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Blog for a Best Of Continues!

Blog for a ..., contests, Friday, December 11th, 2009

Keep adding your mentions of the best fantasy related books, movies, television, stories, magazines, writers and anything else both fantasy-ish and highly recommended!

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Blog for a Best Of!

Blog for a ..., contests, Friday, December 4th, 2009

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.

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Blog for a Punk

Blog for a ..., contests, Friday, November 13th, 2009

Over on Jeff VanderMeer’s blog, guest blogger Caren Gussoff asks about the next movement to come along and get the word “punk” stuck on the end.

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Blog For A Break

Blog for a ..., contests, Monday, October 26th, 2009

This Friday we’re asking – what are the online publications (whether fantasy, spec-fic, or more general) that you read and why?

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Blog for a Bombshell

Blog for a ..., contests, Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Fantasy Magazine asks its reader who their favorite urban fantasy writers are and why. Who are -you- reading lately?

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Blog for a Pod

Blog for a ..., contests, Friday, August 14th, 2009

Podcasting is upon us, and it doesn’t seem to be just a passing phase. Stern classicists may turn up their noses, but long morning commutes, hectic multi-tasking schedules, and dwindling free-time have all hindered a once captive, reading audience. Is audio “reading” the way of the future?

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Blog for a Cyborg

Blog for a ..., contests, Friday, May 22nd, 2009

This week, we revisit the borgs with Blog for a Cyborg. Among the below cyborgs (or add one of your own picks), which is your favorite and why?

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Blog for a Magic Reviser

Blog for a ..., Friday, May 15th, 2009

This week, in Alison Campbell-Wise’s “Revisionist History,” a young married couple find a magic marker that can rewrite their history. If you could choose one mundane household item to be your magic reviser, which item would you choose and how would you use it?

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Blog For a Borg (How Could We Not Talk About Star Trek?)

Blog for a ..., Friday, May 8th, 2009

We’ve run our picks from the original series, and we’ve got more best/more lists for ST: Next Generation, Deepspace Nine, Voyager, and whatever the one is that I’m missing coming up, along with other interesting Star Trek content, including a column about slash that should stir some controversy. Let the Trekkian revels begin!

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Blog For A Brass Button

Blog for a ..., Friday, May 1st, 2009

This week, we’re opening that up halfway and saying, “What do you hate — as well as love — about steampunk?” What are the books that should or shouldn’t be included in the genre, and what is it with all the clockwork gears, after all? Do we need steampunk laptops? Clocks? Corsets?

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