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Via Deborah at Gnomic Utterance: Tu Publishing will be a small press “dedicated to publishing fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction for children and young adults inspired by many cultures from around the world….” They plan to start acquiring their first two books, which will be fantasy or science fiction, in January.
It’s exciting [...]

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I wanted to link to John Green’s recent post about genre because I think this thought is so damn neat:

The main reason books are organized the way they are is that it makes it easier to sell them at bookstores and circulate them at libraries. As acquiring (and reading) books become less physical experiences, we’ll [...]

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Here’s the Science Fiction & Fantasy list — damn, that’s a lot of books! I’m glad I’m not on the Round I panel! …Er, I mean, what a fabulous list. I’m so sorry I won’t be reading all of them. :) Good luck, Round I team!
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We were delighted to host the charming Shannon Hale a couple of weeks ago! She signed great heaping piles of books while chatting with our kids, gave a fabulous presentation to a room full of rapt middle schoolers, and even handled their slight rowdiness (born only of enthusiasm, I assure you) like a teaching [...]

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I’m not even going to try to summarize this one, except to say: interweaving of Snow White & Rose Red, Rumpelstiltskin, and probably some other tales into a lyrical novel with the most sexual creepiness I have had the misfortune to encounter in awhile. This is an excellent example of a book marketed to [...]

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Yes, I read a zombie novel! Call it YA science fiction and you can get me to read anything. In this version of the zombiepocalypse, the dead Returned and the world was overrun generations ago. Mary’s village beat back the zombies — the Unconsecrated, as they call them — far enough to [...]

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Good news: because what I need in life is another responsibility because I heart books and having opinions about them, I’m rocking the Cybils awards again this year! The Cybils are the Children’s and Young Adult Bloggers’ Literary Awards, and, as the name would imply, they are handed out by panels of bloggers like [...]

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Generate your own science fiction/fantasy plot! (Based on the original Electro-Plasmic Hydrocephalic Genre-Fiction Generator 2000.)
Is there something wrong with me that a lot of these actually sound worth reading?

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