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Showing posts with label Rhys Hughes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rhys Hughes. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Free and low priced ebooks

Winterlong 
by Elizabeth Hand
$1.99 (today only)

Free

(includes stories by Kristine Ong Muslim, Rhys Hughes, David Gerrold and myself:  I send Kafka to Honduras in a tale about Kafka's imaginary exotic education)
Free

Friday, June 21, 2013

Free ebooks

At Smashwords (so Kindle, Kobo, Obi Wan Kenobi should all work), Rhys Hughes'  Sticky Situations of Zwicky Fingers is free.  CODE: DL35A

As is his Ironic Fantastic issue of Sein Und Werden CODE: HU56B

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Interview with Jamaica Kincaid:
"The people who invented race, who grouped us together as “black,” were inventing and categorizing their ability to do something vicious and wrong. I don’t see why I have to give them validity, or why I have to approach that label with any kind of seriousness. We give the people who make this category too much legitimacy by accepting it. We give them too much power. "
 Fiction about the Future -- Contest for writers ages 13-25

Award-winning SF announced at Campbell Conference:

  • Molly Gloss won the Sturgeon Award for "The Grinnell Method"
  • Adam Roberts won the Campbell Award for Jack Glass
  • Kevin J. Anderson and Steven Savile won the Lifeboat to the Stars Award for Tau Ceti

Rhys Hughes' edited zine:  The Ironic Fantastic #1

Douglas Lain has added the reward of reading his entire novel to fun his "Think the Impossible" Tour.

Luc Reid seeks funding for research about a climate change--to be funneled into his novel.

Monday, December 17, 2012

Free ebooks

Stakeout at the Vampire Circus (Dan Shamble, Zombie PI) by Kevin J. Anderson

Rabbit Hunter by Billie Sue Mosiman

Rhys Hughes also has a free ebook on Smashwords, but you may need to friend him to get the code.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Farmer invented electric and wind car.

Nifty traits of the eight-limbed:  octopus & squid

Teaching myths.  Teachers have been misinformed. Part of the problem is that so much of education is presented as fact that is not. Esp. telling about the well-informed teacher being the most susceptible to myth.

Rhys Hughes introduced me to Daniil Kharms, a surrealist with a fascination for Sherlock Holmes, the everyday bizarre and grotesque violence.  The best of these, "A Knight," is devastating in its underplayed emotion.  Three other very good shorts online are "Andrey Semyonovich," "How a Man Crumbled," and "The Destiny of a Professor's Wife."  Here are the general story contents.  An ebook is available:  The Plummeting Old Women.  Hughes is putting together a Kharms-tribute collection.

Video clips for Steve Aylett's faux-documentary, Lint, about a speculative pulp writer.  Includes cameos from Alan Moore and other famous writers.

1936 readers predict which readers will be read in the future.