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>Hi SciFiNoir Family:
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>I am compiling a quotes for a quote generator that we are installing
>on the planned portal. Could you guys submit some of your favorites?
>They can be from any type of speculative fiction genre or media type.
>Quotes can come from your own
"Dr. Lester K. Spence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I sent an email to the list a few weeks ago when the sh*t hit the fan,
>and wrote a column about it. I wanted to thank everyone that
>responded...the story came out today or yesterday. It can be found
>here:
>http://bv.channel.aol.com/n
http://jam.canoe.ca/Books/2005/07/14/1131816-ap.html
Harry Potter retailers wage dark war of their own; slash prices
By JANE WARDELL
LONDON (AP) - As fans desperate to read the latest adventures of schoolboy
wizard Harry Potter place orders for the new book due out Saturday,
bookshops and other
http://www.comcast.net/entertainment/index.jsp?cat=ENTERTAINMENT&fn=/2005/07/18/181158.html
Sixth Potter Novel Breaks British Records
By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer
NEW YORK - There's clearly something about Harry. The new "Harry Potter
and the Half-Blood Prince" sold an astonishing 6.9 m
PRESS RELEASE
Cascadia Con is proud to announce the publication of their Science Fiction
and Fantasy Anthology; "Northwest Passages: A Cascadian Anthology."
Hosted by Cascadia Con and edited by Cris DiMarco, Northwest Passages will
have its official launch at Cascadia Con on September 2, 2005,
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050825/ap_on_hi_te/libraries_book_downloads
Libraries Offering Audiobook Downloads
By MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press Writer
GUILDERLAND, N.Y. - A new way to borrow audiobooks from the library
involves no CDs, no car trips, no fines and no risk of being shushed.
Rath
Publishing update (in response to my query):
Hello, Brent ...
Sorry to take so long to get back to you. I'm a magician; I know how
to
turn e-mail into snail mail.
The new, improved version of the first Imaro novel is set for this
coming February, from Night Shade Books. I'm assuming Am
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/12/amazon_triple_patent/
All your reviews belong to Amazon.com
Patent grab triple whammy
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Published Saturday 12th November 2005
Amazon.com has been granted three detailed patents covering purchase
circles, consumer review
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/11/20/back_to_utopia/
Back to utopia
Can the antidote to today's neoliberal triumphalism be found in the pages
of far-out science fiction?
By Joshua Glenn | November 20, 2005
IN 1888, when Massachusetts newspaperman Edward Bellamy publishe
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/18/books/review/18paul.html
Essay
What Are the Blogs Saying About Me?
By PAMELA PAUL
Published: December 18, 2005
ALMOST every author I know with a new book does it - the embarrassing,
nearly irresistible, ritualistic dip into Internet-assisted narcissism. I
kno
http://www.boston.com/news/local/rhode_island/articles/2006/01/07/some_of_nations_best_libraries_have_books_bound_in_human_skin/
Some of nation's best libraries have books bound in human skin
By M.L. Johnson, Associated Press Writer
January 7, 2006
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Brown University's library
Teresa Nielsen Hayden, a science fiction editor at Tor Books writes:
The life expectancies of books
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Alpha, the Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Workshop for Young Writers
The ALPHA SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers (ages 14 - 19) will be held at
the University of Pittsburghs Greensburg Campus July 19 - 28, 2006 in
conjunction with Pittsburgh's science fiction c
http://www.newyorkmag.com/arts/books/features/16457/index.html
Off the Shelf: Colson Whitehead
The author of The Intuitionist and the forthcoming Apex Hides the Hurt
tells the story behind five books plucked at random from his collection.
By Boris Kachka
Critics use up a lot of ink ferreting o
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/4840436.stm
Japanese comics go mobile
By Richard Taylor
Editor, BBC Click Online
>From texting to surfing the internet and making video calls, the ways in
which mobile phones can be used seem to be ever expanding. In Japan,
another string has b
Posted 3/27/2006
WARSAW (AP) - Stanislaw Lem, a popular science fiction writer whose novel
Solaris was filmed twice, died Monday in his native Poland, his secretary
said. He was 84.
Lem died in Krakow, Wojciech Zemek told The Associated Press. Zemek did
not give other details or the cause of dea
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Film of the book: top 50 adaptations revealed
Mark Brown
Wednesday April 19, 2006
The Guardian
As anyone who has seen any version of Anna Karenina knows, a great book
does not necessarily make a great film. And while The Godfather was a
great movie, was it a great novel? Probably not.
Thes
Exposition on the economics of fiction publishing by Tor employee Anna
Louise
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http://locusmag.com/2006/News/06_LocusWinners.html
Saturday 17 June 2006
Locus Awards Winners
Winners of this year's Locus Awards, voted by readers of Locus Magazine in
the annual Locus Poll, were were announced this afternoon at the Science
Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle.
Best Sc
http://www.baen.com/
Jim Baen 1943-2006
We regret to inform you that publisher Jim Baen passed away on June 28th.
He suffered a massive stroke on June 12, 2006 and never woke from it. Jim
Baen was a founding partner of Baen Books, one of the largest independent
publishers of popular fiction. Si
I'm looking for a short story collection (or
maybe anthology) from a while back, which
uniquely featured stories which were based on
economic principals. (So it advertised in the
blurb on the back of the jacket.)
The one story that stands out in my memory: In a
brief introduction, set in italics,
http://indiamos.wordpress.com/2006/06/30/making-castoff/
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On a screen near you ...
Read the book? No, but I loved the trailer
Killian Fox
Sunday July 16, 2006
The Observer
The days of judging a book by its cover are drawing to a close. Publishers
have finally tapped int
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/20/technology/20basics.html
Technology Rewrites the Book
By PETER WAYNER
Published: July 20, 2006
When Steve Mandel, a management trainer from Santa Cruz, Calif., wants to
show his friends why he stays up late to peer through a telescope, he
pulls out a copy of h
Thanks.
Brent
"ravenadal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Great website for aspiring screenwriters. Features complete
>screenplays from hundreds of popular movies.
>
>http://sfy.ru/scripts.html?range=a
>
>
>~rave!
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Subject: Seeking Sci Fi Story
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 16:22:13 -0600
One of my co-workers wondered if I recognized this one, but though it
sounds faintly familiar I can't actually place it.
Anybody else recognize it from this limited description:
"The sto
http://punkrockpenguin.net/waste/amuse/badcovers/index2.html
http://pbackwriter.blogspot.com/2007/01/devil-made-me-do-it.html
Thursday, January 04, 2007
The Devil Made Me Do It
The Devil's Publishing Dictionary
Advance - a sum paid to the author's agent after contract signing, as soon
as the editor puts in a payment request to accounting, which is mispl
What is Oort-Cloud?
"For now, it's a blog that gives us a chance to present some fundamental
ideas, get feedback about them from other people, and comment on events
and concepts that are, or might be, relevant to what Oort-Cloud is all
about.
But Oort won't always be just a blog. Oort-Cloud will
The Money Entry 2007: Science Fiction Income
http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004893.html
From: "Joan Biella"
CC:
Subject: seeking input for bibliography
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:51:24 -0800
I'm posting this message for a friend of a friend. This French
researcher wants to compile a bibliography of contemporary American
science fiction (big task!). If you're interested in helpi
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From: "Jessica Moyer"
CC:
Subject: unstoppable heroines in SF
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:48:01 -0500
I'm interested in creating a list of unstoppable heroines in SF. I
know fiction-l did one for fantasy heroines a few months back, but I'd
lik
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/01/books/01podb.html
Authors Find Their Voice, and Audience, in Podcasts
By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN
Published: March 1, 2007
Scott Sigler writes science-fiction horror novels, the kind one fan called
"steel-tipped boot on your throat, speed-metal fiction." Mr. Sigler
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18282/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/07/technology/07audio.html
Book Not Ready for Print? You Can Whip Up an Audiobook for a Podcast for
Now
By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN
Published: May 7, 2007
When you are a budding author and you appear on television, it is sure to
enhance book sales.
But what do you do
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-misinterpreted/16524/
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 Misinterpreted
L.A.s august Pulitzer honoree says it was never about censorship
By AMY E. BOYLE JOHNSTON
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
When the Pulitzer Prizes were handed out in May du
http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/magazine/15-06/pl_print
Philip K. Dick Goes Legit With Library of America Canon
Frank Rose
With the Library of America's publication of Philip K. Dick: Four Novels
of the 1960s - edited by Jonathan Lethem, whose own early fiction owes a
lot to Dick's
Masters of Science Fiction
by Todd Mason
Prelaunch: T Minus Two Days
Masters of Science Fiction begins its truncated run on Saturday, Aug. 4,
on ABC, at 10 pm ET/PT... after a delay of more than a year, and the
originally announced order of 13 episodes reduced to six, of which only
four have be
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/technology/06amazon.html
Envisioning the Next Chapter for Electronic Books
By BRAD STONE
Published: September 6, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 5 - Technology evangelists have predicted the
emergence of electronic books for as long as they have envisioned flying
ca
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/books/07cnd-lengle.html
Madeleine LEngle, Childrens Writer, Is Dead
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: September 8, 2007
Madeleine LEngle, who in writing more than 60 books, including childhood
fables, religious meditations and science fiction, weaved emotional
t
http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=22250
Richard Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky discuss newish releases in the
previous week's episode, also archived.
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
The Making of The Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
http://www.mercurynews.com/centralcoast/ci_6945542
UC-Santa Cruz to put novelist Robert Heinlein's archive online
By Lisa M. Krieger
Mercury News
Article Launched: 09/20/2007
The complete archive of renowned American science-fiction writer Robert
Heinlein will be made available online, thanks
http://jam.canoe.ca/Books/2007/09/20/4510950-sun.html
William Gibson no fan of gadgets
By LINDSEY WARD - Sun Media
WINNIPEG - The future is now, says William Gibson. And he should know. As
the father of the cyberpunk sci-fi subgenre and coiner of the word
"cyberspace," the award-winning author
From: "Grover, Dena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking for a speaker
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:58:35 -0700
Hi,
I am a librarian in Roseville, CA. Our Friends of the Library group
is sponsoring an science fiction author night on April 11, 2008. I
need one more author to make a trio.
From: "Patricia Altner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC:
Subject: Fwd: moon sf book
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:25:58 -0400
Begin forwarded message:
> I was
> wondering if you might be able to help me in my quest
> for a book that I read as a child in the 1950s but
> cannot remember the name. It deals wit
Subject: fwd: A query from offlist
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:08:08 -0500
Good day.
I hope some of you fine folk can help Melissa out with the
identification of her book.
Please contact her directly at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [sfnorthwest] Collection of Old Sci-Fi Pulp Mags for Sale
I hope it's okay to post this here...my fiance is cleaning hous
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/books/reviews/57110/black-space-by-adilifu-nama/
Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film
by Adilifu Nama
University of Texas Press
March 2008, 248 pages, $24.95
by May-lee Chai
Adilifu Nama admits that when he first told his friends he was going to
wr
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(fwd) Subject: Short story help finding
From: "Ed McDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I just finished the short story collection "Wastelands" edited by John
Joseph Adams and I was reminded of a story I read several years ago about a
virus that was sending the world
Subject: Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors at ALA Annual
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:31:16 -0500
Please pardon the cross posting
Science Fiction and Fantasy: Looking at Information Technology and the
Information Rights of the Individual
Speakers: Cory Doctorow, Tor Books; Eric Flint, Baen Books;
And now on a somewhat lighter note...
http://www.fullervoice.com/cluck/july/
Fwd: First reprinting of a Jules Verne book about America
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:00:21 -0400
Some of you may be interested in this first American publication of a
Jules Verne novel from 1899, hitherto only published simultaneously in
Britain and never reprinted in English since. (This first edi
From: Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cinematic Extraterrestrials (30 Oct - 2 Nov 2008 Chicago)
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 06:25:24 -0700
Hello, Everyone...
NEW SEPTEMBER 1ST DEADLINE FOR PAPER PROPOSALS!
You, your colleagues and/or your students might be interested in offering
your ideas to the sub
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From: "Deb Warner" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Looking for Story Title
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:20:04 -0700
I am trying to remember a title, either of a short story or novel I
read in the last year or so. This was triggered by discussing
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From: "Steven H Silver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Space Opera & Military SF
if I may make a plug, in November, my company, ISFiC Press, will be
releasing WHEN DIPLOMACY FAILS, an anthology of Military SF, which
isn't exactly Space
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From: "Jason Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CPF: SFRA 2009: Engineering the Future and Southern-Fried Science
Fiction and Fantasy
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:09:06 -0400
Hi all,
I'm the Science Fiction Research Association's PR
Thank you for the link. :-)
Brent
"md_moore42" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>[ http://www.juno-books.com/Juno_ghost_stories.pdf
>]http://www.juno-books.com/Juno_ghost_stories.pdf
>Classic ghost stories...including one by Zora Neale Hurston
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/fashion/07clubs.html?_r=1&partner=MOREOVERFEATURES&ei=5040
Fought Over Any Good Books Lately?
By JOANNE KAUFMAN
Published: December 5, 2008
JOCELYN BOWIE was thrilled by the invitation to join a book group. She had
just returned to her hometown, Bloomington, I
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Young+adult+writers+serious/1031402/story.html
Young adult writers get serious
By Eric Volmers
As a teacher, outdoor enthusiast and young adult novelist, it's fitting
that James Davidge would dream up a villain whose most dastardly deed is
getting youn
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From: "David Wright"
Subject: Looking for an Asimov story.
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:04:32 -0800
Hello there,
My colleagues and I in snowy Seattle are in need of your assistance. A
patron is looking for an old Isaac Asimov story which she described
t
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>http://www.multiracial.com
>http://www.multiracial.com/abolitionist/
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>> From: "David Wright"
>> Subject: Looking for an Asimov story.
>> D
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/books/05publ.html?_r=1&partner=MOREOVERFEATURES&ei=5040
Puttin Off the Ritz: The New Austerity in Publishing
By MOTOKO RICH
Published: January 4, 2009
For decades the New York publishing world promised a romantic life of
fancy lunches, sparkling parties, soph
"Chris Hayden" writes:
>(When you find it send it to Obama)
;-)
Happy New Year Chris.
Brent
>
>--- In [ mailto:SciFiNoir_Lit%40yahoogroups.com
>]scifinoir_...@yahoogroups.com, "brent wodehouse"
> wrote:
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From: "Jason Ellis"
Subject: Friendly Reminder--SFRA 2009 Proposals Due By April 1, Conference
June 11-14, Atlanta, GA
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:39:42 -0500
Greetings all,
I sincerely hope that each of you made a New Year's
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From: "Colleen R. Cahill"
Subject: Story question
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:46:13 -0500
We have a patron asking the following:
I graduated high school in 1963 and in my senior year literature text
there was a story (I am nearly sure) by Stephen V
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/01/acclaimed_write.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed3
Acclaimed writer John Updike dies at 76
January 27, 2009
By Mark Feeney, Globe Staff
John Updike, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, whose
jeweled prose and quicksilver intell
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/22/1000-novels-science-fiction-fantasy-part-one
'Long Voyage Back' by Luke Rhinehart, Delacorte, 1983
Brent
"stellbread" writes:
>About twenty years ago I read a story about a boat of castaways who
>were lost at sea as the U.S. and many other countries were annihilated
>via nuclear attack. As these people sailed to variuous lands, they
>we
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Received: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:55:21 PM EST
From: "Smith CTR Jeffrey C"
To: "Merry Rose"
Subject: [MR] Obscure Tolkein Book to be Released
"The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun," a thorough reworking in verse of old
Norse
epics that predates Tolkien's writing of "The Hob
http://jam.canoe.ca/Books/2009/04/10/9078416-ap.html
Vonnegut stories to be released
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK - A posthumous collection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut will
be released this November.
The collection, called "Look at the Birdie," contains 14 stories by the
author of "S
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From: "David Wright"
CC:
Subject: Searching for Telepathic Children novel (not Wyndham)
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:36:19 -0700
Hello SF-Litties
I have a book ID question that requires some additional help and
sleuthin
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090419/jg_ballard_090419/20090419?hub=TopStories
J.G. Ballard, author of 'Empire of the Sun,' dies at 78
The Associated Press
LONDON -- Writer J.G. Ballard, best known for the autobiographical novel
"Empire of the Sun," which drew on his chi
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/21/AR2009052104379.html?hpid=features1
U.S. Mission for Sci-Fi Writers: Imagine That
Novelists Plot the Future Of Homeland Security
By David Montgomery
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 22, 2009
The line between what's real and
http://jam.canoe.ca/Books/2010/03/30/13414016-cp.html
ebook prices going up soon
By Michael Oliveira, THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO - If you were thinking about buying an ebook, you may want to do
it now.
The prices of most new releases will soon be hiked by as much as 30 to 50
per cent.
A major
http://www.straight.com/article-301207/vancouver/q-jaron-lanier-author-you-are-not-gadget
Q & A: Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget
By Brian Lynch
Theres plenty of people raising warning flags about adverse cultural
effects of the Internet, but few of them have the credentials of Jar
2009 Nebula, Bradbury, and Andre Norton Award Nominees
* Short Story
* Hooves and the Hovel of Abdel Jameela, Saladin Ahmed
I Remember the Future, Michael A. Burstein
Non-Zero Probabilities, N. K. Jemisin
Spar, Kij Johnson
Going Deep, James Patrick Kelly
Bridesicle, Will McIntosh
* Novelett
I find this piece not unrelated to the scifi genre.
What are your thoughts?
Brent
http://www.guernicamag.com/features/1688/third_degree_burns/
Third Degree Burns
by Jay Baron Nicorvo, April 2010
Its not navel-gazing MFA graduates who are killing
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118021311.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
Jupiter 9 'Travels' to sci fi
Indie to develop tome with Gotham Group
By DAVE MCNARY
Harry Kloor's Jupiter 9 Prods. is developing a feature version of Robert
Heinlein's "Have Space Suit, Will Travel" with Gotham Group's Ellen
[
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cover-opensky-20100801,0,4438043.story
]http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cover-opensky-20100801,0,4438043.story
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