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Dragon*Con Starts Tomorrow!


Here it is the eve of Dragon*Con–which sounds so fancy, doesn’t it?–and I’m going to be live-blogging it for you.
Well, hopefully live-blogging. I’ve got my fingers crossed that I can actually access the web from whichever of the DragonCon hotels I’ll be in at any particular moment. So it may not be exactly live. Um, [...]

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Monster-free China: Mieville’s The City & The City


I shouldn’t admit this, but I am always a little surprised when an author meets a due date. Being a good writer requires a lot of thinking and planning, and those acts are often indistinguishable from their unruly stepcousin procrastination. So it should be no surprise that writers are late with their work sometimes.
When China [...]

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Riverworld Saga Author Philip Jose Farmer, 91, has died


His career spanned decades, his influence on the genre has and will stretch farther than that. Author Philip Jose Farmer, 91, died in his sleep this morning.
Philip was best known for his Riverworld Saga, an intriguing collection of books that tells of an afterlife wherein historical figures mingle amongst each other as they are spawned [...]

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The Real Fantastic Stuff, an essay by Richard K. Morgan


The following is an original essay by Richard K. Morgan. I hope you enjoy:
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“I tell you, it’s no game serving down in the city”
- Gorbag – forgotten orc captain from Minas Morgul
I’m not much of a Tolkien fan – not since I was about twelve or fourteen anyway (which, it strikes me, is about the [...]

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