Blinks: Literary dystopias, Dirda on Vonnegut, reading Dune, WFC photos and readings, reviews

November 15, 2012August 17, 2017 admin

» LA Review of Books: Lee Konstantinou on Anthony Burgess; re-posted at Salon as Why do Literaray Novelists Love Dystopias aka “When sci-fi went mainstream”

» Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews Kurt Vonnegut’s letters

» NPR: Leigh Bardugo recalls Reading ‘Dune,’ My Junior-High Survival Guide

» Ellen Datlow’s photos from World Fantasy Con

» Scott Edelman also has WFC photos plus videos of readings by F. Brett Cox, Elizabeth Hand, and Robert Shearman

» One-time Locus reviewer Preston Grassmann has a story in Nature

» Morning Star: Matt Coward reviews David Brin, Graham Joyce, Eric Brown

Films

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Catherynne M. Valente: Weird Hybrids

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Catherynne Morgan Valente was born in Seattle WA, and grew up moving between her parents in Seattle and Sacramento CA. She attended high school in Davis CA, graduating at age 15 and attending UC San Diego, where she took a degree in Classical studies. She attended grad school at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, but quit to move overseas. She married in 2002, and lived near Yokohama Japan, where her

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