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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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Charles Payseur

Regular Sip - Understudies by Priya Sridhar (Hireath Publishing) - *Understudies by Priya Sridhar (Hireath Publishing)* In this follow-up to *Offstage Offerings*, The Haunted Basilio Theater is back, and this time it’s (fr...
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Long Pale Road

Get This Bitch Banned - (Content warning: explicit sex acts, threats of violence, homophobic language) We’re fucking roller coasters. We’re emptying our balls on theme parks and i...
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Ruthless Culture

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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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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JY Yang

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1 year 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

New poetry book EVERYTHING THAWS is out! + Locus poll - My poetry memoir, EVERYTHING THAWS, is now available from Ben Yehuda Press! This book has been a long time coming, and it contains some of the most persona...
1 year ago
Dave Hutchison

Tales From The Black Sarcophagus: The Small Boats Remix - There’s a lot of compassion in Westminster. I’m sorry, that was a joke. But you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s true from the number of times ‘compassion’ ...
1 year ago
Martin McGrath

LIVING IN A PIGEON-BOMB DEMOCRACY - In WW2 BF Skinner – behaviourism’s big cheese – created a pigeon guided bomb. Skinner built his theories about free will (it didn’t exist) and education (r...
1 year ago
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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Steven Poore

#SmallPressBigStories: THIS DREAMING ISLE - #SmallPressBigStories presents a new review of THIS DREAMING ISLE, one of Unsung Stories' flagship anthologies!
2 years ago
Alexander Ikawah

FLASH FICTION: THE OLD MAN AT JEVANJEE GARDENS - I had never paid much attention to the old man before that day. Twice or thrice when I had gone to the park to sit and read he had walked slowly by, look...
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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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Zeitgeist Spam

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L.S. Johnson

gratitude at the end of the year - This has been … a year. There were ups and downs and nothing went the way I thought it would. Sometimes it went better and sometimes it went worse and the ...
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Sophie E Tallis

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3 years ago
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...
3 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 ...
3 years ago
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...
3 years ago
Reparations Scholar-Activist

About the Reparations Scholar-Activism of Esther Stanford-Xosei - About me Esther Stanford-Xosei is a jurisconsult (legal specialist in jurisprudence), reparationist, (reparations activist), dynamic community advocate and...
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...
4 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...
4 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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Actually Aisha

Bulletpoints: Good Omens - (Being a slightly extended version of the accurate but not very nice complaints sent to her friends by A. Subramanian, definitely not a witch, who will sto...
5 years ago
AfroCyberPunk

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

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
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Alix E. Harrow

This Blog is Dead; Long Live the Blog! - Since there hasn’t been a book review in actual years, you probably already suspected this blog was dead. It was murdered by the madcap pace of the last tw...
6 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...
6 years ago
Hal Duncan

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...
6 years ago
Weird Fiction Review

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...
6 years ago
The Fold of the Artist

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 ...
6 years ago
Carrie Patel

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...
6 years ago
SF Mistressworks

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’...
6 years ago
Pornokitsch

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...
7 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.
7 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...
7 years ago
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.)
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 years ago
Molly Gloss

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...
8 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 ...
8 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 ...
8 years ago
SF Signal

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

Flawless - a film - So here it is, our short film Flawless. I hope you enjoy it.
8 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
Chie and Weng

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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Tricia Sullivan

HR Insight - How Can Staffing Help Your Business Scale? - The staffing industry is dynamic and includes key players among them staffing companies and agencies, professional employer organizations, recruiters and h...
9 years ago
Amy Sterling Casil

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
Noel Chidwick

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
Yunitsa

- 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...
9 years ago
Quiche straight from the Bucket

Corporate Responsibility Reporting (7) - Over this series of posts, we have built up a pretty detailed picture of what the Big Four mean when they promote the “independence” of their assurance s...
10 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...
10 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...
11 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 ...
12 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...
14 years ago
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