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Monday, December 21, 2015

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Can you have a sequel that is also a reboot?

Posted by Jo Lindsay Walton at 6:36 PM

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Release of A Traveller in Time – The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller (2023) edited by Nina Allan - I have, in my sweaty little palms, my contributor copy of A Traveller in Time – The Critical Practice of Maureen Kincaid Speller, edited by Nina Allan. The...
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Juliana Rew

Note from the Editor: Rhapsody of the Spheres - Greetings, speculative fiction fans! My company, Third Flatiron Publishing, has released its summer-fall collection, *Rhapsody of the Spheres*, a co...
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Kate Elliott

The site is now ALSO kateelliott.com (welcome!) - The kateelliott.com URL now redirects to this site (I Make Up Worlds).* I have not yet transferred any information over to this site yet from the kateellio...
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Ethan Robinson

- One of the more peculiar changes Bradbury made when he expanded his novella "The Fireman" into *Fahrenheit 451* was to have Montag choose Ecclesiastes as h...
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8 months ago
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On a Dark Desert Highway from Comic-Con - My day at San Diego Comic-Con was cool, but I want to talk about the crazy thing my daughter Anyaugo and I did that night. I didn’t like our hotel, so af...
8 months ago
June Martin

LOVE/AGGRESSION in early 2024 - My novel of queer community conflict, surreal interior decor, and the terrifying power of total agency or total passivity, is coming out with tRaum Books
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Clifton Cachagua

this latest war - last night, to you, for you, i think i referenced a poet on taffeta, & we argued our way into existence. or we argued on mercy, or god, or elegies. or forg...
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Rose Lemberg

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Dave Hutchison

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Martin McGrath

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Juliana Rew

Twelve All in Dread collection - My new collection of fantasy short stories from Sophont Press, Twelve All in Dread, is now available in ebook for preorder at amazon.com, with paperback...
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Review: Collective Gravities by Chloe N. Clark - In July 2021 I reviewed Chloe N. Clark’s Collective Gravities. I’d come across her short fiction here and there across the web, and I’d always been pleasan...
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Mazi Nwonwu

Misleading Videos Fuel Claims of Igbo Disenfranchisement - Inec office, Igbede, Ojo LGA, Lagos State Viral videos suggesting Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec) is discriminating against people from...
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L.S. Johnson

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Sophie E Tallis

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Maureen K. Speller

Review: Mothlight by Adam Scovell - At the heart of Adam Scovell’s Mothlight (2019) lies a mystery. Why did Phyllis Ewans hate Billie, her sister, so very much? To the extent that when the el...
2 years ago
Dolly Garland

Lost Gods author interview: Anna Smith Spark - I wanted to follow up on our gorgeous Lost Gods anthology, a book of SFF short stories, by interviewing some of the authors (okay, whoever was willing). I ...
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Pippa Jay

How Many Years Published? #scifi #paranormal #romance - While I generally mark my publishing anniversary as the 7th May 2012 - being the release date of my debit novel *Keir* with Lyrical Press - it's not str...
2 years ago
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3 years ago
Madeline Ashby

Overt Intelligence: How do I manage a remote writers’ room? - Note: I received this question via the contact form above. If you have questions that you’d like addressed here, post them there! I reserve the right not...
3 years ago
Rantalica

ESFS Awards 2020 - All the winners of tonight’s European Science Fiction Awards are great, but I think this is all I want to put up here tonight, to celebrate the one Croatia...
3 years ago
The 1709 Blog

2019 - THE COPYRIGHT YEAR - *DEAR FRIENDS: The bloggers here at the 1709 Blog have decided that this will be our very last post. We have had great fun blogging through a decade, in s...
4 years ago
Naomi Foyle

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4 years ago
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Pandora 360 App - I’m very pleased to announce that the Pandora 360 Android app is finally available to the public on Google Play and Amazon Appstore! The creation of this a...
5 years ago
Susan Gray

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Alix E. Harrow

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5 years ago
From Couch to Moon

Monster Portraits (2018) by Del and Sofia Samatar - “How deformed can something get and still be a story?” Oh, Sofia, you have my heart when you say things like that. Many, many apologies to Rose Metal Press...
5 years ago
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Website and Mailing List - On the off-chance that anyone has some sorta automated doohickey still keeping an eye out for posts on this blog that's become rather tumbleweed-strewn, to...
5 years ago
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No. 252 Rue M. le Prince - The following story first appeared in architect and author Ralph Adams Cram’s 1895 collection Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories. When in M...
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Heaven Blogs: The End of Rehearsals - This is technically my day off – my last one until September. After two weeks of rehearsal and months of preparation, Heaven Burns is very nearly ready to ...
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Comicpalooza 2018 - Memorial Day weekend is upon us, which means it's time for Comicpalooza! I'll be in Houston this weekend--what about you? I'll be taking part in the litera...
5 years ago
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We Who Are About To…, Joanna Russ - We Who Are About To…, Joanna Russ (1975) Review by Bart After finishing a book, I usually read up on other reviews and stuff before starting my own. There’...
5 years ago
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Pornokitsch: The Exit Interview - We felt that, if other people weren’t going to take the things we love seriously, then it was up to us to do it.
6 years ago
Will Ellwood

44 Fields - My short story 44 Fields is now available to read at Big Echo. You can read it here. If you are interested I have collected a few thoughts here: The openin...
6 years ago
io9

We May Eventually Find Out How the Battle of New York Changed Peter Parker - The Battle of New York at the end of *The Avengers* is a crucial moment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s the moment the whole world changed. And wh...
6 years ago
Joanna Walsh

New Website! - As you might have noticed, I haven't posted anything for a year. I have a new website, with up-to-date info etc, here.
6 years ago
Cecily Kane

Us Versus Them, or What Happens When SF Fandom Can’t See Past Its Own Blinders - Recap: a few days ago, Slate published an article by Laura Miller with a few good points and much more numerous flaws. SF/F writer Jason Sanford posted a r...
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Roz Kaveney

Had to be a London poem - LONDON Night in a city that has licked its wounds Two thousand years. And curls around its kits Feeding and grooming heroes cowards wits Lovers and killers....
7 years ago
Lucy Kemnitzer

The fifth column, whether it knows it or not - There's some really strange posts that get retweeted over and over on Twitter. It's kind of nauseating to watch. I'm going to try to address them all here ...
7 years ago
Peter Sutton

This is the end - As I now have a website, and am able to blog there, I feel that having a separate blog is no longer needed and so I'm closing this one. I'll still be revie...
7 years ago
Strange Horizons Reviews

The Regional Office is Under Attack! by Manuel Gonzales - (Spoiler: middle managers don’t fare well in a showdown between super-powered assassins.)
7 years ago
Britny Brooks

10 famous authors on their favorite books - This is your blog post. Blogs are a great way to connect with your audience and keep them coming back. They can also be a great way to position yourself as...
7 years ago
Sofia Samatar

when the sick rule the world - Dodie Bellamy's essays have a muscular force. They are *all muscle*, seamless, shimmering. A Dodie essay is constructed like a snake. A Dodie essay requir...
7 years ago
Juliette Wade

Moving to a new site - visit Dive into Worldbuilding, the Blog! - New Blog Address: http://dive-into-worldbuilding.blogspot.com/ Friends, I've now been running Dive into Worldbuilding as a show for five years (!), and f...
7 years ago
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JULY 31-AUGUST 4 - CATAMARAN WRITING CONFERENCE Robert Louis Stevenson School Pebble Beach, Calif Fiction workshop daily 9:30-12:30 To register: http://catamaranliteraryreade...
7 years ago
Crystal Huff

International Reading - I’m often asked, recently, what people should be reading that’s non-American or non-British in SFF. Broad topic! Here are some I’ve loved, though. Most of ...
7 years ago
Kat Howard

Moving house - This is just to let you know that I now have a new website: http://www.kathowardbooks.com/ This blog will stay here, but will no longer be updated. I will ...
7 years ago
SF Signal

All Good Things… - So long, and thanks for all the fish...
7 years ago
Lucy Ann Wade

Flawless - a film - So here it is, our short film Flawless. I hope you enjoy it.
7 years ago
Isabel Yap

2015 Year in Review, Quiz Edition - 2015 is ending! *runs around like a headless chicken* I can’t really talk about this year yet, since I haven’t given myself the headspace to reflect on thi...
8 years ago
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Four Authors talk about inspiration and process (Part I) - The SEA is Ours is a steampunk anthology focusing on steampunk coming from South East Asia. A Rosarium project, the fundraiser … Continue reading →
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Cannabis Baby: Mascot for One and All! - I've never had call to categorize something under so many categories before! Cannabis Baby is the loveable mascot for our line of tshirts made for one and ...
9 years ago
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On the Shoreline of Infinity - I’m having a great time at the moment. Mark Toner (musical and artistical friend for many years) and I have decided that the time is ripe to create a Scien...
9 years ago
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- I am moving to Oxford tomorrow and getting over a bout of pneumonia, and it's *Person of Interest* that has left me feeling NOT OKAY. Noooooooo. Crosspost...
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Quiche straight from the Bucket

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9 years ago
Not By Its Cover

Convention Survival Guide - All up, I had a really great Worldcon experience. I’d go so far as to say that it was the best convention I’ve ever been to. This was, in part, due to some...
9 years ago
Prince Jvstin

Flying Higher: An Anthology of Superhero Poetry Is Available! - Originally posted by *michaeldthomas* at Flying Higher: An Anthology of Superhero Poetry Is Available! As many of you know, *shadesong* and I have been put...
10 years ago
Tim Maughan

Science Fiction Is Here, It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed – SF and Class - Science fiction author Lavie Tidhar recently asked me to write a guest post on SF and class for his excellent World SF Blog, and the result went live this ...
11 years ago
Kevin McVeigh

The Dread and Fear Of Kings — Richard Paul Russo (Short Fiction pt3) - Under the direction of a decaying king an army progresses across a continent, city by city, entering, occupying and wilfully destroying all that is good th...
13 years ago
Jim Steel

Come And Let Me Hear You Sing - And, while we’re in a rock’n’roll mood, Come And Let Me Hear You Sing is a limited-edition Primevals live album that is being given away with their new stu...
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