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Literary SF: Thanks For Suggestions

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I want to thank all of you who have been kind enough to offer me suggestions for literary SF titles (the original post is here). I’m going to list it all here for your amusement: (Larry’s suggestions)John Crowley’s works–Aegypt, Little/Big, etc.Gene WolfeUrsela Le GuinJ. G. BallardAdam Roberts (have one of his books) (Tim Walters’ suggestions)J.G. Ballard: The Terminal BeachJohn Crowley: Engine SummerSamuel R. Delany: Dhalgren (have it)Thomas M. Disch: 334; On Wings Of SongUrsula K. LeGuin: The Left Hand Of Darkness (have it)Kelly Link: Magic For BeginnersMichael Moorcock: Mother LondonGeoff Ryman: The Child GardenGene Wolfe: The Fifth Head Of CerberusJohn Fowles: A MaggotAlasdair Gray: LanarkRichard M. Powers: Galatea 2.2 (benc’s suggestions)Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (JohnC’s suggestions)Rollback by Robert J. SawyerMindscan by Robert J. SawyerRed Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (Demian’s suggestions)Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (Nick Lyle’s suggestions)Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (have it and have read it) (Anonymous’ suggestions)The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell This is a pretty good list thus far. Thanks all for the suggestions and if anyone would like to add to this list, leave a comment! Nothing wrong with having a five-hundred book list of literary SF titles. Heck, toss some literary fantasy in there!

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Want to Move: Looking for a new place.

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Yeah, I’m officially looking for a new place…again. Some of you already know some of the bologna happening around here from previous posts, so I won’t bore you with that stuff. It’s just getting worse and now I’m finding out that I’m being drastically overcharged for utilities and, well, I just don’t want to deal with this situation anymore. I don’t like being taken advantage of. It pisses me off. So, I am looking for a new place in Santa Cruz, California. Preferably semi-near the university, or at least where I can take a bus directly to campus. Would like a decent sized room, low drama, and basically a stable environment where people don’t poop on the toilet and leave it like that…I have a craigslist ad here if you want to know more about what I’m looking for. Any help here, everyone, would be fantastic. I want to move by the beginning of the school year, because that’s when I’ll be paid. Thanks!

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Ask the Bloggers Series: Question #3 (I’m in it!)

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This is slightly old news now (and John did repost my responses as a guest post while I was on vacation), but I figure you all would like to see the answers to his third question, since I’m in it and so are bunches of others. A lot of great points are made and I had another silly typo. Okay, so it’s only a slight typo, since I used a real word and it can be molded to be correct, but I meant to say “mythos” instead of “ethos”. I guess I don’t know my latin as well as I thought! Doh! Anywho, you can find the answers here. The question was: In recent years, there has a been a rise in interest in the urban fantasy genre, even prompting some publishers to republish older urban fantasy works, such as Pyr’s recent publication of Stalking the Unicorn by Mike Resnick. What is your explanation for the recent rise in the popularity of this subgenre?Secondly, since the rise and fall of popularity of fantasy and SF subgenres tends to be cyclical, what subgenre of fantasy do you predict will see an upsurge in its popularity once urban fantasy is on the wane? So, anyone have any thoughts of their own? Figure I could open up to those of you who read my blog, since I’m curious what you all think! (Don’t click the read more, there isn’t any more after this!)

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I Have Returned!

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This is going to be a really fast update post. I’m back from Oregon and a lot of things happened while I was gone (things not related to my vacation of course). I received four rejections for four different short stories, had some guest bloggers post some interesting material, and came home to a huge stack of books, the vast majority of which are for the Gaylactic Spectrum awards (of which I’m a judge). So it was all rather interesting. I have a lot of things lined up for posting over the next few days, particularly things related to world building month. So stay tuned! (Don’t click the read more, there isn’t any more after this!)

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Oregon: Heading Your Way

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I just wanted to let everyone know that I am going on vacation tomorrow. There are several guest bloggers lined up for the days I’ll be gone. I’m not sure how many posts will be put up while I’m gone, so if you see a reduction in daily posting, it’s cause I’m gone. No worries, though. I imagine some interesting content will show up from Tia and John and what not, since both of them are fantastic bloggers that I follow on Google Reader fairly regularly. Thanks to them for volunteering to help me out. There are some others I’m hoping will accept my invitation soon too, and if they do while I’m gone, thanks for blogging for me! Anyway. I will be gone for about a week. I’m going to Oregon with my girlfriend to see some of the family and to take a little roadtrip. We’re going to see some neat stuff, and a certain special location located in Portland that she’ll be excited for. Anywho!

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