John Scalzi - The Ten Worst SciFi Blockbusters of the '00s
WB Blog (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
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on the third hand
Notes from the Labyrinth (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
John Scalzi and Cat Valente have been talking about short fiction rates (as an outgrowth of John's muck-raking posts about a market which pays 1/5 of a cent per word), and since my experience as a short story writer has been quite different from either John's or Cat's, I thought I'd weigh in with the view from here. I should say three things up front: 1. I am both a novelist...
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John Scalzi - The Ten Worst SciFi Blockbusters of the '00s
SciFi Scanner (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
It's that time of year when we look back at what we've lost; specifically, the time we've lost watching Transformers, Doom, Aeon Flux and all the other worst scifi movies of the decade.
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Writing neepery: short story pay!
Tobias S. Buckell Online (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
John Scalzi’s been talking about short stories: how much he’s made at them, and how some people try to pay insultingly low rates and some writers pay it, something he calls Writer Stockholm Syndrome, which I love. This spurs thought about handling short fiction from Sarah Monette, Cat Valente, and Jim Hines. Lots of good thoughts all [...]
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Best Science/Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror I Read in 2009
Mike Brotherton: SF Writer (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... Palahniuk Survivor: A Novel by Chuck Palahniuk Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut The Last Colony by John Scalzi The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Spin by Robert Charles Wilson Crota by Owl Goingback Contagious by Scott Sigler The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi Fleet of Worlds by Ed Lerner The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman...
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December 7, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | yesterday
... . Catherynne M. Valente on Short Fiction and You . Clarkesworld Magazine on Semiprozines, John Scalzi, and Doing Right . Sarah Monette On the Third Hand . Clint Harris on What the Rest of Us Get Paid . Twelfth Planet Press on Sales at Australian cons . Nisi Shawl on Transracial Writing for the Sincere . The Harvard Crimson on Taking Sci Fi Into the Classroom . S.J. Chambers on Alas,...
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SF Tidbits for 12/7/09
SF Signal (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Articles Catherynne M. Valente on Short Fiction and You . Clarkesworld Magazine on Semiprozines, John Scalzi, and Doing Right . Sarah Monette On the Third Hand . Clint Harris on What the Rest of Us Get Paid . Twelfth Planet Press on Sales at Australian cons . Nisi Shawl on Transracial Writing for the Sincere . The Harvard Crimson on Taking Sci Fi Into the Classroom . S.J. Chambers...
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SF Tidbits for 12/3/09
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Interviews /Profiles Tor.com interviews John Joseph Adams . John Scalzi profiles J.C. Hutchins . Dead Robot Society interviews Ashley Miller (podcast). Geekdad interviews Tobias Buckell . Jeffrey Thomas interviews Andy Remic . News ChiZine Publications and Diamond Book Distributors Join Forces . Nominations for the 3rd Annual Black Quill Awards . Cthulhu Christmas Cards! Announcing...
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10 Worst SF Movies of the Decade
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
AMC - Blogs - SciFi Scanner - John Scalzi - The Ten Worst SciFi Blockbusters of the '00s I've seen two, and I liked them.
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Give the man his flag
Vox Popoli (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
I like John Scalzi, I simply don't happen to agree with him very often. But give him his due. Every now and then, he simply knocks one out of the park : Dear homeowners association: When a Medal of Honor recipient wants to have a flagpole in his front yard, you say “Yes, sir. By all means. Thank you, sir.” Because you know what? Dude’s earned that damn flagpole, and...
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SF Tidbits for 12/4/09
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... for $6,500. In The Gloaming is a new (NSFW) series of comedy-horror podcasts. SF Signal Irregular John Anealio gets a song in Starship:Flagship by Mike Resnick . Articles Mark Charan Newton on Why Science Fiction Is Dying & Fantasy Fiction Is The Future . The Year's Best SF and Fantasy, Honorable Mentions, Part 2 . Jesse Bullington on Any Genre, Potentially: The Stories of Now . Hal...
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December 3, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Paul Di Filippo writes in to mention this Lee Brown Coye auction to help save a mural. And there's a new issue of Expanded Horizons , with a story from Mia Tijam. ( Joseph Nacino , on the other hand, just got accepted in Fantasy Magazine . It's the same story that won the 2nd Graphic/Fiction Awards so it has Neil Gaiman's stamp of approval, just so you know.) Interviews Tor.com interviews John...
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December 4, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... Part 2 . Mark Charan Newton on Why Science Fiction Is Dying & Fantasy Fiction Is The Future . John C. Wright On Writer's Block . Jesse Bullington on Any Genre, Potentially: The Stories of Now . Hal Duncan on The Marriage(s) of Science Fiction / Fantasy . J.C. Hutchins on Rejection rules! (The “7th Son” story, from podcast to print) . Liz Gorinsky on Zombie Christmas Redux...
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Yeah, that’s gold
Another Damned Blog (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
I don’t know anything about J.C. Hutchins, except what’s provided in this post on John Scalzi’s blog about his new book, 7th Son: Descent. But I do know that as opening lines of novels go, “The president of the United States is dead. He was murdered in the morning sunlight by a four-year-old boy…” is [...]
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"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"
This Way to Texas (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
The rollicking AH homage to Ernie Kovacs penned by Ed Morris and myself just hit at the December issue of "The Fifth Dimension", one of the magazines published by Sam's Dot Publishing. It's loads of fun: http://www.samsdotpublishing.com/fifth/cover.htm Meanwhile, John Scalzi - upon reading about Black Matrix and its miniscule pay rate - went into some kind of meltdown on his...