Author: Alex Irvine
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Mars!
While Phoenix keeps doing its thing (most recently observing falling snow!), comes news that AMC is doing a movie of Stan Robinson’s landmark Red Mars. I love that book. It’s SF done right, in every way. (…although, if this is true, who knows when we’ll ever get to the Moon again, let alone Mars?) Also,…
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SF Site Interview on the Vertigopedia
…can be found here, along with all sorts of other genre tidbits, among which is the surprising and lamentable decision to publish another Hitchhiker’s Guide novel. No! Don’t do it! Well, I guess it’s not surprising. But it is lamentable, despite the involvement of Eoin Colfer.
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Prescience Among the Postmoderns
David Harvey, writing in 1989: The biggest physical export from New York City is now waste paper. The city’s economy in fact rests on the production of fictitious capital to lend to the real estate agents who cut deals for the highly paid professionals who manufacture fictitious capital. (The Condition of Postmodernity, 331-32) Who says…
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Interview on Amazon
I talked with Jeff VanderMeer, who is a swell writer and also an indefatigable blogger etc., a few days ago for Amazon’s Omnivoracious books blog, and now the results are up for all to see…
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Snack and Yack
If you happen to be in Orono tomorrow at 3pm, stop by the Foster Student Innovation Center on the UMaine campus, where I’ll be part of a roundtable discussion on the question of how to get published.
Crooked House Fictions 