News and Blog Updates: April 24, 2008

News Headlines:
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Emerald City ComiCon - JOSH MEDORS BENEFIT AUCTION AT UPCOMING EMERALD CITY COMICON
Check out the Emerald City ComiCon website for all the information: http://www.emeraldcitycomicon.com/

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Are We Alone - "Sex: From Beginning to End"
You can listen to this and other episodes at: http://radio.seti.org/


Headlines From SF News Sites:
We have some interesting headlines here folks: Spaghetti Space Opera's, Hasselhoff in eyeliner, Space Westerns, several awards posts, Blake's 7 news, and Nimoy in Vegas.

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io9: Spaghetti Space Opera's Greatest Moment, Best Novels Of 2007 Include Alternate Present And Near Future Stories (Locus Awards news), & Blake's 7 Poised To Launch A New Rebellion

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RevolutionSF: RevolutionSF Newsblast: Marvel Apes, Ender's Game, Watchmen (News), & Hobbit Movie: Director Escapes To New Zealand (News)

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Science Fiction Awards Watch: Locus Awards Finalists, & Constellation Awards Nominees

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Science Fiction Buzz: Leonard Nimoy Beams Into The Official Star Trek Con in Vegas

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SFScope: Pyr's forthcoming books, SpaceWesterns goes Galactic, Laura Anne Gilman sells new fantasy trilogy to Pocket, & Philadelpahia Fantastic Reading Series finds a new home

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The Website at the End of the Universe: Astrophysicist Hawking says alien life is likely, & Sky to reboot cult favourite Blake's 7


Selected Blog Updates:
There's some really cool stuff going on with the blogs here on MS. First off, Apex has a $1.00 promotion going on, Seth Shostak from "Are We Alone" posts about the "Phoenix Lights" event of last Monday, Cynthia Leitich Smith has four great blogs full of news and interviews, there a bunch of new stuff from Dark Horse, Kevin J. Anderson has a post on the LA Times Festival of Books, there's a ton of great blogs from Cory Doctorow, Lois McMaster Bujold posts a link for a review, Nicola Griffith also posts a link to her Gemaecca blog about how the work her "Hild" is going, Planet Pride is going strong with lots of space news, Sherrilyn Kenyon writers about her experiences at the New York Comic Con, and Tor Books has even more news about Cory Dotorow. Enjoy!

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Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest - "Apex Digest for a buck", & "Conglomeration - Post Analysis "

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Are We Alone? - "Phoenix Lights "

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Cynthia Leitich Smith - "Author-Illustrator Interview: Thomas Aquinas Maguire on A Growling Place ", "Author Interview: Jennifer Ziegler on How Not To Be Popular ", "Author Interview: Margaret Peterson Haddix on Found (The Missing: Book 1) ", & "Celebrated Children’s Authors & Artists Share Their Dreams in New Campaign "

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Dark Horse Comics - "New Titles & Products shipping this week from Dark Horse 4/23", & "Dark Horse Searches for New Talent at Stumptown Comics Fest "

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David Louis Edelman - "Nick Sagan Gives Advance Praise for “MultiReal” "

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Jenna Black - "Interview with Tate Hallaway "

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Karina L. Fabian - "Catholic Writers Conference Online Registration Ends Friday "

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Kevin J Anderson - "LA TIMES FESTIVAL OF BOOKS "

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Lisa Mantchev - "Pixel-Stained Technopeanantry! "

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Little Brother by Cory Doctorow - Six new blogs from Cory Doctorow including: "How to block/kill RFID chips ", "5 Days to Go...25 Things You’ll Find in Little Brother continues with number 5 ", &
"How boost your electrics tools "

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Lois McMaster Bujold - "informative Passage review"

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Louise Bohmer - Lachesis Publishing - "A Nation of Expendables for sale at Fictionwise "

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Nicola Griffith - "charty process porn "

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Paul Halpern - "Clockstopping: Bart, Borges and Bloch "

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Phoebe Matthews - "New book cover "

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Planet Pride - "Pulling Away ", "Dione: North Polar View ", "Dawn Journal: One AU from Earth ", "Mysterious ’bright young things’ found in solar system ", "Billions and Billions of Earthlike Planets? ", "Roche Division ", & "Soaring Over Rhea "

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Robert J Sawyer's Blog - Calculating God and others at Audible.com, & RJS e-Mail Newsletter,

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Rosemary Jones - "What can you do with a bookplate? "

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Sherrilyn Kenyon - "The disaster that is me :) "

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Tor Books - "Tor Podcasting MySpace Page ", "The Incredible Shrinking Man remake in negotiations ", & "Learn how to make the projects featured in Cory Doctorow’s, Little Brother "

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Tor Teen - "Learn how to make the projects featured in Cory Doctorow’s, Little Brother ", & "Tor can now be found on YouTube "

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Tor.com - "Sun of Suns by Karl Schroeder: Preview "

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Willie Meikle - "Another Pro Sale to Wrong World "

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Writer's Digest - "The WD Interview: Sara Gruen "