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“Get your girly stuff out of my SF, for SF should be sciency, manly and hard”

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Cora

At Amazing Stories, Paul Cook rants about SF which is – at least in Paul Cook’s opinion – not SF. This includes such luminaries of the genre as Gene Wolfe (just Arthurian fantasy), Lois McMaster Bujold (romance – ick), Sharon … Continue reading →

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Plugs, superfast publishing and a new story: Old Mommark’s Tale

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Cora

First of all, I have a few links and plugs: I have mentioned Find, Read, Love, a site dedicated to the promotion and discovery of indie e-books, in these pages before. Find, Read, Love just had a great redesign, so … Continue reading →

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Great German Movies on YouTube

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Cora

In the comments to my last post, I recommended a bunch of full vintage German movies I found on YouTube to Sherwood. In case somebody else is interested as well, here is the list again, reorganized and expanded a bit. … Continue reading →

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Bloomsday Linkdump

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Cora

Large parts of Southern and Eastern Germany are still flooded, but luckily my feet are still dry. Though I was commissioned to create a PowerPoint presentation about flood clean-up efforts, particularly with regard to oil-polluted flood waters, for a conference … Continue reading →

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Last Ever Koniginnendag Linkdump

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Cora

I don’t know how much press the abdication of the Dutch Queen Beatrix in favour of her son Prince, now King Willem-Alexander has gotten in the English speaking world (the Guardian seemed to think Amanda Knox was more interesting, which … Continue reading →

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Some Reflections on Recent Awards and Nominations

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Cora

The past week has been a good one for awards and nominations, because the shortlists and winners for several more or less prestigious awards have been announced. First of all, the nominations for the 2013 Hugo Awards have been announced. … Continue reading →

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Otfried Preußler Remembered and the Nebula Awards

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Cora

On Monday, Otfried Preußler, writer of many popular German children’s books, died aged 89. Here is a more extensive obituary in German from the Süddeutsche Zeitung. I’m one of the German children and teens who grew up with Preußler’s stories … Continue reading →

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The First Gender Debate of the Year

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Cora

2013 is not even three weeks old and we’re already having the first gender balance in speculative fiction debate of the year. The debate was inadvertedly kicked off by Aidan Moher, when he posted about his reading goals for 2013 … Continue reading →

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Links for a Snow Day

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Cora

First of all, I added a few new haiku to The Haiku Zone in the top left corner of the page. There are now 23 rotating haiku featured. Meanwhile, I’ve also got a bunch of links to share: The Golden … Continue reading →

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Three Links and Two Plugs

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Cora

I’m still here for now. The big (or not so big) switchover will happen later today. I hope there won’t be any service interruptions here, though I managed to get the year’s first two translation jobs out of the door … Continue reading →

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