mercedes Lackey's Changes, Taylor Anderson's Firestorm, and the paperback of Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson's Towers of Midnight
Sunday 16 October 2011
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Reviews
The only logic underlying the actions of this latest incarnation of Campbell's nightmare might be some arcane doctrine of successful commercial filmmaking, secretly passed on from veterans to neophytes, stipulating that one must introduce some new act of colorful violence on every fifteenth page.
Saturday 15 October 2011
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Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, The Bulletin of the SFFWA, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Friday 14 October 2011
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Reviews
From the October 2011 issue of Locus Magazine
Disch was a consummately capable writer, attentive to character and style as well as to his place in the wider world of literature. Yet he was pretty consistently underappreciated and mistrusted by the SF field... Why?
Ian McDonald's The Dervish House, Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker, Greg Bear's Hull Zero Three, Lois McMaster Bujold's Cryoburn, Terry Pratchett's I Shall Wear Midnight, and other titles by Anthony, Bova, Card, Dietz, Hamilton, Jordan & Sanderson, and Lackey
Wednesday 12 October 2011
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Reviews
From Locus Magazine's October 2011 issue
While not officially YA, Snuff revels in jokes about snot, poo, and pee to an extent that should delight most boys, exasperate the more finicky sort of girls, and dismay some grannies (if their last name's not Weatherwax).
Tuesday 11 October 2011
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Monitor
Released today: Vernor Vinge's The Children of the Sky, Terry Pratchett's Snuff, Richard K. Morgan's The Cold Commands, Margaret Atwood's In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant's Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories, and titles by Alten, Asaro, Barth, Bell, Dashner, Kirkman & Bonansinga, and Nassise
Monday 10 October 2011
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Monitor
Neal Stephenson's Reamde slips; Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus maintains.
Lavie Tidhar's Osama, Caitlín R. Kiernan's Two Worlds and In Between, and titles by Czerneda & MacGregor, Lackey, Lassen, Matheson, Nelson, Ramsey, Shawl, and Vivelo
Saturday 8 October 2011
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Monitor
New issues of Apex Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Redstone SF, SF Site, and Strange Horizons
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's October Issue interview.
I wanted to bring my characters to the point where they can't avoid the hard decisions. They have to stop making excuses and act, they have to try to do the right thing finally – protagonists must protag; they cannot just sit there!
Locus Magazine Bestsellers are led by George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons, four earlier GRRM titles in paperback and one in trade paperback, Timothy Zahn's Star Wars: Choices of One, and R.A. Salvatore's Gauntlgrym
Wednesday 5 October 2011
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Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Asimov's, Analog, Subterranean, Interzone, Clarkesworld, Redstone, and GigaNotoSaurus
Released today: Martin & Dozois' Down These Strange Streets and novels by Anderson, Brandon, Chane, Dempsey, Durham, Geillor, Hendee, Hurley, Moriarty, Petrucha, Resnick, Saramago, Turner, and Weber; and in the past week: Cory Doctorow's Context, Thomas Mullen's The Revisionists, and a graphic novel by Orson Scott Card
Monday 3 October 2011
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Monitor
Neal Stephenson's Reamde and Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus are both #1.
Sunday 2 October 2011
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Magazine
October New and Notable books include titles by Brennan, Czerneda & MacGregory, Dann & Gevers, Datlow, Donaldson, Eller, Guran, Lawrence, Lockhart, Mamatas, Pratt, Steele, Wade, and Wrede.
Saturday 1 October 2011
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Magazine
The October issue has coverage of Renovation with complete Hugo Awards results, interviews with Margo Lanagan and Beth Bernobich, and reviews of new books by Christopher Priest, Terry Pratchett, Neal Asher, Robert McCammon, and many others, plus Graham Sleight's "Yesterday's Tomorrows" column on Thomas M. Disch and Amy Goldschlager's audiobook reviews.
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