This week’s Snapshots will, review by review, reduce into nothingness like that alien code in Independence Day. However rather than heralding impending space ray doom (unless you are a golden retriever) this will in fact just save me a bit of time. Or will it?
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“Believe” doesn’t address the larger story arc of the series much. This is a personal story episode. There is “at home” drama with Sponsor and Daughter, personal drama between Benford and Sponsor, and finally, more exploration of the phone call Demetri received about the date of his murder
This week’s links include the implications of evil avatars, neuromarketing, an Age of Conan MMORPG giveaway, paper castles, Bioshock brought to life, space marines, and virtual gaming conventions.
What’s the best fantasy, whether in the form of short story, book, movie, TV show, play or some other fantastic configuration? Two names will be chosen from the comments to receive a copy of Eoin Colfer’s And Another Thing, the sixth installment of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and Superman: The Complete Animated Serieson DVD.
Obviously number theory and mathematics in general plays a large role in the construction of “Reading by Numbers.” What was your relationship with number theory before writing this piece? Were you familiar with the discipline or did you need to do research?
For the month of December, FM will be presenting in four segments, all the honorable mentions listed in The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Rich Horton, which is forthcoming in December from Prime Books.
Night’s Master is one Tanith Lee’s finest, and she is one of fantasy’s finest writers. Norilana Books deserves credit for reissuing this hard-to-find title in lovely new hardcover and trade paperback editions.
In order to publish Polyphony 7, Wheatland Press must receive 225 paid pre-orders via the web site (www.wheatlandpress.com) by 1 March 2010. If the pre-order quantities cannot be met, Polyphony will cease publication. It’s that simple.
Today is Free-e-day, which its participants bill as the biggest ever cultural electronic giveaway and celebration of the independent creative spirit. Free-e-day is for every singer, writer, artist, artisan, photographer, film-maker, whatever who believes that the most important part of culture is the fans. And it’s for everyone who loves culture and wants to experience [...]
Kimberly Unger reviews “Stay” for the iPhone. It’s not as easy as it looks.
