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Science Fiction and Other ODDysseys (Free subscription) | yesterday
I'm still digging out from WFC and had an eventful week. I did receive two rejections for stories this week. Ah well. It's all a process. I just have to kick them back out there. I've also rejoined a critique group and met with my new business partner in yet another endeavor. I'll be team teaching workshops on developing an online presence with Jennifer March of JMA Services . My review of The Owl...
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Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | yesterday
Opposites Attract Challenge Hosted by: Jen's Book Talk To play just read books that have at least one word in the title opposite to another book title's word. You can only use a book once though; not in 2 different sets. And be sure to use some of these with your other challenges if you can! There are many possibilities and combinations to come up with! Also if you have to; use the authors name as...
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Mike Hudack (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
“This is the terrain explored by Philip K. Dick in his classic short story “The Minority Report,” and in the Steven Spielberg movie based on it, in which an official government department of “Precrime” identifies, charges, and jails people on the basis of anticipated actions.” - December 2009: Mark Bowden on Sexual Predators | vanityfair.com
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A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre or series or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated to feel like they’re on the outside looking in. But geeks aren’t born; they’re made. And sometimes it only takes the right starting point to bring newbies into various intimidatingly...
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SF Signal (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
[Interviewer's Note: This is a series of interviews featuring the contributors of The Apex Book of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar. It'll run every Monday to Friday until I run out of interviews. Two of these interviews will be reprinted in Apex Magazine but the rest are exclusive to SF Signal.] Born in 1976 in Dunkirk (France), Mélanie Fazi mostly writes short stories and has published two...
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Eurogamer (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Sci-fi wizard working on three games. Award winning British author Richard K. Morgan has been hired by EA to oversee the stories of three new games. Morgan, author of Altered Carbon (Philip K. Dick Award) and Black Man (Arthur C. Clarke Award), confirmed that the projects will all be science fiction, and he's rather over excited about his new position. "Video-gaming is the only thing in my life...
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thedeplorableword (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
“Let me sum it up this way. Science fiction has slowly and ineluctably settled into a monotonous death: it has become inbred, derivative, stale. Suddenly you people have come in, some of the greatest talents currently in existence, and now we have a new life, a new start. As for my own role in the BLADE RUNNER project, I can only say that I did not know that a work of mine or a set of ideas of...
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Mind Hacks (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The Philip K. Dick novel The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch features a portable device which allows patients to consult with the virtual psychiatrist Dr Smile . If I'm not mistaken, the system seems to have re-invented by this research team: Virtual patient: a photo-real virtual human for VR-based therapy Stud Health Technol Inform . 2004;98:154-6. Kiss B, Benedek B, Szijártó G, Csukly...
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Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The most recent Mind Meld on SF Signal deals with what speculative fiction novels first published in the last 10 years should be included in high school literature courses. I had to read the Chrisalids and 1984 in class, but most of my speculative fiction reading was done after school. I read mostly fantasy but felt after a while that I should read some of the SF classics as well, and started with...
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The Blog of Walker (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Stumbled across this today. It's a collection of audio clips, mp3s, from old Paul Williams interviews of Philip K. Dick. Pretty cool stuff. H/t to Total Dick-Head .
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Technoccult (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Underground comic artist Robert Crumb has recently joined the ranks of the perennial heretics known as the Gnostics. According to an Agence France-Presse report, Crumb admitted he was a Gnostic during a press conference for the international launch of ‘The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb’. This announcement, along with his new [...] Related posts: The Confessions Of Robert Crumb...
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Book Calendar (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Reading Woman, August Macke (1887-1914) Daily Thoughts 10/30/2009 I read some more of Sandman Slim during lunch. It is very entertaining. I am almost finished reading it. It might be a bit too dark for some people. It is also a bit profane so some people may not like it. The story is very good though and the writing is excellent for the type of story it tells. This morning, I did a display of mysteries...
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The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
With Buddhist chants and psychedlic battlecries, Dead Skeletons are the perfect outlet for the troubled Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman What can you say about the Brian Jonestown Massacre leader Anton Newcombe that hasn't already been documented extensively on paper, record and film? He has been held up as a musical genius, tortured artist, cult leader, Hollywood Babylon hooligan and psychedelic...
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Dad29 (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Interesting. In 1799, the Federalist minority of the Virginia House of Delegates produced an extended defense of the Alien and Sedition Acts. This Minority Report responded to Madison's famous Virginia Resolutions and efforts by Virginia Republicans to tar the Adams Administration with having exceeded its powers under the federal Constitution. Originally attributed to John Marshall by biographer Albert...
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Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Reverse decision-making is an amusing and informative exercise in which a group is asked to list what they would do if they were trying to produce a disaster. In no time, various actions such as "Don't seek legal advice" and "Alienate your best customers" may be on the board. As the participants ponder the list, someone usually says, "You know, we're sort of doing that third...
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kellen8d3r9 | 10/24/2009
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elda97k44 | 10/21/2009
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) –Daniel Dae Kim (ABC's "Lost") and John Slattery (AMC's "Mad Men") will join Matt Damon in "The Adjustment Bureau," a sci-fi romance based on a Philip K. Dick short story. Damon plays a rising congressman who meets a beautiful ballet dancer (Emily Blunt) only to discover that a strange organization is keeping them apart. Kim plays a mysterious staffer at the Bureau...
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