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

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» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews CK McDonnnell, Derek B Miller, HM Long, Louise Carey, and Ernest Cline

» NYT: The Essential Octavia Butler

» WaPo: Let’s talk about fantasy and science fiction books that have fallen off the radar, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Lavie Tidhar

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Blinks: Microsoft and Atlantic Council free ebook anthologies; SFWA’s reading list; WFC readings and photos; more

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Blinks: Butler; KSR; Pullman; Dirda; reviews of Flynn, Chang, Martine; Edelman dines

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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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SF in a Plague Year by Rich Horton
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SF in a Plague Year by Rich Horton

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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: 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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Blinks: Bloom on Le Guin; LARB on Dune; WaPo’s Best SF/F/H Books of 2020

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Italcon 39: Before, During, and After: A Personal Perspective by Michael Bishop

August 30, 2013 admin 6

An unexpected invitation On February 12 of this year, Armando Corridore, owner and publisher of the firm Elara Libri in Bologna, Italy, e-mailed me an invitation to attend Italcon 39 – “the annual Italian congress of fantastic literature” – as its sole American literary guest. Armando explained that the convention would be held in Bellaria, “a quiet seaside town on the Adriatic coast,” from May 23 – May 26. It would run

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Doorbell! Speculative Poetry Tucked into a Basket on Speculative Fiction's Front Porch

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