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December’s Scifi Book Club Meeting

Posted in book review, books, scifi, tagged , , , , on December 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Sorry for the delay in posting this recap. Our scifi book club meeting for December was our best-attended yet, with 11 participants! We read Theodore Sturgeon’s The Dreaming Jewels. It’s a very dark story of Horty, a boy with mysterious powers, who runs away to the carnival. Perhaps because Theodore Sturgeon was primarily a short [...]

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Hugo & Nebula Awards!

Posted in books, recs, science fiction, scifi, tagged , , , , , , , on April 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

It’s that time of year again; the grass is turning green, the trees are budding out, the Nebula awards ceremony is coming up and the Hugo award nominees have been announced! The Nebula nominations were announced in February, of course. I haven’t read any of them myself (sad day!) but I’m about to start Boneshaker [...]

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Pattern Recognition

Posted in book review, books, essay, genre, lit crit, recs, science fiction, scifi on November 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »

It’s been a while since William Gibson‘s Pattern Recognition came out, and I still haven’t managed to read it. I enjoyed Neuromancer very much, but haven’t been impressed by some of his other work. Nevertheless, this interview in the Blackbird Archive is fantastic. Most of it, you’ll notice, is an extended meditation on what constitutes [...]

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