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• ‘Terra Nova’ Series Premiere Review & Discussion

  Sep 26 2011, 8:47 PM EDT (view original item)

  Fox's long, long awaited sci-fi epic lands on the schedule tonight. Have years of production and tens of millions of dollars in development paid off? Read our 'Terra Nova' review to find out.

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• Knocking on Heaven's Door

  Sep 26 2011, 11:46 AM EDT (view original item)

  Dwayne Day interviews author Michael Cassutt about his new book, a science fiction novel about human expeditions to a near Earth object that turns out to be something quite different.

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• Novelists Predict Future With Eerie Accuracy

  Sep 3 2011, 6:29 PM EDT (view original item)

  A number of recent books foresee futures that seem more than plausible as the nation’s ambient level of weirdness rises.

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• The art of Steampunk

  Aug 10 2011, 12:19 AM EDT (view original item)

  It’s not every day that you meet an inventor of time machines. Tom Gawron of Indian Wells Drive is such an inventor. In the last four years, the former award-winning architect has become immersed in Steampunk, a subculture that combines 19th-century culture with futuristic technology.

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• Sci-fi prophet wraps high-tech trilogy

  Jul 31 2011, 2:00 AM EDT (view original item)

  "When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart."

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• Tête-bêche books head back

  Jul 28 2011, 8:54 PM EDT (view original item)

  Science fiction publishing is once again welcoming this eccentric format into its fold Like wedges, blue eyeshadow and harem pants, the tête-bêche is making one of its periodic returns to favour. But you won't see it on the catwalks, because tête-bêche is one of the quirkier paperback fashions that has a resurgence every couple of decades. Tête-bêche –...

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• Steampunk Film Festival, 'True Grit' in Irving Park, Parkrose UMC rummage sale & more weekend events: Northeast ...

  Jul 22 2011, 11:20 AM EDT (view original item)

  Happenings this weekend in Northeast Portland.

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• Learn to Forgive Yourself in a Parallel Universe

  Jul 21 2011, 6:18 PM EDT (view original item)

  Let me be clear: Another Earth , opening July 22, is not a science-fiction film, despite its premise of the discovery of a planet just like our own. [More]

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• Science fiction reflects the extremes of human belief | Liz Williams

  Jul 21 2011, 4:58 PM EDT (view original item)

  It is in the extreme that we learn about the consequences – both positive and negative – of faith in our own day The question: What can science fiction tell us about God? Speculative fiction (SF) is the ideal laboratory for social experimentation without direct consequence (usually). It's a literature whose boundaries lie only at the limits of the human imagination, although it is...

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• Readercon: Science fiction as it was born

  Jul 19 2011, 12:10 PM EDT (view original item)

  At Readercon science fiction fans come to celebrate the genre in its original form

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• New Sci-Fi Anthology Offers Quest for Self-Truth and Redemption

  Jul 4 2011, 3:10 AM EDT (view original item)

  Roland Allnach’s new speculative science fiction anthology, “Remnant,” provides an other-worldy atmosphere where characters explore their own truths and moral centers in their quests for meaning, a sense of belonging, inner peace, and redemption. ...

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• New Sci-Fi Anthology Offers Quest for Self-Truth and Redemption

  Jul 4 2011, 3:06 AM EDT (view original item)

  Roland Allnach’s new speculative science fiction anthology, “Remnant,” provides an other-worldy atmosphere where characters explore their own truths and moral centers in their quests for meaning, a sense of belonging, inner peace, and redemption. (PRWeb July 04, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/7/prweb8616719.htm

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• Inside the minds of the young Brontës

  Jun 9 2011, 7:10 PM EDT (view original item)

  They might be known for their gothic romances, but the Brontë sisters also created some of the earliest examples of science fiction. When Charlotte, Emily, Anne and their brother Branwell were as young as 10, they wrote stories set in detailed, imaginary worlds. Now these little-known fantasy stories are being exhibited in the British Library's first sci-fi exhibition.

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• A wider fictional world

  May 15 2011, 8:24 AM EDT (view original item)

  From Lewis Carroll to Jeff Noon and Neil Gaiman, the novelist picks the best novels where reality 'gets just a little bit bendy' Sam Leith was, until recently, literary editor of the Daily Telegraph. He now writes for many leading publications including the Guardian and the Evening Standard. After two acclaimed non-fiction books, Dead Pets, and Sod's Law, he has just published his...

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• Heroes in hoodies

  May 10 2011, 8:13 PM EDT (view original item)

  A childhood love of horror films and a real life violent encounter led comedian Joe Cornish to write a movie about marauding hairy aliens and tough teens. He tells TARA BRADYabout getting down with the kids and how his film is a darker, scarier ‘ET’

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• Neil Gaiman, Matt Dean, and the assault on the Legacy Amendment | Max About Town

  May 9 2011, 11:27 AM EDT (view original item)

  REUTERS/Richard Clement British author Neil Gaiman By far the most awful combination of things is the mixing of arts and politics. And I don't mean politicians who like the arts. All politicians like the arts, to some extent. There may be an exception somewhere. I suppose there might be a junior senator from someplace who can't see a painting without flying into a rage, or see a book of...

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• Things falling apart: Local graphic novel 'Death-Day'; Michael Scott leaves 'Office' | Max About Town

  Apr 26 2011, 11:15 AM EDT (view original item)

  MinnPost photo by Max Sparber A detail from "Death-Day: Part One" by Samuel Hiti It's been a long time since I've read a graphic novel like " Death-Day: Part One " by local artist Samuel Hiti , and I've never read one that's just like it. It's a bit like an old EC war comic book, such as "Frontline Combat," in that it follows a small detachment of...

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• Better Living Through Plastic Explosives, by Zsuzsi Gartner

  Apr 15 2011, 12:29 PM EDT (view original item)

  Laura Penny reviews Better Living Through Plastic Explosives, by Zsuzsi Gartner

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• Joy to the honeybees

  Apr 15 2011, 3:24 AM EDT (view original item)

  I am so stoked about the honeybees making a comeback. I had thought - a lot of people had thought - that the scourge of colony collapse was so powerful and mysterious that it might never be solved. And indeed I was...

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• Navigating The Maze That Makes Kit Reed Tick

  Apr 14 2011, 6:25 PM EDT (view original item)

  'Transgenred' Writer Carves Out Niche In Speculative Fiction Reading a short story by Kit Reed is like entering a labyrinth. You follow what appears to be a familiar path, then find yourself deep in unknown, often disorienting territory, at last emerging somewhere you never expected.

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