The Bodhisattva

Two posts for me in a day is a rarity, but a comment on the Nebula final ballot:
Every year, the major genre awards announce their short-lists, and for the most part the nominees at least represent efforts that I either agree with or at the very least can understand what some saw in them. [...]

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Recently, author Tobias Buckell shared with the SF/F community a rough draft of his notes on a speech he recently gave concerning the origins and the depths of his love for Science Fiction. Reading the article made me think about Science Fiction, as an art, a genre, even just the term, not exactly in [...]

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Another hot contest at Fantasybookspot.com. On March 15, I will draw the name of one lucky winner, who will walk away with all 3 books in R. Scott Bakker’s Prince of Nothing trilogy, yes that’s all 3 of them: The Darkess that Comes Before (which I reviewed here), The Warrior Prophet, and the recently [...]

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Some good stuff been occuring lately around the web:
- An interview with author Steve Aylett by Rick Klaw for Fantastic Metropolis. I loved his Lint , and it as was one of my 10 favorite books of the last year. Among other things, Aylett divulges to, “I haven’t made a huge impact on [...]

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After extending this contest out an extra week, I just announced the three winners of our second February contest over at Fantasybookspot.com, who will each receive an autographed copy of Naomi Novik’s debut, Temeraire.

Check to see if you are one of the three lucky winners! Thanks to all who participated, and congrats to the [...]

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I just wanted to note that the winner of one of our 2 current contests at Fantasybookpot.com this month has been announced! If you entered, go check to see if you were the lucky winner of the signed copy of Jeff Vandermeer’s Shriek: An Afterword.

Congrats to the winners, and thanks to all who [...]

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Or to take from Hartwell and Kramer for a moment, the difference between shit and shinola. Although FBS has been around for longer than a year, it has been around 12 months since we started doing various interviews and established strong ties with the publishers in the genre. Like anything, everything is a [...]

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