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dispatches from TJICistan (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html The Grand List Of Console Role Playing Game Cliches In any futuristic setting, the standard uniform for female soldiers and special agents will include a miniskirt and thigh-high stockings. The standard uniform for all male characters, military or not, will include an extraordinarily silly and enormous hat. Jack Vance was there first!
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Subterranean Press (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
A number of recent SubPress releases are selling very well, and expected to go out of print soon, including: – The Best of Lucius Shepard (Lucius Shepard): Fewer than 300 trade copies remain, with the limited edition sold out prepublication – Worlds of Weber (David Weber): Fewer than 400 of the 2000 copies printed remain, with several [...]
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Subterranean Press (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
It’s a bit like flights lining up for runways around here the past few weeks, with titles already in hand and ready to ship, and en route to our offices. Here’s a brief recap of the flight plan: Kull: Exile of Atlantis (Robert E. Howard): We’ve just finished shipping roughly 90% of the indiviudal orders (regular [...]
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Subterranean Press (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
We’ve just received word from our supplier that the slipcases for Robert E. Howard’s Kull: Exile of Atlantis and The Jack Vance Reader have shipped and are en route to our offices. With a little luck, we’ll begin shipping books by the end of next week. We will, of course, keep everyone posted on our [...]
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FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Harry Harrison, creator of The Stainless Steel Rat and author of the novel that inspired the movie Soylent Green, will be honoured as the next Damon Knight Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America during the 2009 Nebula Awards Weekend in Los Angeles, California. The selection of Harrison was announced by [...]
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The Kindle Reader (Free subscription) | 31/05/2008
To publicize their soon-to-be launched new social website for fans of science fiction and fantasy, Tor Books is giving away one e-book a week. This week's offering, A Shadow in Summer, by Daniel Abraham is available for free by registering at Tor.com. Once you register, you will receive by return e-mail a link to download the book. A Shadow in Summer is also available in a paperback edition
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skullring.org (Free subscription) | 29/11/2007
Reminiscent of the late Jack Vance's DYING EARTH tales, Matthew Hughes' THE COMMONS is a tale of baroque fantasy set in the very, very far future of planet earth. The author is a great stylist; his prose is elegant and well constructed, illumed by a sense of droll humor that works well in this tale of cosmic manipulation and subtle chicanery. The Society for Historical Inquiry is a group of scholars...
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skullring.org (Free subscription) | 26/10/2007
Fresh from the press release files: October 23, 2007 – Sci-Fi master Matthew Hughes, the heir apparent to Jack Vance according to Booklist, returns with his latest novel, The Commons. The book is published by Robert J. Sawyer Books, a line of literate, philosophically rich science-fiction novels edited by Sawyer himself, Canada’s dean of SF. The Commons is the story of Guth Bandar, an academic at...
