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I Wish Guinan Was a Time Lord: IDW’S Star Trek: TNG/Doctor Who Assimilation2 #4
I’ve always loved the way Guinan was portrayed in the early days of The Next Generation. Was she a special creature with super powers? A shape-shifter? Did she have power rivaling that of Q? Or maybe...
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Reopening The X-Files: “Christmas Carol”/“Emily”
Season 5, Episodes 6 and 7: “Christmas Carol”/“Emily”Original Airdates: December 7 and December 14, 1997.Was there ever a character so abused by her writers as Dana Scully? In tribute to the...
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Malazan Begins Anew: A Non-Spoiler Review of Forge of Darkness
My personal experience with prequels has been that too often they have a going-through-the-motions feel to them, as if the author is mechanically connecting the dots, reverse-engineering the novel from...
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Rothfuss Re-read Speculative Summary 13: The Way He Knew His Own Hands
My excessively detailed reread of Patrick Rothfuss’s Kingkiller Chronicles is over, but the speculation goes on. I’m going to post the occasional speculative summary of cool things posted since last...
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Merge/Disciple (Excerpt)
We have excerpts from Walter Mosley's upcoming novel: Merge/Disciple, two works contained in in one volume. It's out on October 2:Merge: Releigh Redman loved Nicci Charbon until she left him...
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Pigs! And! More Communists! Freddy and the Flying Saucer Plans
“Kind of hard to tell where patriotism stops and dishonesty begins,” said the pig.—Freddy and the Flying Saucer PlansAlthough the previous book in the series, Freddy and Simon the Dictator, had...
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Like a Meaningful Dream: Crackpot Palace by Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford is one of our finest short story writers, not just in the genre, but in all of fiction. It’s no surprise then that his latest collection, Crackpot Palace, is a brilliant collection of...
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This Case is Gonna Kill Me Sweepstakes!
The excerpt was killer (haha), and now we've got five copies of This Case is Gonna Kill Me by Phillipa Bornikova to give to five lucky winners!Check below for the rules:[Read more]Read the full article
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Fiction Affliction: September Releases in Urban Fantasy
We’ll ignore the fact that half of them are Young Adult titles (are there really that many kids reading these books, and shouldn’t they be doing homework?) September is still fruitful pickings for...
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FREE: Neil Gaiman. Hair Foppish But Otherwise in Good Condition
It turns out that a rare Neil Gaiman was left out amongst various sundry the other day. Had we only been in the area, we would have been happy to fetch the Neil Gaiman and bring him to a good home. We...
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Morning Roundup: The Godzilla Family Portrait
There's a great collection of behind-the-scenes photos over on Blastr and io9 from Toho studios. This family photo is out favorite, it even has the Son of Godzilla in it!Your offsite link round ups are...
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Today’s the Last Blue Moon Before the Future Gets Here
Bad news for romantics: now you won't have two full moons a month to read Klingon poetry to your sweetheart. (At least not until July 2015, and by then everything's going to be hovering so anything...
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Amy Still Needs Her Raggedy Man: Pond Life Minisode 5
In this final installement of the Doctor Who seaon 7 prequel Pond Life, something very, very sad looks to be happening. Do not watch if you don't want to be spoiled a little bit on the new episodes!...
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Get Your Space Drug Fix: Narcotics in Science Fiction & Fantasy
The season finale of the immensely popular Breaking Bad is upon us, and we can't stop thinking about seriously unstable bald men Heisenberg, Blue Sky, and all the crime-fueled craziness that has driven...
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Jane Sweepstakes!
The excerpt is up, your interest is peaked, and let's be honest — you need more Tarzan in your life. So we've got twenty copies of Jane: The Woman Who Loved Tarzan to give out to twenty of you! Comment...
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Moffat’s Women: Liz X
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these; eight months, in fact. However, in light of my successful panel at this year’s Geek Girl Con — Moffat’s Women: Companions, Travelers, Gender Roles and...
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Legion (Excerpt)
Enjoy this excerpt from Brandon Sanderson's novella Legion, out today from Subterranean Press.Stephen Leeds, AKA “Legion,” is a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of...
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Malazan Re-read of the Fallen: Reaper’s Gale, Chapter Ten
Welcome to the Malazan Re-read of the Fallen! Every post will start off with a summary of events, followed by reaction and commentary by your hosts Bill and Amanda (with Amanda, new to the series,...
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A Read of Ice and Fire: Spoiler Free-For-All!
Hi all! We're sorry to say that this week's post has been held up due to all the hurricane-related craziness going on New Orleans: last we heard, Leigh had just gotten her power back on, but no...
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and the Science of Scale
As a parent, I feel it my duty to introduce my children to the classics of science fiction and fantasy. Arguably, some of the things we watch and read together are more classic than others, but all...
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