News and Blog Updates: June 22, 2008

Special Feature: No is no Special Feature for this week!
Sorry folks, I didn't receive any suggestions from local authors or artists, and I didn't have time to cook something up. If you are a local author or artist, and you have something you would like present as a special feature then drop me a line. Also, I am still looking for at least one assistant editor, so send me a message if you live in the Seattle area, and want to work on this and the Blogspot blog.


News Headlines:
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PNBA Announces Changes to Fall Trade Show
PNBA's Fall Trade Show in Portland will run Monday through Wednesday, Sept. 15-17, in 2008 rather than happening on the more traditional end-of-the-week pattern. The Trade Show, the largest of its kind held in the region, also moves to a new venue this year: the Portland Airport Holiday Inn and Convention Center.

According to PNBA director Thom Chambliss, the change of dates and venue should not impact attendance. Most booksellers, he said in a recent interview with Book Publishers Northwest (www.bpnw.org), prefer to come to a show during the week rather than over the weekend. PNBA is also trying to expand the show's audience by inviting librarians as well as booksellers to attend the education sessions and tour the trade show floor.

More information about PNBA's Fall Trade Show can be found at www.pnba.org.

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Are We Alone - New show not yet announced
Keep an eye on the Are We Alone site for news of the next episode. Until then you can listen to previous episodes at: http://radio.seti.org/ and be sure to check the Are We Alone Profile and Blog on MySpace.

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Alma Alexander - "Cybermage" available for preorder!
The third and final volume of the Worldweavers trilogy, "Cybermage", is available for pre-order here. They don't have a pic of the cover up yet, but you can go see a preview of that on my LiveJournal blog ( http://anghara.livejournal.com/ )!

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GIZMODO - 3,800-Piece Death Star Diorama Is Coolest Star Wars Lego Ever ( This is so cool, I am tempted to get a set just for myself! - Jim )


Headlines From SF News Sites:
Fruitless Recursion put up it's first posting. Check out this new site, io9 has news of Dollhouse and discovers the Magobot blog, Locus Online announces the Locus Awards Winners (and so do several other sites), Science Fiction Awards Watch posts that the Spectrum Awards is looking for judges, & check out The Website at the End of the Universe article "I'm a fan of the fanboys"

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Fruitless Recursion: Issue 0 - Russ and Kincaid, & Launch of Fruitless Recursion

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io9: The Circus Apes Of Science Are Mighty Healers Indeed [Found Footage], Hollywood Schemes To Destroy The Time Travel Genre [Rant], Dollhouse Is The Story Of Every Woman Today [Dollhouse], "Fiction Can Be A Mode of Social Change" in Cool New Anthology [Seeds Of Change], Robots Put The Moves On American Women in Swingin' 1952 [Retro Futurism], Mutant Chronicles: Where Ron Perlman Is Mankind's Holy Savior [Mutant Chronicles], Canada Needs (Space)Men. And Women. [Canadian Space Program], How Alternate Reality Helped Me Survive the Dentist [Mangobot], DIY = Dalek It Yourself [Dalek Lovers Of The World Unite], & Robot Finds Melting Ice on Mars [Mars Porn],

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Locus Online: Awards News: Locus Awards Winners ( "Michael Chabon, Terry Pratchett, China Miéville, Joe Hill, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, Michael Swanwick, Barry N. Malzberg, Shaun Tan, and others win Locus Awards" )

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Pantechnicon.net: PanCast 10: Turn Left

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Science Fiction Awards Watch: Spectrum Awards Want Judges, 2008 Locus Awards, & Harvey Nominees Announced

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SciFi Scanner: Drew Barrymore Is No Sigourney Weaver... Or Is She?, & Get Smart Review - Spy Spoof Only Updates '60s Series to 1997 Relevance

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SF Signal: WINNERS: 2008 Locus Awards, TOC: Best American Fantasy 2008, Lemony Snicket - 12 Books in 120 Seconds, SF Tidbits for 6/21/08, Dark Haven, This Week's Free Tor Book: In the Midnight Hour by Patti O'Shea, Friday YouTube: The Greatest American Hero, SF Tidbits for 6/20/08, & Tube Bits for 06/20/2007

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SFScope: Updates to Previously Published Articles (15-21 June 2008), Market Maven #3 now available, Juno Books temporarily closed to submissions, & Launch party and panel for Where Demented Wented: The Art and Comics of Rory Hayes

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The Website at the End of the Universe: I'm a fan of the fanboys


Selected Blog Updates:
Cynthia Leitich Smith has some "Cynsational News, Links & Giveaways", Fantagraphics Books is taking 15% off "Harvey Award nominees", there is poetry from Holly Cupala, Nicola Griffith took "The What Middle Earth race do you belong to Test" and discovered she's a Balrog, & Yasmine Galenorn posts "Friday Wrap-Up, Dragon Wytch Giveaway, & Question of the Week "

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Alethea Kontis - "History is Written by the Victors"

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Boxcar Astronaut - "More Astronaut Training"

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Chuck Palahniuk - "SURVIVOR T-Shirts Return... With A Raffle!"

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Cynthia Leitich Smith - "Cynsational News, Links & Giveaways"

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Dark Horse Comics - "UPDATED: VIDEO: GERARD WAY UMBRELLA ACADEMY SIGNING & INTERVIEW"

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David Louis Edelman - "It’s Not Real... It’s 'MultiReal'"

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Erica Spindler - "The Weirdness Continues in Canada"

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Fantagraphics Books - "Harvey Award nominees: 15% off!"

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HARPER PERENNIAL - "Citizen Vince by Jess Walter"

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Holly Cupala - "Poetry Friday: Liquid Voices"

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Horror Library Blog-O-Rama - "Passion By AJ Brown"

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Iron Sky - "Star Trek of God and Men"

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Janet Lee Carey - "NEW NOVEL UNDERWAY"

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JAMES AND DADDY - "Update 22nd June 2008"

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Jodi Lee - "Midsummer Musing"

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Louise Bohmer - Lachesis Publishing - "Lachesis: Stone Masters A Vampire’s Reckoning -- Review", & "Lachesis Author News -- More June Releases: War Paint, and Kaitlyn Wolfe"

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Maria V. Snyder - "Today only - A chance to win!"

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Marianne De Pierres - "Supanova Sydney 2008 pt 2", & "Supanova Sydney 2008"

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Nicola Griffith - "uh-oh, I’m a Balrog"

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Planet Pride - "Saturn’s ""Dualing"" Aurorae ", "Yep, it’s ice! ", "Papers from the week ending 20 June 2008", "Large ’Planet X’ May Lurk Beyond Pluto", "New Instrument Could Reconstruct Planetary and Moon Origins", "Closing in on Extrasolar Earths", & "Frigid Future for Ocean in Saturn’s Moon"

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Robert J Sawyer's Blog - "Hugo deadline approaching; free copies of nominees", "Hardcore Nerdity", " Le Rollback? Oui, monsieur!", & " The Logic of Life"

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Robin Hobb - "Farseer Art"

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Sherrilyn Kenyon - "The Ash Video"

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Spectra Pulse - "Read the first three chapters of Havemercy for free (before it goes on sale)!"

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Tor Books - "New Twitter Account"

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TRIAD Publishing Group - SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR TRIAD

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Yasmine Galenorn - "Friday Wrap-Up, Dragon Wytch Giveaway, & Question of the Week "