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Frequency Rotation: Janelle Monáe, “Neon Valley Street”

2010/06/14
By Jason Heller
Frequency Rotation: Janelle Monáe, “Neon Valley Street”

Each week, Frequency Rotation examines a different song with a speculative-fiction theme. Genre, musical quality, and overall seriousness may vary. Everyone from Gary Numan to Daft Punk has written songs about androids. Predictably, many of these so...
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OK, where do I start with that? I and J.

2010/06/13
By Jo Walton
OK, where do I start with that? I and J.

This week our alphabetical survey of where to start reading different writers gets to I—or it would, if I wasn’t the shortest section of my bookshelves apart from the entirely absent Q. So as well as I, we will take in the rather more prolific J. ...
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Blogging Warner’s Opera: What’s Opera, Doc?

2010/06/12
By René Walling
Blogging Warner’s Opera: What’s Opera, Doc?

Under stormy skies, a helmed figure calls lightning, controls the winds and moves mountains. Is it Thor, mighty God of thunder? No, it is simply Elmer Fudd singing his classic line asking the audience to “Be vewy qwiet, I’m hunting wabbits” bef...
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The Classical Approach

2010/06/11
By David Drake

In my previous post I discussed what the literature of ancient Greece and Rome meant to my writing generally. Here I’ll show you how the classics have specifically affected my latest novel, The Legions of Fire. This has two parts: first, the texts a...
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Flying away from Fairyland: Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz

2010/06/11
By Mari Ness
Flying away from Fairyland: Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz

After eighteen Oz books, Ruth Plumly Thompson had understandably grown tired of the series, not to mention the ongoing fight with her publishers. Reilly and Lee continued to print the Oz books with multiple and frequently inexc...
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Star Trek Re-Watch: “By Any Other Name”

2010/06/11
By Eugene Myers
Star Trek Re-Watch: “By Any Other Name”

“By Any Other Name” Story by Jerome Bixby Teleplay by D.C. Fontana and Jerome Bixby Directed by Marc Daniels Season 2, Episode 21 Production episode: 2x21 Original air date: February 23, 1968 Star date: 4657.5 Mission summary Enterprise fo...
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The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Path of Daggers, Part 14

2010/06/11
By Leigh Butler
The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Path of Daggers, Part 14

Allo-allo, WOT readers! Welcome to another Wheel of Time Re-read! Today’s entry covers Chapter 23 of The Path of Daggers, because it turns out that Chapter 24 is STUPID LONG, and I just canna do it, Captain. I din’t have the power! Previous re-re...
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Read the first three chapters of Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings

2010/06/10
By Management Services
Read the first three chapters of Brandon Sanderson’s The Way of Kings

Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series, #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of his own, every bit as ambitious and immersive. The Way of Kings, book one of The S...
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The Way of Kings: An Introduction

2010/06/10
By Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings: An Introduction

I’ve been asked to introduce The Way Of Kings to you. And I have no idea how to start. This is an odd position for me. Before, I’ve found it easy to explain my novels. Each one was built around one or two central premises. The gang of thieves ...
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I’d love this book if I didn’t loathe the protagonist: Harry Turtledove and Judith Tarr’s Household Gods

2010/06/10
By Jo Walton
I’d love this book if I didn’t loathe the protagonist: Harry Turtledove and Judith Tarr’s Household Gods

Harry Turtledove and Judith Tarr’s Household Gods is a well-written book that always annoys the heck out of me. I thought about it after finishing Them Bones and wondering what other stories have time travel that don’t achieve anything. [Read more...
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