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Blinks: Ben H. Winters; Slaughterhouse-Five; Guardian reviews; free anthology; Scott Edelman

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» NY Times Book Review: Ben H. Winters asks What Do the Make-Believe Bureaucracies of Sci-Fi Novels Say About Us?

» NY Times: The Moral Clarity of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ at 50 by Kevin Powers

» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Ann Leckie, Tade Thompson, Helen Marshall, Stephen Palmer, Temi Oh

» The Verge: Arizona State University released a free sci-fi anthology about the future of solar power

» Scott Edelman dines with Colin Coyle

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Betsy Mitchell has been a New York science fiction/fantasy editor for more than 30 years, including stints at Baen, Warner, Bantam, and ten years as VP/editor-in-chief of Del Rey. She received the World Fantasy Award for co-editing the anthology Full Spectrum 4, and has published William Gibson, Octavia Butler, Terry Brooks, Peter F. Hamilton, and Naomi Novik, among other authors too numerous to count. She currently runs her own business,

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