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Vulture (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
Photo: Getty Images, Courtesy of Ace Books Berg Climbs Dune : Peter Berg will be the next director to fail to bring the grandeur of Frank Herbert 's Dune to the screen, following David Lynch and whoever the hell directed that Sci Fi Channel mini-series. Producer Kevin Misher and Paramount believe that novel's twin themes of ecological peril and expensive special effects will be especially appealing...
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Stainless Steel Droppings (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Halting State ~Charles Stross --published 2007 --351 pages, Ace Books --4.5/5 stars A post cyberpunk, near-future caper. A spy-vs-spy story of greed, fraud and deception set in and among the world of MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games). [...]
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Stainless Steel Droppings (Free subscription) | 01/21/2008
--published 2007 --278 pages, Ace Books --Pre-nominations list for Nebula Award --4.75/5 stars Tripping around the internet I have seen a variety of reviews for Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Joe Haldeman's latest offering, The [...]
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Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 01/15/2008
Hi, Happy New Year. It is the start of the new (Spring) semester and I need to get back to my day job. However, I have had the opportunity to do some substantial updates to the ACE IMAGE LIBRARY. http://people.uncw.edu/smithms/ACE.html In addition, while snooping through my files and databases and ZIP disks I havefound that the ACE IAMGE LIBRARY is now in its 10th year! Wow! Time flies when you are...
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Uncle Zip's Window (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
GREY by Jon Armstrong (Night Shade Books) UNDERTOW by Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra) FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF DR. BRAIN by Minister Faust (Del Rey) NOVA SWING by M. John Harrison (Bantam Spectra) GRADISIL by Adam Roberts (Pyr) ALLY by Karen Traviss (Eos) SATURN RETURNS by Sean Williams (Ace Books) Winner announced March 21, 2008.
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TexasBestGrok (Free subscription) | 12/26/2007
Destinies: Volume 1, Number 1 (November/December 1978), edited by James Baen (Ace Books, 1979 ISBN 0-441-14281-8, cover by Stephen Fabian). After he left Galaxy and...
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TexasBestGrok (Free subscription) | 12/26/2007
The Endless Frontier; edited by Jerry Pournelle (Ace Books, 1979, ISBN 0-441-20667-0, cover by Vincent di Fate). Part of an ongoing series (now defunct, apparently)...
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TexasBestGrok (Free subscription) | 12/26/2007
Necromancer, Gordon R. Dickson (Ace Books). Tactics of Mistake, Gordon R. Dickson (Ace Books). (Both also found in an omnibus edition called Three to Dorsai,...
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Responsible Nanotechnology (Free subscription) | 11/05/2007
A few months ago, we wrote about a "Post-Millennial Malaise" and lamented the evident lack of inspiration in current science fiction. We speculated that one of the causes might be "a contraction of imagination and energy stemming from the realization...
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Sun and Shield (Free subscription) | 10/20/2007
I recently read Polaris , by Jack McDevitt . (This is McDevitt's web page .) Polaris was published in 2004 by Ace Books, of New York. McDevitt won the Nebula award for Seeker, a book with the same setting, and main characters, but later in time in McDevitt's sub-creation. I don't usually give away the plots of books, but, in this case, I'm going to. The Polaris was a spaceship, and it was used for...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 09/20/2007
The always-interesting Joel Garreau profiles William Gibson. An excerpt: Thoughts turn to the future of Washington. Could Gibson have predicted that in 2007, two leading candidates for the presidency would be a white woman and a black man? That's the problem with his game, he says. "If I had gone to Ace Books in 1981 and pitched a novel set in a world with a sexually contagious disease that destroys...
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Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 09/17/2007
The British Fantasy Society has announced the nominees for the 2007 British Fantasy Awards a while back. For a full list of categories and nominees, check out this link . The winners will be selected next weekend. . . Best Novel: The August Derleth Award - Chaz Brenchley, BRIDGE OF DREAMS, Ace Books - Mike Carey, THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, Orbit Books - Mark Chadbourn, JACK OF RAVENS: KINGDOM OF THE SERPENT...
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Martinus Scriberlus (Free subscription) | 09/13/2007
"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts ... A graphic representation of data abstracted fro the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity." William Gibson (1984). Neuromancer. Cited from Ace Books, 2000, p. 51.
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Functional Autonomy (Free subscription) | 09/08/2007
I’ve been thinking a lot about narrative since the Develop conference. William Gibson, in this interview, says something important about it: That's the problem with his game, he says. “If I had gone to Ace Books in 1981 and pitched a novel set in a world with a sexually contagious disease that destroys the human immune [...]
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enrevanche (Free subscription) | 09/07/2007
The future is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine. Professional author and amateur futurist William Gibson ruminates a bit, on the occasion of the publication of his new novel (set in the recent past) called Spook Country : "Politics has, like, jacked itself up to my level of weirdness," Gibson acknowledges. "I can work with this," he says, thinking of recent turns...
