Author: Alex Irvine
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DaMarcus Beasley Rises from the Dead
What a goal. http://rd3.videos.sapo.pt/play?file=http://rd3.videos.sapo.pt/fr3bI6TuZHzzz2kGmumk/mov/1 Maybe he’s going to remember how to play soccer in time to make the final 23 for South Africa…
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Because Our Alien Ancestors Made It That Way, Of Course
I mean, why else would Saturn have a giant hexagonal weather pattern around its North Pole? (from physorg via http://io9.com/)
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Your Day in Genre Taxonomy and Premature Elegy
N.K. Jemisin, guest-blogging over at VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days, suggests a binary division within urban fantasy. (My .02, given in short form in the comments, is that both of her suggested subspecies de-emphasize the essential nature of the mode, which is the re-creation of the experience of the urban as something fantastical in nature. I wrote…
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Mighty Cool Dash Shaw Web Series
Episode 1 of The Unclothed Man in the 35th Century AD: http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/271548326
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Maybe the Dumbest Thing an Agent Said This Week
From Galleycat: “In Virginia Woolf’s day, you just sent in your manuscript and it was published, no questions asked.” Riiiiiight. This insight coming to you from the literary historian who gave us Alec Baldwin’s A Promise to Ourselves.
Crooked House Fictions 