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Best Books of 2010: Top 10 Science Fiction and Fantasy Selections, Focus on Nos. 1–5
Amazon’s 2010 Science Fiction/Fantasy Top 10 List has just been posted:
#1 – The Golden Age by Michal Ajvaz, translated by Andrew Oakland (Dalkey Archive Press)#2 – How to Live in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (Pantheon)#3 – Redem… Continue reading
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Best Books of 2010: Top 10 Science Fiction and Fantasy Selections, Nos. 6–10
It’s been a banner year for original and noteworthy science fiction/fantasy novels, with a lot of energy in the area of hybrids that clearly combine “literary” and “genre” influences. Fantasy has also had a better year than pure science fiction, ov… Continue reading
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2010 Novels: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year So Far?
As the SF/Fantasy awards season for 2009 winds down–the Hugo Awards were just announced this past week–it’s time to take a look at 2010. This year, thus far, has been very different. A kind of sea-change has occurred, with the majority of the… Continue reading
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Graphic Novel Friday: The Simpsons & Futurama: Together at Last!
As creator Matt Groening mentions in his introduction, fans have been clamoring for a crossover between his two animated series, The Simpsons and Futurama, for years. Yet, The Simpsons characters already exist in the Futurama universe, albeit as a f… Continue reading
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Guest Blogger Mark Charan Newton with Some Last Recommended Non-/Genre Reading
Recently, Mark Charan Newton scored big with a multi-book deal both in the United Kingdom and North America. Nights of Villjamur is the first secondary world fantasy in Newton's Legends of the Red Sun series. The novel was been published by Rand… Continue reading
Short Story: “The Cockroach Hat”, by Terry Bisson
“The Cockroach Hat”, by Terry Bisson. 6/10
The Wizard in the Space Station: A Look Back at the Works of the Late Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Great retrospective looking back at Clarke’s most influential works. But relatively little space has been devoted to Clarke’s writing—the notable exception being the essays of his collaborator and friend, Gregory Benford, an astrophysicist and author of many science fiction novels … Continue reading