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Thoughts on My Hugo Award
http://blog.oup.com/ 2008/ 08/ hugo_award/Jeff Prucher, author of Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction was recently honored with a Hugo Award. Below are his thoughts on the honor. Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction recently won the Hugo Award for Best Related Book. This is an enormous honor for me, and for Oxford as well.
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Eritrea: African Reading Challenge 2008
http://globalvoicesonline.org/ 2008/ 08/ 29/ eritrea-african-reading-challenge-2…As part of African Reading Challenge 2008, Scarlet read a book about Eritrea by Michaela Wrong, “I didn't do it for you: How the West betrayed a small African nation.” She says: “Not that much has been written by Western journalists about Eritrea. Michaela Wrong decided to write all of it.”
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Book Review: Ghost Walk by Brian Keene
http://www.fatally-yours.com/ horror-literature/ book-review-ghost-walk-by-brian…Review by Jude Felton Being the clueless monkey that I can sometimes be I had no idea that Ghost Walk was a follow-up to Keene’s previous novel Dark Hollow. However, according to the authors comments at the beginning of Ghost Walk, it is not essential to have read that book previous to this one.
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Guyana, Bahamas: The good and bad of Carifesta X
http://globalvoicesonline.org/ 2008/ 08/ 29/ guyana-bahamas-the-good-and-bad-of-…The special immigration stamp for visitors to Carifesta X in Guyana. Carifesta — the Caribbean Festival of Arts — was staged for the first time in 1972, hosted by the government of Guyana. Originally intended as an expression of cultural confidence by the independence-era anglophone Caribbean,
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Shawn Bailey takes third place in Irreantum Fiction Contest
http://www.motleyvision.org/ ?p=508The Association for Mormon Letters has announced the winners of the 2008 Irreantum Fiction Contest and the new Charlotte and Eugene England Personal Essay Contest. I’m pleased to note that AMV’s own Shawn P. Bailey was awarded third place in the fiction contest for his short story “Outside.” I had the pleasure of reading a draft of “Outside.” It’s a very good story.
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Starkiller: The Jedi Bendu Script Site
http://www.driko.org/ 2008/ 08/ starkiller-jedi-bendu-script-site.htmlStarkiller: The Jedi Bendu Script Site has some lofty goals, including:To pursue and find (photocopies of) early drafts and screenplays of the original trilogy (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi) and the prequel trilogy (The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith)."The site has collected some pretty interesting stuff...
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Auden’s Ogre
http://valuesaustralia.com/ blog/ ?p=688Did Auden really write this about the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, crushing the “Prague Spring”? Or did he write it with some extraordinary, nostradamusian foresight, about George W. Bush? August 1968 The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master speech.
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TRAVELS IN THE SCRIPTORIUM
http://radio.weblogs.com/ 0116902/ 2008/ 08/ 27.html#a5795Travels in the Scriptorium. A demented man, Mr. Blank, a war criminal on trial, tries to remember. Like us. "The old man sits on the edge of the narrow bed, palms spread out on his knees, head down, staring at the floor. He has no idea that a camera is planted in the ceiling directly above him.
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Barack Obama: More Leftist Dogma
http://www.dcthornton.com/ 2008/ 08/ 28/ barack-obama-more-leftist-dogma/Barack Obama: More Leftist Dogma August 28th, 2008 Barack Obama gave his acceptance speech tonight. It was definitely a historic moment, all partisanship aside — and on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s March on Washington address. After acknowledging the moment, I listened to his speech.
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Character Bios
http://mysticwicks.com/ showthread.php?t=199668&goto=newpostthese are just character bios that i made up today while at work for the characters in my story. The top two are the main characters the rest are other characters that play some part in the story. i dont know if i'll be making more or not. it all depends on where the story goes.
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