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How Should SF Magazines Fight Off Extinction? [Bookvortex]
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 3 hours ago
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Here's our five step guide on potential ways to save this venerable tradition. It makes sense that we'd end up talking about sci-fi magazines during Bookvortex week; after all, sci-fi pulps and magazines are responsible for publishing the first published...
Tags: sf magazines, science fiction, fi magazines, San Francisco, Isaac Asimov, If, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Magazines, Speculative fiction, Science fiction magazine
The Shiniest Stories On io9 Last Week [Best Of The Week]
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Don't worry we've got a round up of this weeks bookish posts including the the history of scifi classics, told by their covers, Cormac McCarthy's thoughts on The Road and reading recommendations. If You Like These Recent Movies, Here Are Books You'll...
Tags: Cormac McCarthy, short fiction, San Francisco, MacCarthy, Science fiction, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Road, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest
There's No Intelligent Life on Planet 51 [Movie Review]
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Planet 51 has an intriguing premise, promising advance clips, and acid-piddling dog straight out of Alien . But none of that can save a rambling movie that's never quite sure where it's going. Planet 51 's tragedy is that it could have been a decent movie.
Tags: science fiction, San Francisco, Alien, Joke, The Universe, Entertainment Culture
Independent Publishers Who Are Reinventing The Future [Indy Giants]
London :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility ChiZine started out as a webzine called Chiaroscuro , publishing horror, dark fiction and weird-ass shit, a decade ago. They started putting out books in spring 2008, and already they're up to 12 titles a year. And judging from recent offerings, they...
Tags: small press, science fictional, William Shatner, small beer, London, Ekaterina Sedia, Science fiction, Sean Wallace, Zombie, Subterranean Press, Year of birth missing, Apex Digest, Entertainment Culture
The Best Places To Find Your Next Free Book Online [Afternoon Reading]
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility But as long as you have an internet connection, these resources will help you get free books and stories online. Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg is the premiere spot for finding free books online , and they've arranged their science fiction collection...
Tags: science fiction, free books, free fiction, San Francisco, Tor Books, Strange Horizons, Project Gutenberg, John Scalzi, Old Man's War, Literary genres, Entertainment Culture
Darwin at the movies: A festival of apes, aliens and troglodytes
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility Darwin, Evolution and the Movies is a one-off festival of film and live comedy to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species on 24 November 1859. Over this weekend the festival is running at three separate...
Tags: Ronald Grant Archive Darwin, Earth, science fiction, Ripley, United Kingdom, London
Fantasy book series lure teens
Dublin :: Ireland | 2 days ago
Credibility The answer, from area librarians, is unanimous. Anything with vampires, said Hutchinson High School librarian Cheri Horyna. Especially this week, with the movie premiere of New Moon¸ which was adapted from the second of Stephenie Meyer s four books in...
Tags: Harry Potter, New Moon, twilight series, Amy Brownlee, Cheri Horyna, graphic novels, Stephenie Meyer, science fiction, J. K. Rowling, Terry Christner, Ireland, Dublin, Horror novels, Teen films, Twilight, Romance novels, Fantasy novels, Entertainment Culture
20 Science Fiction Novels We Can't Wait To Read in 2010 [Booklists]
Edinburgh :: United Kingdom | 3 days ago
Credibility You've got a list of books to read today, but what will you be yearning to read next year? We've picked out 20 scifi and contemporary fantasy books coming out next year that have us filled with excitement. Many publishers haven't firmed up their winter...
Tags: Zendegi, Nasim, Scarlett Thomas, science fiction, Adam Roberts, OMNI, virtual world, Greg Egan, Roland Barthes, Connie Willis, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, Death of the Author, Ellen Datlow, The Trigon Disunity, Cory Doctorow, Transhumanists, Ken MacLeod
Business leaders share their success stories
Pompano Beach :: FL :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility Laurie Silvers, co-creator of the SciFi Channel, wasn't immediately sold on the idea of starting the network, thinking that science fiction fans were ``nutjobs.'' That is, until she did a little research on the popularity of the genre. The Boca Raton...
Tags: science fiction, Pompano Beach, Entrepreneurship, Global Entrepreneurship Week
The Unexpected Art of Science Fiction Book Covers [Cover Art]
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility A single book can inspire a wide range of covers, and sometimes those covers can be works of art themselves. We look at some classic science fiction novels and the various covers they've worn throughout the years. We've collected various book covers from...
Tags: science fiction, books cover, San Francisco, Edition, Minimalism, Entertainment Culture, Mass surveillance, Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell, Hospitality Recreation
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