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Hey folks, good news! The Tangled Bank, an anthology of spec-fic centered around themes Darwinian, has launched. Edited by Chris Lynch, it’s an anthology that strives to fill a fairly shocking gap in science fiction — fiction about evolution. It’s amazing that, given that evolution may be the single greatest, life-changingest scientific discovery ever, there [...]
Yep. Playboy. In Braille. This photo comes from a series by Taryn Simon, who has for years now finagled her way into “secret sites” — and has taken pictures of things that no one is supposed to see. (In the case of this issue of Playboy, that’s literally true! Rimshot!) You can see the TED [...]
Hey folks, here are just a few shots from the reading I participated in on Thursday for the _Hit List_ anthology. I’m going to edit this post to add a few more shots: these are just of me, but some of the better pictures are the group shots featuring the other readers – Liz Martínez, Richie Narvaez, [...]
So the new Tor.com is out, and it is pretty snazzy. For those of you who haven’t been following, Tor has, for months now, been teasing the sci-fi community with freebie fiction and wallpaper giveaways, all building up to their new vision for a sci-fi/fantasy/horror/bizarro clearinghouse. You ask me, I think its plans for the [...]
Strange Horizons is far and away the best speculative fiction magazine on the web. They are a non-profit that proves a volunteer-driven enterprise can generate consistently professional results. And speaking of professional, they honor writers by paying them professional rates; they are an SWFA-recognized professional speculative fiction market. I am not privy to their budget, [...]
There’s a new book out my a pair of Harvard Professors that defends the thesis I have always believed: that video games are a part of the social fabric and have not created a generation of sociopaths. The book is called “Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can [...]
The Internet’s a big place, okay? Everybody misses some stuff on the Web that, once they see it, they have no idea how they’ve lived without it. If you haven’t yet, check out Escapist Magazine and you’ll see what I mean. In particular, I recommend the gaming reviews by Zero Punctuation. If you don’t wet [...]
I’ve been reading a lot of game sites lately as part of my continuing interest in them both as artistic artifacts and as educational tools. Today, on the very thoughtful site Play This Thing, I came across an interesting post: the idea that games, as they evolve, run the risk of becoming so complex that [...]
(Spoiler Alert — This review may spoil things for some readers who miss the point of sections one and two, which argue that The Road is not a fiction, but an epic poem, and is therefore much less about plot — and hence much less vulnerable to spoilers that can spoil plots — than traditional [...]
My short story “Bone of my Bone” has found a home in the literary magazine Cosmopsis. It’s a great little magazine; I couldn’t have asked for a better editor than Jason Bulger. Here’s where you can snag your copy. http://www.cosmopsis.com/store/cq2.html Oh, and if you’re not thoroughly up on your John Barth, here’s the definition of [...]
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