Author: Alex Irvine
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Anatomical Figuration of Amazon/Macmillan
Bookninja, which is always worth reading, on the Amazon/Macmillan kerfuffle that will determine the course of Western civilization: “Somewhere around the duodenum, Amazon’s foot, which had apparently entered through its own mouth, met Macmillan’s foot which, as we saw yesterday, entered through Amazon’s rectum, and the two are having a kungfu battle amid the half-digested…
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100 Stories for Haiti
Buy this book when it comes out. Not because I have a story in it (“Snapdragons,” reprinted from the Vestal Review), but because it’s a good thing to do.
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Indomitable Iron Man B&W #1 Preview
A couple of pages–cover and title–snatched in the dark of night (actually on a brilliant and frigid seaside morning) from Comic Related.
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Alanis Morissette is the Dark-Haired Girl
This conversation with writer/director John Alan Simon has me real real interested in this movie version of Radio Free Albemuth, which occupies a strange place in the PKD canon. Odd to see it being the first of his books to get a serious and faithful* film treatment. *(Blade Runner being serious but not ultimately faithful…
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The Perils of Eclecticism
Quoth Paolo Bacigalupi in a recent Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast: I think almost all of the big respectable science fiction and fantasy magazines have the same exact problem which is that they’re eclectic. And, eclectic products have a much harder time finding an audience who will follow them. Part of me wants to…
Crooked House Fictions 