The Bodhisattva

I need to hire this dude to do video rants for Heliotrope, Check it out at YouTube.

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I have content to post, but at the moment I’m apparently haggling with Wordpress (key word apparently) - I may have to move my blog - which would be a royal pain in the ass and completely unnecessary, but that’s basically life in a sentence.\par
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More later, as I get verification.

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…at least until we get polled and vote Dan Brown.
I must have missed national half-price day on crack in England, but JK Rowling won a poll by The Book Magazine that anointed her the greatest living British writer.
“Our survey provides a fascinating insight into what the British public thinks makes a ‘great’ writer,” said Christine [...]

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I have been following various online discussions (via messageboard etc), and want to ask - Who is this author?
- 15 Hugo Nominations, 4 Hugo Wins.
- 13 Nebula Nominations, 2 Nebula Wins
- 8 World Fantasy Award Nominations, 1 Win
- 45 Locus Award Nominations, 11 Wins
Has garnered this acclaim for Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror works, for [...]

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I’m assuming most people have read the first chapter available for August release of Dune 7: The Hunters of Dune, brought to us by the duo of Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert.

If you could animate the text to scroll up, one could imagine that this is not Dune 7 the continuation of legendary Science [...]

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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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Slight rant - old news - but this is what these are for -
I think when you get to a point where you interact with the genre/literature community, and particularly portions of the fan base via message boards for a long time and actively, you eventually will have disagreements regarding various [...]

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t’s getting to seem like it. I don’t mind movements, they have had a indisputable history of being progressive, I’m thankful (everyday) for New Wave, enjoyed Cyberpunk, loving New Weird (if for nothing else, in between Mieville’s proclamations he managed to bring public awareness back up on M. John Harrison, and for that he can [...]

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