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Review: Clarkesworld, Issue 71, Aug 2012
I recently subscribed to Clarkesworld as well, something I’ve been meaning to do for a while, since I actually buy their issues when I get a chance. Now I get them delivered to me, thanks to Weightless...
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What I’ve Been Reading: Comics (O’Malley, Chao, Kim, Talbot, Cooper)
Have you seen the introductory essay for my new indie comics column at SF Signal? Though I am aiming to keep myself to speculative fiction comics for them, because that fits with the scope of what SF...
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You Should Read: Fireside Magazine, issues 1 and 2
I hadn’t been reading much the last few months. My to-read list piled up around me. I culled my bookshelf, pulled out a couple of bags of things I could live without because either I had them digitally...
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You Should Read INTERFICTIONS: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing
Synopsis: Nineteen writers dig into the imaginative spaces between conventional genres—realistic and fantastical, scholarly and poetic, personal and political—and bring up gems of new fiction:...
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You Should Read Maureen F. McHugh’s “After The Apocalypse”
I knew that Maureen F. McHugh was going to be a Guest of Honor at the 2013 Readercon, but I hadn’t read any of her work. Luckily I was given a copy of her short story collection, After the Apocalypse,...
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Review: Apex magazine (Issues 40, 41, 42, and 43)
I subscribed to Apex Magazine for the first time this year. By the time I got a chance to read the accumulated issues, I had four of them waiting for me, so I’m going to do one big round up. Because...
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Review: Beneath Ceaseless Skies #104, 105
Furthering my quest to catch up on my reading list, I finally started on my back issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies. The magazine usually publishes two stories per month, focusing on “Literary Adventure...
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Jan 2013 Stats
In an effort to keep better track of the work I do as a writer, reviewer, editor, and publisher, I’m going to try to post regular stats updates. I did this one by creating a post at the beginning of...
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I Read David Marusek’s “Getting To Know You”
I’d never heard of David Marusek when I was handed this collection*. Just told that I would like it, and I should read it. It sat on my bookshelf for a few months while I caught up with other reading...
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Reading, better.
Recently, a friend emailed me about a job opening for a book reviewer position, “since I think it’s aligned to your career path right now”. Every week I get emails from companies that want me to read,...
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Review: In Search of and Others, by Will Ludwigsen
4* (our of 5) for “In Search Of”. It’s a weird format–a list of facts about your life that you didn’t know. But in telling you these things, Ludwigsen tells you who you are–a man who became a cop, who...
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Book Review: “Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus,...
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Pros: If you’re struggling with creating a organized routine for writing, and you haven’t heard these ideas before, there are a couple of good thoughts here. Cons: The book is...
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Book Review: Dial M for Monkey
3 of 5* Only 60+ pages; this quick read can be started and finished in well under an hour, and that alone makes it not a waste of time. The stories are a mix of “high impact” and “needs an editor” – I...
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What I’ve Been Reading: Comics (O’Malley, Chao, Kim, Talbot, Cooper)
Have you seen the introductory essay for my new indie comics column at SF Signal? Though I am aiming to keep myself to speculative fiction comics for them, because that fits with the scope of what SF...
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You Should Read: Fireside Magazine, issues 1 and 2
I hadn’t been reading much the last few months. My to-read list piled up around me. I culled my bookshelf, pulled out a couple of bags of things I could live without because either I had them digitally...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Been Reading: Short Fiction by Waldrop, Kritzer, and Murakami (free...
Three short stories for a Saturday: First, Howard Waldrop has a new short up over at Tor.com. “The Wolf-Man of Alcatraz” is excerpted from his forthcoming Horse of a Different Color, out on Nov. 12...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Been Reading: Essays
So far in January, I have read: Am I Black Enough For You? Rumpus, Retha Powers, January 2014: “I was black. I wasn’t black enough. I was too black. Sometimes I was so upset there was nothing to do but...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Been Reading: Rickert, Burstein, Sharma, Tobler
This week’s reading was a collection of stories I randomly discovered online, either because someone recommended it, or because I stumbled it across it while looking for something else. “The Mothers of...
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What SF Wished It Was: a review of “Transit of Earth”, a Playboy Science...
Overall: 3 out of 5 stars, with individual stories rated differently below. All male authors; anthology published in 1971, with stories originally appearing in Playboy Magazine from 1958 to 1971. This...
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Review: Clarkesworld 101 (Feb 2015)
LADY AND THE SHIP, by Atilgan Asikuzun The Last Surviving Gondola Widow, by Kristine Kathryn Rusch 5/5 * A properly steampunk story, in that the time period fits, it contained Victorian Super...
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