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Blinks: Dirda on Sheckley, USA Today on Richelle Mead, Nick Harkaway, Kiwamata Chiaki, VanderMeer on Bacigalupi, Garth Nix

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» Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews “A master of satirical science fiction” — Robert Sheckley’s Store of the Worlds, edited by Alex Abramovich and Jonathan Lethem

» USA Today interviews Richelle Mead

» Guardian: Nick Harkaway on how The book industry has got to get online publishing right

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» Barnes & Noble: Jeff VanderMeer reviews Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Drowned Cities

» Publishers Weekly interviews Garth Nix

» Gregory Benford on PKD in OC

» MIT News on Science Fiction Society’s massive library is out of this world

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