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27 Apr Usually I Friends Lock This Stuff…

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...But this one is interactive ...

26 Apr Twelve Collections and a Teashop, Zoran Živković’

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Some time soon, Zoran Živković's new collection, Twelve Collections and a Teashop will be released from PS Publishing. Živković, a Serbian author, has found a Western audience in recent years since his story cycle, 'The Library', was published in Leviathan Three, and later won a World...

26 Apr Random Thought

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Have you have noticed how a lot of American hip hop sounds like it's the soundtrack for pornography? Shake your ass, show me what you got! This one's for the boys and the girls on the streets: make sure you listen careful to the words...

25 Apr ANZAC Day

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Len Hall Gallipoli veteran Gently passed away thinking we learned not a thing Played the Commonwealth cannon-fodder, his ominous words That if he had to do it again, he'd fight for the Turks And the facts made way for the mythology, like you remember Bondy's...

24 Apr Michael James Peek 1947 – 1987 (and Now, 2007)

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Twenty years ago today, my father died. This is one of the few surviving photos of him. In case you can't tell, that's me on the horse, and I'm terrified. My father was named Michael James Peek, and you don't know him, and neither do I....

24 Apr Pixel Stained Technopeasant Wretch Day (theleeharveyoswaldband is available for free, in other words

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It is Pixel Stained Technopeasant Wretch Day. The reason for it, if you don't know it, is some fight within the SFWA (Science Fiction Writers of America, I think, though the A could easily stand for association). As you can see, the SFWA means a...

23 Apr i have no idea what this really means

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What American accent do you have? Created by Xavier on Memegen.net Mid-Atlantic. This is what everyone calls a Philadelphia accent although it's also the accent of south Jersey, Baltimore, and Wilmington. Well, everyone that lives near there, that is....

23 Apr Paper Cities

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For those paying attention to these things, at the start of the year I sold a story called 'The Funeral, Ruined', to E. Sedia for her anthology, Moonlit Domes. The anthology has, since then, been retitled to Paper Cities , and it will now be published...

23 Apr Thoughts on Books for Today

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John Au-Yeung, who works in Galaxy Books, responds to an article about booksellers ripping off everyone on the new Harry Potter: The article does not come close to presenting the facts: Harry Potter #07 comes in with a cost price of around $30 and the recommended...

22 Apr My Declining Beauty (Images from a Party)

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Last night I went to a cocktail party at Keith Stevenson's place. I was due an appearance at local scene event, and Keith's place is small, thus limiting the number of people, though I still only knew a handful of folk. I arrived after work...