the raven have fought together for years six men carving out a living as swords for hire in the war that have torn balaia apart loyal only to themselves and their code. but when they agree to escort a xesteskian mage on a secret mission they are pulled into a world of politics and ancients secrets. for the first time the raven cannot even trust their own strength and prowess for the first time ......
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michelle munro wrote at 356pm happy hello from cold halifax i was just wondering if you have any recommendations for green toys this holiday season i get mothering magazine and they just had their toy issue and i was wondering if elephant has some suggestion to cheers mmaaaa great question. i know of a company called plantoys.com and another one called realbab......
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... 157 pages source sfsite.com......
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the november 2008 edition of sf site is online with reviews of the farfuture space opera house of suns by alastair reynolds the modern fantasydemon hunting novel the outlaw demon wails by kim harrison and the robert e. howardinspired adventuers of corwyn by chad corrie which like conan looks at the hero at different points in his lifetime. its tv column babylon 5.1 loo......
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via media shift by simon owens november 17 2008 every year locus magazine the magazine of the science fiction fantasy field publishes a yearinreview of the genre. this summation always includes a rundown of the circulation of the remaining speculative fiction magazines sometimes referred to as the pulps because of the cheap wood pulp paper on which th......
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sfsite has just posted a highly complimentary review of john scalzis gathering of the best from the first ten years of his blog whatever. according to them your hate mail will be graded is for you if you are comfortable reading something that is likely to lampoon at least one of your deeply held opinions then this collection is for you. if you are the sort of pe......
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its over at sfsite and its positive . nice to see it getting some love the nonfiction stuff doesnt get reviewed as often as the fiction stuff does. i suppose thats only natural. subterranean press tells me theres still some copies of hate mail left remember its a signed limited edition we made about 1000 of them so you can stil......
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art geek are sexxy rounds up various lego renditions of alien . comics vectortuts shares 10 lessons from comic book illustration legends . film some people are saying that bluray has done itself in but techradar has named 10 movie releases that could save bluray . wired counts down the best fictional doomsday devices . literature free fiction listen to the trouble w......
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i am still a relatively new subscriber to fantasy science fiction especially considering that next year the magazine has been in print for sixty years although there is no way i could possibly catch up on all those fantastic stories that have been printed in those years i can enjoy the online reprints that they offer along with their newly printed issues. the only known jump acro......
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weve been talking about finncon quite a lot during this visit here at casa vandermeeria. the main reason for this is the sheer unadulterated joy and sense of proudness we feel for our national sfconvention. finncon has been going strong for over twenty years now quite a long run if one considers that finnish fandom was really born only during the 1970s and is looking ......
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...t hes working on a sequel to marsbound ill be there to read it. source sfsite.com......
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so i took the plunge and just got in and started quilting.a like the teddy quilts in the previous post i started meander quilting my handy quilting bible the quilters ultimate visual guide told me that this is like stipple quilting but farther apart from the centre outwards in columns. i created the quilt sandwich with the same basting spray that i u......
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i just picked up a copy of the september issue of fantasy science fiction and it has a great short story by laura kasischke which i think is her first in the speculative fiction vein she has published broadly in poetry and literary fiction. the story is told in the first person by an old man suffering from dementia and is disturbing compressed the way that good poetry is com......
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its my new word for linksharing posts. the category still remains linksharing. after some thought ive deactivated the stumble plugin and will at most put up one post per week with some selected tidbits ive stumbled across. words into hype tongue in cheek definitions of literary terms my personal favourite is experimental fiction women writing science fiction voices......
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i just wanted to post a quick note to let the writers who read this blog know that over at fsf weve added a new editorial type to the team lisa rogers. shes just started working with us but she has several years of editing experience. she went through some slush on wednesday so some of you will be seeing rejections from her. i really just wanted to point this out to let everyone know t......
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a tale woven from blade runner noir and lovecraft. i think its the rare author who doesnt like to genrebend. after all theres an entire subgenre called slipstream that is based on combining sf fantasy horror andor something else altogether. every writer i know of professional or not either has published or is hiding in their drawer something that crosses the b......
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