A Valentine’s Day Guest Post: Tentacle Sex
Doesn’t everyone just love cephalopods? I find them to be a fascinating example of a body plan radically different from our own, the closest thing to a truly alien large metazoan on our planet.
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Quick Updates for 2011-02-14
Congratulations to SFWA member @nalohopkinson who will be an Prof. specializing in SF & fantasy at the UC Riverside. http://3.ly/cTYw
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Quick Updates for 2011-02-13
Member News for Eugene Myers, Brit Mandelo, Karen Azinger, Steve Feldberg, Tony Pi, Yasmine Galenorn, Jennifer Jackson, Nancy Kress, and Jack Skillingstead.
Information Center, The SFWA BlogKey Conditions for Suspense:
Key Conditions for Suspense:
Part 9 – character draws 9-10
In my last two posts, I identified a number of things that make people and, therefore, characters interesting to us. In this post, I’ll present the last two draws and introduce the next condition for reader suspense.
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@lightspeedmag Technically, you only become eligible in June. It still requires a board vote. #
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SFWA member @arcaedia has been promoted to VP at Donald Maass Literary Agency, where she will continue to represent talented
Information Center, The SFWA BlogTen Terrific Resources for
Ten Terrific Resources for
Writing Space-Based Hard Science Fiction
I would like to share ten resources, more or less, that I think are really terrific when it comes to getting the science right. These will be biased toward my areas of expertise, and will span books, websites, and software. Old-fashioned books first.
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WSFA Award Announced
The Washington Science Fiction Association has established a literary award to honor the work done by small presses in promoting and preserving science fiction.
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Quick Updates for 2011-02-09
Member News for Gene Twaronite, Alyxandra Harvey, Sarah Monette, Amy Treadwell, Vera Nazarian, Allan Cole, Brad Beaulieu, Kate Milford, Lena Coakley, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Marcy Rockwell, Rosemary Jones, David Levine and John Cleaver.
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SFWA member @KateMilford is pleased that her novel THE BONESHAKER made Locus's 2010 recommended YA reading list. # SFWA member
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Help a SFWA author research: @johncleaver needs some fake swear words for his new series: http://is.gd/PIGUi4 # Hey, SFWA members.
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In Memoriam: Brian Jacques
British author Brian Jacques (b.June 15, 1939) died on February 5, 2011 following emergency surgery for an aortic aneurysm. Jacques published his juvenile novel Redwall, about a collection of anthropomorphic mice, badgers, voles, and other creatures, in 1986.