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• I think Laura said it best:
  
  Hello Feb 1! Can I pretend that this is the start of 2010 and that January didn’t happen?
  
  And so I shall leave it at that.

• Amazon and McMillan publishing had a bit of a tiff over the weekend. While this has inspired much commentary, I ( Read more... )

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Over the next couple of weeks, I will be putting up the rather self-explanatory series of Things I Really Meant To Post In 2009 But Didn’t. These Things are (at least to me) still notable, informative, or amusing enough to be worth sharing months after they ( Read more... )

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I’ve held back from discussing politics in this space, but events surrounding the handling of the novel H1N1 vacc>>>  [ WARNING ::: DATABASE ERROR ::: CONTENT OVERRIDE ::: SOURCE: EXTERNAL ] <<<


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First, it must be noted that Playing for Keeps hit #16 overall in books on Amazon yesterday. Congratulations Mur!

Dragon*Con is almost upon us. This year, I have the pleasure of being a guest on the science track, as well as participating in podcasting track events ( Read more... )

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Playing for Keeps, Mur Lafferty’s brilliant debut novel that sets the entire superhero genre on its ear, goes on sale tomorrow on Amazon. Go buy it then. It may cure your maladies, purify your genes, or give you honest-to-goodness superpowers. Or, failing that, it’ ( Read more... )

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It would be remiss of me not to point out that the 2008 Hugo Awards were given out this past weekend at Denvention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention. Here the results, from the official site:

• Novel: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon ( ( Read more... )

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…in which I will point to how Brave Men Run did on its Amazon release day, and tell you of “Double Trouble” tomorrow.

Matthew posted his two part recap, here and here, of how Brave Men Run did on Amazon on it’s release date. Bottom line: it hit #53 in “Books” ( Read more... )

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You’ve heard me talk about Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps in this space before. What I haven’t mentioned yet is that it has a publisher in Swarm Press, and a release date:


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