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Monday, December 23, 2013

Free and Reduced ebook lunches (Award winning and nominated works)

Fiction
After: First Light (AFTER post-apocalyptic series, Book 0) 
by Scott Nicholson 
Free

After: The Shock (AFTER post-apocalyptic series, Book 1) 
by Scott Nicholson 
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Finalist for Crawford and Stoker awards.

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Philip K. Dick award-winning SF
 





Nominated for a Locus award

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Nominated for Locus and Gandalf awards 


Winner of the Golden Duck.

Winner of Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus, Geffen, Mythopoeic, SF Site awards.  Nominated for many others.

Winner of the Andre Norton Award

Nonfiction


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Sunday, November 25, 2012

"City of Blind Delight" by Catherynne M. Valente

Anthology:  Clockwork Phoenix 1

Writers with elaborate descriptive skills tend to earn more writerly praise within the genre.  Valentine is no exception.  While her ability does impress--"graffiti-barnacled leviathan" for a train--certain readers will be put off.  Mike Allen clearly wanted to establish a certain tone for his anthology.  He isn't going to let it be easy on you, but the view will be worth it.

The story opens with speculative philosophizing:  A train exists that traverses the world, all train stations.  Gris, a business man, unknowingly steps aboard and enters the station for the City of Blind Delight, where you either work as a dancer or a prostitute.  Dancers decorate the walls and ceiling.  And a prostitute greets Gris, shows she is both a woman and a machine, and he returns home.  The story closes again on its speculative philosophy.


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