Tag Archives: Doctor Who

The 2012 Hugo Awards and remembering Dr. Sommer

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Cora

Over at the Pegasus Pulp blog, I have a round-up of links about the current uproar about fake and paid for reviews. L.G. Gale has a good post about what SFF writers can learn from the romance genre. Found via … Continue reading →

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Events, Plugs and Links

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Cora

If you’re in the Bremen area, Elke Marion Weiss will be presenting her new crime novel Die ungewisse Reise nach Samarkand at the Krimibibliothek at the Bremer Stadtbibliothek at 6:30 tonight. Heartache is the featured new release at the Short … Continue reading →

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Olympic Linkdump

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Cora

Here is an interesting article at Ghostwoods, which describes Michael Moorcock’s method for writing a novel in a single weekend and also goes into Lester Dent’s pulp fiction masterplot (which has been linked in the sidebar pretty much since I … Continue reading →

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Nora Ephron, Spaceballs and the Golden Age of Romantic Comedy

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Cora

I’ve been busy these past few days prepping the latest Pegasus Pulp release (there should be an announcement tomorrow), hence the lack of posts. While I was otherwise occupied, Germany lost the Euro 2012 semi-finale to Italy 1:2 and the … Continue reading →

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The New Yorker does SF, Doctor Who does the Olympics, a rightwing thinktank does Game of Thrones – all that and the German fixed book price agreement, too

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Cora

As already reported, we’re having our annual speculative versus literary fiction discussion, courtesy of The New Yorker, which has designated its current issue “the science fiction issue”. According to the table of contents, “science fiction issue” means a mix of … Continue reading →

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Pentecost Monday Linkdump

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Cora

It’s the long Pentecost/Whitsun weekend in Germany and the long Memorial Day weekend in the US, plus plenty of people seem to be at some con or another, so the Internet has been a bit quiet of late. Nonetheless, I … Continue reading →

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May Day Links with Bonus Cover

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Cora

Today was May Day a.k.a. Labour Day, which is a public holiday practically everywhere except for the US. We took the opportunity for a day trip to Celle, a town some 120 kilometers southeast of Bremen. So expect photos of … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on the 2012 Hugo Awards Nominations

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Cora

The nominations for the 2012 Hugo Awards have been announced just in time for Easter with lots of “What the fuck?” nominations mixed in with the good choices. First of all, the good thing is that there are women nominees … Continue reading →

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Back from Yorkshire – and a Linkdump

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Cora

I’m back from Yorkshire. Well, actually I got back yesterday, but I was too tired to blog or do more than catch up with my e-mails. There will be photos in the next few days, but for now here are … Continue reading →

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In Yorkshire

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Cora

As you can tell by this post, I arrived safely here in Yorkshire, though I ended up in the last two rows of a KLM Fokker 70 twice in a row. The last two or three rows of a Fokker … Continue reading →

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