The Bodhisattva

I am no longer accepting fiction submissions for our initial issue, and will again be accepting submissions for stories on September 1st. All guidelines from the first issue carry over, except we are increasing the word count limit to 7,000.\par
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I am accepting non-fiction (articles/reviews) now (and always). If you get it to me [...]

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60. - Secret Life by Jeff Vandermeer (2004)
Wonderful introduction into VanderMeer’s work, and more than his other works shows the wide range of his story telling. At the same time, it’s a startling reread of some earlier works that gives hints to works to come - I never knew a short featuring a [...]

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Tim Eldred the writer/artist behind the graphic novel Grease Monkey gives us the lowdown on his work and the journey seeing it through - essay style - at Fantasybookspot.com.\par
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Check out Graphic Novels: going the long way round at FBS!\par
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Another of the July contests come to an end and yesterday Damon announced the two winners that will receive a copy of Tim Eldred’s graphic novel Grease Monkey along with a personalized sketch!\par
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To keep up with new contests please consider signing up to our newsletter!. Our current contest is a chance to win [...]

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I have been filling out some of my collections and I was wondering if anyone (I know some are comic fans here) could assist on possibly finding some particular comics I need to fill some gaps -\par
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Eternal Warrior#4 (Valiant) - Looking for a 9.8 slabbed or better, there is one on Ebay but it’s price [...]

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Sorry for the slight delay, I have been busy getting several hundred of Silver Age comics ready to be sent to CGC. On to the list:

70. - Breathmoss and other Exhalations by Ian R. Macleod (2004)
I was trying to decide which Macleod book really represented my favorite by him as I have enjoyed both [...]

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I just announced winners of two contests at Fantasybookspot.com that feature prizes from Robin Hobb and Scott Lynch.\par
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Go see if you won a copy of Robin Hobb’s Shaman’s Crossing and Forest Mage with autographed book plates here, and check to see if you are the winner of signed copy of Scott [...]

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Ummm…I generally don’t comment on movies, but I saw Edison Force yesterday which features Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, LL Cool J in a fictional city of Edison where a dirty police task force runs crime (what’s so fictional about that?). It’s not even that terrible but there is just something fundamentally wrong and down [...]

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80. - Blade of Tyshalle by Matthew Stover (2002)\par
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The fact that some Star Wars fans actually didn’t like Stover’s adaptation to Revenge of the Sith answered a lot of questions I had about the popularity of some of their other titles. Out of all the books yet to be released and promised to us [...]

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A bunch of late links that don’t qualify as news…\par
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- Guy Gavriel Kay has a blog.\par
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- Late on the worst kept secret in the world. What isn’t a secret is that I’d rather read Joe Hill’s next book (loved his collection) than his father’s.\par
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- Gary Westfall reviews A Scanner Darkly and Superman at Locus.\par
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Watched possibly the most boring championship game I have ever seen in any sport last night.\par

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Continuing the list started here….\par
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90. - Nekropolis by Maureen McHugh (2002)\par
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McHugh’s China Mountain Zhang is one of the best Science Fiction offered us in the 90’s, and while Nekropolis isn’t quite its equal, this books casts a tangible funereal aura while still promoting a habitual desire to read.\par
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89. - A Storm of Swords by George [...]

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I get so sick of people who act like nothing of merit or quality gets written anymore particularly in a field that is so broadly labeled speculative fiction. People who think science fiction is little more than Space Man Spiff (which is hot!) and Fantasy is still all sentimental rubbish they know as children [...]

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Over at Fantasybookspot.com I just announced our first August contest, a drawing that will award one winner a signed copy of Alan Campbell’s debut Scar Night. I haven’t finished reading it yet, but really enjoyed what I have read (and will offer full opinion upon conclusion) but some have and here is what [...]

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I loved Light, and I mentioned some time ago M. John Harrison’s forthcoming Nova Swing.\par
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I was doing some surfing and saw that Harrison’s site was updated with more information (well at least more than I was aware of) on the release that included an excerpt from Nova Swing.\par
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