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Links & News & Interviews & Cats

Links & News & Interviews & Cats

Time magazine, which manages to get so much wrong so much of the time, oddly is very accurate and interesting on the subject of LOLcats. [via The Beat]

Not science fiction, but only because it didn’t happen: the British military is denying sending giant, man-eating badgers to terrify the citizen of the Iraqi city of Basra.

The New York Times’s PaperCuts blog looks at the cover of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

David Louis Edelman, at DeepGenre, ponders The End of Science Fiction.

Paranormal romance writer Sherrilyn Kenyon is now listed in Cambridge Who’s Who, and sent out a press release to tout that.

The Readercon brain trust compiled the semi-official canon of Slipstream writing. Great! Now we can go back to arguing about what “slipstream” actually means…

If you happen to be in Luxembourg (and I can’t tell you how often I’ve found myself in Luxembourg without thinking about it), you might want to pop your head into the Tomorrow Now exhibition at the Mudam Luxembuorg, which “explores the relationship between design and science fiction.”

I’d expected something really weird from the Montgomery Advertiser’s reference to “Faulkner’s Narnia” — just think about that for a moment, if you will – but it turns out that Faulkner University is putting on a stage adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe as Narnia. Still, the idea of a Prince Caspian/As I Lay Dying mash-up is still out there for the taking…

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Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Reviews

Science Fiction/Fantasy Book Reviews

SF Signal reviews the novelization of the Transfomers movie by Alan Dean Foster.

Fantasy Book Critic reviews The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks.

Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist shamelessly plugs Tad Williams’s Otherland series.

Strange Horizons continues reviewing John Crowley’s AEgypt novels this week with a look at the second book, Love & Sleep.

Book Fetish covers Marjorie M. Liu’s paranormal romance Soul Song.

Clare Light does quick reviews of Laurie J. Marks’s Water Logic and Walter Mosley’s 47.

Interzone reviews Marianne de Pierres’s new space opera Dark Light.

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Reviews: Graphic Novels and SF/Fantasy

Reviews: Graphic Novels and SF/Fantasy

Since the name of the site is ComicMix, the comics reviews come first. After the break, some crunchy links to SF/Fantasy book reviews, including one for Mike Carey’s novel The Devil You Know.

And, speaking of Carey, here’s a review from Blogcritics for Re-Gifters, by Mike Carey and Sonny Liew.

Blogcritics also reviews Outsiders: The Good Fight by Judd Winick, Matthew Clark, and Art Thibert.

Blogcritics also also reviews Eric Wright’s My Dead Girlfriend, Volume One.

Dana Stevenson (of Comic Fodder) reviews this week’s Marvel Comics.

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Science Fiction/Fantasy News & Links

Science Fiction/Fantasy News & Links

Mark Evanier shows off the cover to his upcoming book Kirby: King of Comics, and explains what this book is (a big, heavily-illustrated look at Jack Kirby’s comics work) and what his next book will be (a much longer, text-heavy biography of Kirby).

Columnist Alex Stein, in the Guardian, likes to argue with a friend about the use and importance of science fiction. (He’s on the side of the angels) Sadly, Stein seems to be content to argue that there’s some good stuff out there amid the dreck, rather than calling the friend on his category error – the unnamed friend stacks the deck by using the new Transformers movie as the SF exemplar and “some new French slow-burner about adultery” as his example of “real life.” The equivalents of a good serious “real life” movie are movies like Gattaca, or 2001, or Blade Runner; if you want a “mainstream” comparison movie on the same level as Transformers, you’ll have to dig up something like Monster-In-Law. Defenders of SF need to point out that there’s just as much “real life” dreck as fantastic dreck – and our dreck at least has cool pictures to go with the lousy plots.

The Baltimore Sun reports on an exhibition of Star Wars paraphernalia at Geppi’s Entertainment Museum in Baltimore. The materials are all from the collection of Thomas Atkinson, who runs the Star Toys Museum.

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Science Fiction/Fantasy Interviews, June 28th

Science Fiction/Fantasy Interviews, June 28th

Fantasy Book Critic interviews Austin Grossman, author of the swell new superhero novel Soon I Will Be Invincible.

Locus Online has posted excerpts from their interview with Nalo Hopkinson, author of The New Moon’s Arms, from the June issue of the print magazine.

Locus Online has similarly posted excerpts from the interview with Holly Phillips, also from the June issue.

CNN recently talked to Michael Chabon about his new alternate history novel, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, in which the Jewish homeland formed after WW II was in the Alaska panhandle.

SciFi Wire chats with Tim Pratt, author of the Asimov’s Readers’ Award-winning (and Hugo Award nominated) story “Impossible Dreams.”

Stage Noise has a podcast-interview with SF novelist Sean Williams and then (separately) with Jeff Wayne, creator of a War of the Worlds musical. [via Talking Squid]

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