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June, 2009

06/30: Heart of Hush by Lou Anders

06/30: Judging a book by its cover by Brian James

06/30: Mark of the Demon...in 60 Seconds by John Joseph Adams

06/30: Time is Running Out! by John Klima

06/30: Lord of the Ringlings by Adam McCauley

06/29: Web Round-Up, Now With International Flavor by Megan Messinger

06/29: Ancient Rockets: Oz Road Trip, Day 2 by Kage Baker

06/29: Not so urban fantasy: Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s The Silent Strength of Stones by Jo Walton

06/29: Doomed Summer Pilots: Virtuality by Genevieve Valentine

06/29: Bringing the House Down: Norse Code by Arachne Jericho

06/29: The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 14 by Leigh Butler

06/29: What music reminds you of science fiction or fantasy? by John Ottinger III

06/28: The toy tie-in by Irene Gallo

06/28: Santa Olivia...in 60 Seconds by John Joseph Adams

06/27: Weekend Getaway: Pratt & Valente by John Klima

06/27: Saturday Morning Cartoons: “Beatles Rock Band” and “Sea Orchestra” by Irene Gallo

06/26: Characters and cryptography: Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon by Jo Walton

06/26: Flinx Transcendent...in 60 Seconds by John Joseph Adams

06/26: The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 13 by Leigh Butler

06/26: Michael Jackson: 1958-2009 by Pablo Defendini

06/26: LotR re-read: Two Towers III.3, “The Uruk-hai” by Kate Nepveu

06/25: Valley of the Dead...in 60 Seconds by John Joseph Adams

06/25: Star Trek Re-watch: “This Side of Paradise” by Eugene Myers

06/25: Web Round-Up: Contests, Giveaways and Freebies Edition by Megan Messinger

06/25: The Zen of Professor Nimbus: Nimbus in the Firmament by Michael Sloan

06/24: The Transformers Live-Action Movies, as they should have been. by Pablo Defendini

06/24: The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 12 by Leigh Butler

06/24: Bestial...in 60 Seconds by John Joseph Adams

06/24: The Cheap Scare Scenario by Brian James

06/24: Writers Workshop of Horror: interview with editor Michael Knost by Jason Sizemore

06/24: Oliver Who? (A Mathom from the Time Closet) by Robert Charles Wilson

06/23: Star Trek Re-watch: “A Taste of Armageddon” by Torie Atkinson

06/23: John Harwood’s The Séance by Justin Howe

06/23: Crafting the Psalms of Isaak: An Interview with Ken Scholes by Jason Henninger

06/23: To War, and Not Lightly: Kings, “The Sabbath Queen” by Genevieve Valentine

06/23: More dimensions than you’d expect; Samuel Delany’s Babel 17 by Jo Walton

06/23: The House That George Built by Harry Turtledove and James Bennett

06/22: Concept art from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland by Irene Gallo

06/22: Web Round-Up by Megan Messinger

06/22: War of the Words Goes Global by Pablo Defendini

06/22: Telling Stories With Character by Jay Lake

06/22: The Wonderful World of Writing for Teens by Brian James

06/22: Ancient Rockets: Oz Road Trip, Day 1 by Kage Baker

06/22: Catching Up With Amber Benson by geoffrey h goodwin

06/22: LotR re-read: Two Towers III.2, “The Riders of Rohan” by Kate Nepveu

06/22: A funny book with a lot of death in it: Iain Banks’s The Crow Road by Jo Walton

06/21: KGB Fantastic Fiction 6/17/09 Post-apocalyptic Barter Skills by Liz Gorinsky

06/21: The Greatest Stories Never Told by Brian James

06/20: Patient Zero...in 60 Seconds by John Joseph Adams

06/20: Saturday Morning Cartoons: “Oceansize” and “Scoop Volante” by Irene Gallo

06/19: Shared Worlds and real life fantastical cities by Matt Staggs

06/19: The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 11 by Leigh Butler

06/19: Packing books for a trip by Jo Walton

06/19: Genre Police by Brian James

06/19: “I’m thirteen, I’m a girl, and I like fantasy and some science fiction. What should I be reading?” by Melissa Singer

06/19: “You are my miracle”: True Blood’s second season premiere by Nina Lourie

06/19: A Softer World 10 by Joey Comeau and Emily Horne

06/18: Field Study (An Author In Search of Zombies) by Brian James

06/18: Star Trek Re-watch: “Space Seed” by Eugene Myers

06/18: Coraline: Stories From Inside a Piano by Megan Messinger

06/18: Stretching my legs by Jay Lake

06/18: Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris by Nina Lourie

06/18: Starman Jones, or how Robert A. Heinlein did plot on a good day by Jo Walton

06/18: Don’t Panic: Magazine Closings by John Klima

06/18: The Redemption of Professor Nimbus Excerpt #2 by Management Services

06/17: Clocks and stars and magic: Melissa Scott and Lisa A, Barnett’s Point of Hopes by Jo Walton

06/17: Review: Demon’s Lexicon by Nina Lourie

06/17: Infamous: Sparking with Power and Fun by David Pucik

06/17: The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 10 by Leigh Butler

06/17: The First Asian American ComiCon (AACC) by Torie Atkinson

06/17: Announcing the Tor.com Store! by Pablo Defendini

06/17: Happy Birthday, Michael Mitchell by Joanna Estep

06/16: Star Trek Re-watch: “The Return of the Archons” by Torie Atkinson

06/16: Web Round-Up: Contests, Giveaways and Freebies Edition by Megan Messinger

06/16: Review: Halo Uprising by Rajan Khanna

06/16: Play it Again, Sam: Moon by Genevieve Valentine

06/16: Jacqueline Carey’s Santa Olivia by Mark Graham

06/16: India’s superheroes: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children by Jo Walton

06/16: Julian Comstock, by Robert Charles Wilson: Chapters 2 and 3 by Management Services

06/15: Jumping Off the Cliff, Looking for Water on the Way Down by Jay Lake

06/15: Web Round-Up by Megan Messinger

06/15: Words Don’t Settle Debt: Kings, “Brotherhood” by Genevieve Valentine

06/15: The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 9 by Leigh Butler

06/15: Review: Final Fantasy IV: The After Years by Matt London

06/15: Ancient Rockets: Nosferatu by Kage Baker

06/15: Exclusive Teaser for Darkness Calls by Marjorie M. Liu by Management Services

06/15: Remembering Stan Winston by geoffrey h goodwin

06/15: Marvel Previews: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz #7 by Management Services

06/14: The worst book I love: Robert Heinlein’s Friday by Jo Walton

06/13: Saturday Morning Cartoons: A Shakespearean couplet, “Next” and “Sonnet 138” by Irene Gallo

06/12: They are not welcome: IGN and District 9’s sexist contest by Torie Atkinson

06/12: LotR re-read: Two Towers III.1, “The Departure of Boromir” by Kate Nepveu

06/12: The Thrill of the Shelf by Jay Lake

06/12: The other woman: Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride by Jo Walton

06/12: Bob Eggleton: Free Wallpapers by Irene Gallo

06/12: The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 8 by Leigh Butler

06/12: Sarah Waters vs. Forbidden Planet: A Ghost Story by Robert Charles Wilson

06/11: The Repossession Mambo...in 60 Seconds by John Joseph Adams

06/11: Basic Geek Survival - Zombie 101 by Zachary Ricks

06/11: Why I am Over the Moon about Duncan Jones by Lou Anders

06/11: The Net of a Million Lies: Vernor Vinge’s A Fire Upon the Deep by Jo Walton

06/11: Star Trek Re-watch: “Court Martial” by Eugene Myers

06/11: Shaun Tan: Free Wallpapers by Irene Gallo

06/11: The Zen of Professor Nimbus: The Ubiquity of Chinese Takeout by Michael Sloan

06/10: Maurice Sendak: 81 years of wild rumpusing. by Irene Gallo

06/10: The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 7 by Leigh Butler

06/10: Web Round-Up: Contests, Giveaways, & Freebies Edition by Megan Messinger

06/10: Supernatural Thriller Personal Effects: Dark Art launches by Mur Lafferty

06/10: Licensed to sell weasels and jade earrings: The short stories of Lord Dunsany by Jo Walton

06/10: John Picacio: Free Wallpaper by Irene Gallo

06/10: Good News, Everyone! by Dayle McClintock

06/10: Ten Movies to Watch Instead of Star Trek by Genevieve Valentine

06/10: Excerpt from Green, by Jay Lake by Management Services

06/09: Star Trek Re-watch: “Tomorrow is Yesterday” by Torie Atkinson

06/09: This is Not a Game...in 60 Seconds by John Joseph Adams

06/09: The Success Trap by Jay Lake

06/09: Review: Tides from the New Worlds by Arachne Jericho

06/09: Dan Dos Santos: Free Wallpaper by Irene Gallo

06/09: The City Quiet as Death by Michael Bishop, Steven Utley and Jon Foster

06/08: Web Round-Up by Megan Messinger

06/08: Dean Koontz’s Relentless by Mark Graham

06/08: The Warded Man...in 60 Seconds by John Joseph Adams

06/08: The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 6 by Leigh Butler

06/08: Donato: Free wallpapers from a Hugo-Nominated Artist by Irene Gallo

06/08: Ancient Rockets: Prince Achmed by Kage Baker

06/08: Gender and glaciers: Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness by Jo Walton

06/08: Marvel Previews: X-Factor #44 by Management Services

06/08: Marvel Preview: Ender's Game: Recruiting Valentine #1 by Management Services

06/07: Undead on Arrival...in 60 Seconds by John Joseph Adams

06/07: Being clever with mythology: John James’s Votan and Not For All the Gold in Ireland by Jo Walton

06/06: Saturday Morning Cartoons: “Kunstbar” and “The Last Knit” by Irene Gallo

06/06: MoCCA Art Festival 2009 by Liz Gorinsky

06/05: The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 5 by Leigh Butler

06/05: Tales of Vesperia: The best next-gen JRPG out there by Torie Atkinson

06/05: The Ruins of Tomorrowland by Robert Charles Wilson

06/04: Star Trek Re-watch: “Arena” by Eugene Myers

06/04: Lise Myhre signing this weekend by Pablo Defendini

06/04: Faster Than Light at any speed by Jo Walton

06/04: Mathoms from the Time Closet (1) by Robert Charles Wilson

06/04: Interview: Kevin J. Anderson by John Ottinger III

06/04: The Dreaded Question by Kurt Huggins and Zelda Devon

06/03: Something old, something new? by Jo Walton

06/03: LotR re-read: Fellowship movie re-watch by Kate Nepveu

06/03: David Eddings (1931-2009), In Memoriam by Bruce Baugh

06/03: The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 4 by Leigh Butler

06/03: Where’s Waldo?: A Movie News Roundup (Rebooted) by Genevieve Valentine

06/03: Advertising dystopia: Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth’s The Space Merchants by Jo Walton

06/03: Dungeon Crawls to Hyperspace - Paul S. Kemp Interview by Jay Tomio

06/03: Review: Strange Angels by Matt London

06/03: The Redemption of Professor Nimbus Excerpt #1 by Management Services

06/02: Star Trek Re-watch: “The Squire of Gothos” by Torie Atkinson

06/02: The addiction of time travel: Daphne Du Maurier’s The House on the Strand by Jo Walton

06/02: Review: New Mutants #2 by Greg van Eekhout

06/02: Ten Fiction Editors Talk Shop in Clarkesworld Magazine by Pablo Defendini

06/02: What books haven’t you read? by Torie Atkinson

06/02: Julian Comstock, by Robert Charles Wilson: Chapters 1 and 2 by Management Services

06/01: You may not know it, but you want to read this: Francis Spufford’s Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin by Jo Walton

06/01: The Wheel of Time Re-read: The Fires of Heaven, Part 3 by Leigh Butler

06/01: Free Audiobook! Sun of Suns, by Karl Schroeder by Pablo Defendini

06/01: Ancient Rockets: Schatten by Kage Baker

06/01: Mapping The City & The City: an interview with China Miéville by Theresa DeLucci

06/01: I’m In Your Media, Divorcing Your Intent by Bruce Baugh