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History Is Bunk: A Meme

Instructions: enter your birthdate into Wikipedia (without year), then post three events, two births and one death. I thought I’d put a little spin on the meme, by trying to relate my entries to SF/fantasy.

Events:

1930 – The radio mystery program The Shadow airs for the first time.

1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes).

1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.

Births:

1965 – J. K. Rowling, English novelist / 1980 – Harry Potter, fictional protagonist of J.K. Rowling‘s series Harry Potter

1966 – Dean Cain, American actor (played Superman in the TV show, Lois & Clark)

Death:

2001 – Poul Anderson, American author (b. 1926)

F&SF’s Hugo Nominees Online

F&SF‘s Hugo Award-nominees are now online.

Brainstorming at LiveJournal Community

A few days ago, I mentioned that Michael Burstein started a couple LiveJournal communities devoted to the big three print magazines. Today, I noticed that there’s some interesting conversation going on in the comments to a new post in the F&SF community, about why readers read and/or subscribe to the magazine, or vice versa. Go check it out, and add your two cents.

NY Comic Con Pics

After the NY Comic Con, I’d intended to make a post about it, a con-report sort of thing. Alas, it never happened. So, instead, you get a Flickr photoset!

Hugo A Feast For Martin

SCI FI Wire just published a piece I wrote about George R.R. Martin’s recent Hugo Award nomination for A Feast for Crows.

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Wilson In A Spin Over Hugo

SCI FI Wire just published a piece I wrote about Robert Charles Wilson’s recent Hugo Award nomination for Spin.

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LJ Communities

Michael A. Burstein has created LiveJournal communities for F&SF, Analog, and Asimov’s.

via SF Signal

MacLeod Earns World Praise

SCI FI Wire just published a piece I wrote about Ken MacLeod’s Hugo nomination for Learning the World.

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Re-Mastered

For all you Metallica fans out there, check this out: Kerrang! just released a special re-recording of Metallica’s Master Of Puppets in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the classic album’s release. You can preview all the tracks here.

Or just go here and listen to what I’m guessing is going to be the best track: Trivium’s cover of the title track. It’s really quite awesome. They didn’t do anything new or original with it–they didn’t make it their own, as most good covers do. But it’s like a scene by scene remake of a film that somehow equals the original. Trivium are total Metallica fanboys, and they’re just totally true to that tune. Instrumentally, they sound almost exactly like Metallica, and vocally, Matt Heafy isn’t far off.

Scalzi Honored by Noms

SCI FI Wire just published a piece I wrote about John Scalzi’s Hugo and Campbell Award nominations.

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