SciFi Scanner (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
The puppeteer / director is best known for the Muppets and Star Wars, but his fantasy influence extends to Little Shop of Horrors, The Stepford Wives and even Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... Marvel Comics' New Cosmic Tale . SFX asks: What were the worst SF and fantasy films of the decade? Mary Robinette Kowal: The Fantastic Stylings of Frank Oz (Beyond the Muppets) . @The Nervous Breakdown: Gwenda Bond on Canon Fodder : "In Kentucky [...] newspapers have been particularly aflame lately [...] The controversies in question? Books that teenagers want to read."...
Discourse.net (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Via Cheerfully Demented (via ), details of auctions in which winners get the right to be “Tuckerized” in novels by Cory Doctorow, Charlie Stross, Nalo Hopkinson, David Brin, Elizabeth Bear, Julie Czerneda and Mary Robinette Kowal. Tuckerizing is the inclusion of a real person's name in a fictional piece (according to boingboing). Apparently the norm is to get a minor...
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... of Tintin and Jeff VanderMeer and the trouble with truffles . SciFi Scanner on Ten Fantasy Meals Mary Robinette Kowal Would Rather Eat Than Thanksgiving Leftovers . Odyssey Workshop on Finding Reputable Literary Agents . Rachel Aaron on Middling . Charlie Stross on The myth of the starship . Justine Larbalestier on Blogging & Teaching . Jim Rubart on Marketing Principles:...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... many writers -- Charlie Stross, Nalo Hopkinson, David Brin, Elizabeth Bear, Julie Czerneda and Mary Robinette Kowal and me! -- to donate "tuckerizations" in forthcoming works for a charity auction. Tuckerizing is the inclusion of a real person's name in a fictional piece (previous tuckerizations from charity auctions in my novels include General Graeme Sutherland...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... many writers -- Charlie Stross, Nalo Hopkinson, David Brin, Elizabeth Bear, Julie Czerneda and Mary Robinette Kowal and me! -- to donate "tuckerizations" in forthcoming works for a charity auction. Tuckerizing is the inclusion of a real person's name in a fictional piece (previous tuckerizations from charity auctions in my novels include General Graeme Sutherland...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... many writers -- Charlie Stross, Nalo Hopkinson, David Brin, Elizabeth Bear, Julie Czerneda and Mary Robinette Kowal and me! -- to donate "tuckerizations" in forthcoming works for a charity auction. Tuckerizing is the inclusion of a real person's name in a fictional piece (previous tuckerizations from charity auctions in my novels include General Graeme Sutherland...
