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Cairo
Protestors inexplicably objecting to dictatorship, torture chambers, and poverty. Here in America, of course, most protests are in favor of these things. No wonder the US sees Egypt as a key ally!
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From The Christian Science Monitor:The State of the Union address is expected to lay out five ‘pillars’ for ‘winning the future’ – education, infrastructure, innovation, deficit reduction, and reform...
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The Future of Publishing!
That was the topic of the latest SF Signal MindMeld. A representative sentiment (from me): The major houses are pigs and some of them are going to die. We should gleefully bathe in their blood and...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011 – Charlie Louvin, once one-half of the Louvin Brothers with a longstanding solo career on his own, passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Louvin was 83.
View ArticleAttention gays and supergays: want to make a little money?
Steve tells me he has a few pages left to fill. That's the interesting thing about being an editor—even when one is swamped with submissions, the quality material is so hard to find that one often...
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Starve Better is up for pre-order!
Remember that little book on writing I was doing? That one that was originally going to be called The Nickronomicon? Well, it's here:If you pre-order from the publisher, your book will ship signed and...
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And also, just in time for...uh, Lent
This is not the final cover for the Greek Move Under Ground, but it's close. The book will hit the five remaining stores not already firebombed in Greece in mid-March:I bet you didn't know Jack Kerouac...
View ArticleFreedom for the Middle East!
Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Gabon—rage is boiling over onto the streets, and some of these nations are American allies. Egypt, for example, gets 1.3 billion dollars a year in military aid, second only to...
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Imperialism? Isn't that what England used to do in Shakespeare times?
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The dean appeared at his window and demanded that the students disperse and return to their studies or he would ask the police to enter the college. The devastating response came in the form of a chair...
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Writer Melissa Mia Hall dies of a heart attack, partially due to her reluctance to seek medical treatment while uninsured.Read "The Happy Family" by Melissa Mia Hall and Douglas Winter.DJ Kool Herc ,...
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Hey kids, stories!
Haunted Legends won the Black Quill Award (Editor's Choice) for best anthology. I wonder if the prize is an actual black quill. Or a gif of the same!Also, the book is now on the long list for the...
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Hey, a press release. There's some fun reading...
Dark Horse writes, in part:Supernatural Noir is an anthology of original tales of the dark fantastic from twenty modern masters of suspense, including Brian Evenson, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlín R....
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I'll take what it's not doing here in California for $500, Alex.
What is...snowing?HA HA!Jeallloooouus?Yeah, you're jealous.
View ArticleTime to fight
People following the Egypt news should keep in mind that the "pro"-Mubarak "forces", as they've been described, are indeed forces—primarily police forces. Hoods are naturally attracted to law...
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The worst short story of all time.Apparently it originally appeared in a book called Horse Fantastic. Here's how awful the story is—no horse!
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Sensation Sneak Peek
Regular clicker-throughers may have read a whole chapter of Sensation two years ago, but for those who don't click through, here's a peek at the book, specifically page 111:
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Egypt's new prime minister apologized repeatedly Thursday for the previous day's "catastrophe" in Cairo, blaming infiltrators and a "complete disappearance" of police for the human toll.See, they...
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