Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Happy mooncake festival! In terms of self-promotion, The World SF News Blog has migrated to Wordpress (update your bookmarks and feeds!). They're also available on Twitter . In local news, Dean Francis Alfar and Joseph Nacino just released a virtual anthology of Philippine secondary-world fiction: The Farthest Shore . Paper Tigers is also focusing on Philippine children's literature this month. And...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Cool news! Scott Westerfeld 's Midnighters is coming to NBC . The story "revolves around a group of people born at the stroke of midnight who have access to the 25th hour of each day, which they use to stop crime." [via SFX ] Interviews and Profiles: John Scalzi answers Stargate Universe questions . Innsmouth Free Press has a brief interview with Mary Robinette Kowal . 3 Questions with Mindy...
Laptophobia (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
I have been fan of the Death's Head series, hard hitting military science fiction, since its inception. Curious to learn a little about the author, David Gunn , whose pen uses adrenaline instead of ink, I was surprised to find out that he writes incognito. Probably the most relevant source of information on Mr. Gunn, besides his infrequently updated Myspace page, is an insightful interview over at...
ConWebBlog: The Weblog of ConWebWat (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
A Sept. 22 MRC Culture & Media Institute item (and NewsBusters post ) by Colleen Raezler carries the headline "ABC Perpetuates Myth of Violent Pro-Lifers." We suspect that George Tiller doesn't consider that to be a myth. Or Barnett Slepian . Or David Gunn . Or Robert Sanderson and Emily Lyons . Or Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols .
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
At 7:20 a.m. on Friday, a pro-life protester was shot . He was 63 years old and had spent much of his life protesting abortion. He was brandishing a graphic photo of a fetus outside a Michigan high school when someone sped by in a car and shot him down. The suspect, now in custody, is also linked to another recent, unrelated murder and told police that he had planned to kill a third person. The other...
Quod Ero Spero (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
Yesterday, the New York Times reported: Amtrak reached a preliminary agreement to move to an annex of Pennsylvania Station planned for the James A. Farley Post Office Building, state, federal and railroad officials announced on Sunday. It offers this detail behind the progress: “The breakthrough was made possible by the government’s agreeing to Amtrak’s request to share [...]
Feministe (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
Last night, Senator Ted Kennedy passed away at the age of 77, after 47 years of serving his country in the United States Senate. As we currently still face the threat of harrassment and violence at women’s health clinics from the likes of Randall Terry and Operation Rescue, let’s remember the work of Senator Kennedy to [...]
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
"The lizard’s mistake is to move. The moment it swaps granite for red dirt and the temptation of food, it’s dead. Because my blade hisses through the air to open its spine from skull to tail. It’s a small lizard. All the big ones are eaten. Picking it up with metal fingers, I hold it over the fire until its flesh crisps and the skin peels. The man I offer to share with doesn’t...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 07/30/2009
A judge declared at a Tuesday hearing that there is enough evidence against Scott Roeder to move forward to trial. Roeder is accused of killing Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider from Kansas. As I noted yesterday, Roeder is unfortunately not the first person to murder an abortion provider. Paul Hill assassinated [...]
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
Today marks the 15 year anniversary of the assassination of Dr. John Bayard Britton, a Florida abortion provider, and Britton’s his body guard James Herman Barrett. Dr. Britton and Mr. Barrett were murdered by Paul Hill, an anti-choice fanatic. According to a 1994 story in the Washington Post: Britton, who authorities said had received [...]
RealChoice (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
Pamela Colson , age 31, was 12 weeks pregnant when friends drive her to Women's Medical Services in Pensacola, Florida, for a safe and legal abortion on June 26, 1994. Pamela bled heavily during the drive home. According to her friends, Pamela became unresponsive, so they stopped at a motel. Two passers-by did CPR while Pamela's friends called for an ambulance. Pamela was taken to a hospital where...
The Entropy Pump (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
Del Rey has media-tie ins, fantasy by Terry Brooks, AH by Turtledove and a little bit SF. Nothing really exciting, but one of the Turtledoves sounds at least interesting. Harry Turtledove: The Man with the Iron Heart (Jul 09) (AH) I’m not really into AH, but a “What if there had be a Nazi resistance after the [...]
Motor City Liberal (Free subscription) | 06/13/2009
From Think Progress In the wake of the murder of Dr. George Tiller by an anti-abortion extremist, the very real problem of extremist violence against abortion providers and clinics has gained a fresh spotlight, even though that violence is not new. After the 1993 murder of an abortion provider, Dr. David Gunn, Congress passed the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which made any use of “force,...
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
In the wake of the murder of Dr. George Tiller by an anti-abortion extremist, the very real problem of extremist violence against abortion providers and clinics has gained a fresh spotlight, even though that violence is not new. After the 1993 murder of an abortion provider, Dr. David Gunn, Congress passed the Freedom of Access [...]
gravity's rainbow (Free subscription) | 06/07/2009
George Tiller was murdered a week ago in his church. He was one of just a few doctors in the United States who provide late term abortions. Ezra Klein points out that his murder was a political act and that Congress needs to act accordingly: Tiller was murdered so that those in his line of work would [...]
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