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Not the Soup. The Award. Not that Award; the Other Award.

Okay, I got this via Scalzi’s blog, which linked in turn to this official-looking site, so I guess it’s on the level even though I’ve received no official notification. But it looks like Blindsight made the finals for the John W. Campbell Award. It’s in there with the usual worthy suspects from the Hugos and […]

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Torontonians: Infest Wisely

You all know the scoop on self-publishers, don’t you? Those losers who, unable to interest any legitimate publisher in their verbiage, haunt Kinkos with pockets full of quarters, printing out their magnum opus on the backs of old cable bills in the hope that some streetcorner pedestrian might take pity on them. A hapless breed, […]

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Neuropath

I’ve just finished reading a draft of R. Scott Bakker’s soon-to-be-released Neuropath. Holy shit. The neurology of consciousness. The advantages of nonsentience. People neurologically stripped of their behavioral constraints so that they can make the necessary Big Decisions of life and death without getting caught up in touchy-feeling shackles like conscience and morality. All the […]

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