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Donald Beeler 1937-2021
Firstly Get Vaccinated ( Read more... ) -
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1. Are you an Essential Worker? No, I'm working being retired real soon now ( Read more... ) -
Should I stay or should I go now?
Looks like many are leaving livejournal.
I am just setting up on dreamwidth with the same user name.
I am a permanent user and don't have much here lately so I am not sure I will delete.
What are you doing?
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Meme Quiz Time!
What was your first screen name ( Read more... ) -
Where I stayed overnight meme
Many fewer than in my 1990's peak ( Read more... ) -
A wild quiz appears! Via Gridlore!
1. Are you named after someone? After my grandfather in part
2. When is the last time you cried? Cannot remember
3. Do you like your handwriting? Its workable
4. What is your favorite lunch meat? Roast beef.
5. Do you have kids? No
7. Do you use sarcasm? Not well
8. Do you still have your tonsils? Yes.
9. Would you bungee jump? Not at this point ( Read more... ) -
David G. Hartwell, July 10, 1941 - January 19, 2016.
Originally posted by kylecassidy at David G. Hartwell, July 10, 1941 - January 19, 2016.
I went to Worldcon in 2009 partly to sell a book I was working on, Where I Write: Fantasy & Science Fiction Writers in Their Creative Spaces and the timing couldn't have been better. My website had gone viral, getting more than two million hits a day, Wired Magazine had ( Read more... ) -
David Geddes Hartwell, 1941-2016
I first encountered David G. Hartwell at worldcons most likely in Winnipeg in 1994 where I saw him hosting the TOR party in an aloha shirt or a kimono leading the party guests in a rendition of Teen Angel.
David was one of the elder statesmen of science fiction, founding the World Fantasy Convention, starting the New York Review of Science Fiction ( Read more... ) -
Bakka Phoenix the Toronto SF book store's TOP SELLERS IN 2015 which ones have you read
Originally posted by cszego at OUR TOP SELLERS IN 2015
It's always fun to look back at which titles sold best over the course of the year. Here they are, by format (an * means 'Canadian author').
Mass Market
1. Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison
2. Rendezvous With Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
3. Foxglove Summer, Ben Aaronovitch
4. Midnight Riot, Ben Aaronovitch ( Read more... )
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