Author: Alex Irvine
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Apotheosis of the Headline Writer
This Newsweek article about urban chicken farming (there’s a phrase you don’t see every day) must have been the best thing that ever happened to whoever came up with the title “The New Coop de Ville.” In other news, Baghdad is building a subway and SF magazines are (still) having a hard time. (Subscribe! Subscribe!)
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100 Sentences About the City of the Future: A Jeremiad
That’s the name of a story I just sold to the perspicacious editorial tandem behind Postscripts, Pete Crowther and Nick Gevers. Feels good to be writing short stories again.
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Breaking: SF Not Dying, Again
Or so the New Scientist would have us believe. Interesting comments at the end from “leading science fiction authors,” among whom is listed Margaret Atwood. Maybe now the fen who still have a grudge about her saying thirty years ago that she wasn’t a science fiction writer will let it go. Stan Robinson’s comments are…
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Believe It or Not, I’m Walking on Air
This is just about too horribly good to be true. From the muchly enjoyable Hero Complex blog at the LA Times: “‘Greatest American Hero’ flies again? Believe it or not, yes”
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Barack Obama, Nerd
At least judging by this list of fifty facts, from the Telegraph. I mean, Conan comics? Awesome.
Crooked House Fictions 