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Blinks: Classroom-friendly The Martian; SF in Bangladesh; SF in China

February 27, 2017August 17, 2017 admin

» NY Times: Andy Weir’s Best Seller ‘The Martian’ Gets a Classroom-Friendly Makeover, i.e., an authorized classroom edition with the dirty words toned down

» Bangladesh Daily Star: Science fiction pulls in young readers at the Ekushey book fair

» New Scientist: Lavie Tidhar, In China, this is science fiction’s golden age

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Blinks: Hartwell; Hand on Anders; Optimistic SF; Kij Johnson; Finnish authors; Tricia Sullivan

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Blinks: Ansible; Salon on social politics

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Blinks: Ansible; Dirda and Gaiman on Pratchett; Wolfe on Hugos; King, Le Guin, Datlow’s Sasquan pics; events

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Cory Doctorow: Free Markets
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Cory Doctorow: Free Markets

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The Colour of 2020 by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
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The Colour of 2020 by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

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The Casual Embrace by Paul Kincaid
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The Casual Embrace by Paul Kincaid

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2020 in Review: Fragments from a Fragmentary Reading List by John Langan
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2020 in Review: Fragments from a Fragmentary Reading List by John Langan

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My Whole Existence Is Flawed, You Get Me Closer to God: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss <b><i>Soul</i></b>
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My Whole Existence Is Flawed, You Get Me Closer to God: Josh Pearce and Arley Sorg Discuss Soul

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Disney/Pixar returns to the afterlife in Soul, the story of middle school teacher and jazz musician Joe Gardner (voiced by Jaime Foxx) who winds up in a coma after his body and spirit are separated in an accident. While trying to avoid going into the Great Beyond, Spirit-Joe escapes into the Great Before, where newly created souls are prepared for corporeal existence. There he teams up with 22 (Tina Fey),

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Blinks: Jonathan Lethem in The New Yorker, with a tribute to Robert A. Heinlein; NPR’s Fran Wilde reviews S.B. Divya; Wired’s Jason Kehe on R.A. Lafferty

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Blinks: Kazuo Ishiguro; reviews of his new novel; new laws or robotics; Shippey reviews Weber & Kenney

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Blinks: Lisa Tuttle at Guardian; Bill McKibben cites KSR; Greg Bear’s life story

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Blinks: Guardian Reviews; the Essential Octavia Butler; Off the Radar F&SF

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SF in SF with Finch and Levine
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SF in SF with Finch and Levine

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SF in SF hosted Sheila Finch and David D. Levine at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco on September 16, 2018. Coordinated by Rina Weisman and moder­ated by Terry Bisson, the event featured readings and signings by both guests, a Q&A session, a full bar, and ample time to mingle. Books were available for purchase thanks to Borderlands Books; Tachyon Pub­lications sponsored the event. For more informa­tion on SF

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Brian Slattery: Pushing the Form
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Brian Slattery: Pushing the Form

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