Night Shade Books is having a sale:
Until 11:59pm Friday night (PST), you can get 50% off of your order by using the coupon code NSB0250. In order to take advantage of the coupon, you’ll have to order a minimum of four books. The coupon is good for both in-stock and forthcoming titles.
Oh, this is awesome. The Fantasy Novel Title Generator. Via Adam Stemple via Making Light.
Update: Also, The Plot Twist Generator. Via the On Spec blog.
You scored as Master Yoda. Yoda: The Master.
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Master Yoda |
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67% |
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Mace Windu |
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63% |
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Luke Skywalker |
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58% |
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Obi-Wan Kenobi |
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54% |
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Darth Maul |
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50% |
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Qui-Gon Jinn |
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42% |
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Count Dooku |
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42% |
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Darth Sidious |
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17% |
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Anakin Skywalker |
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13% |
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Darth Vader |
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0% |
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Random Jedi |
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0% |
What Force User Are You?
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SCI FI Wire just published a piece I wrote about Alan Dean Foster’s new novel, Sagramanda, which is forthcoming from Pyr in October.
The Spoken Alexandria Project has just made a podcast out of Tobias S. Buckell’s “Getting Past Being Joe Blow Neopro” articles, which originally appeared in Speculations.
Science fiction and fantasy author Tobias S. Buckell talks about a much-ignored period in the working writer’s career: after one makes that first major professional story sale, but before he or she has turned that exception into the rule. Buckell discusses “the benefits, the experience, and the dangers of being a Joe Blow Neopro,” along with “some strategies to move out of this stage in of our careers.”
Link.
When speaking of a supercharged something, such as a supercharged engine, why is it souped up instead of suped up? The engine is not comprised of, nor does it have anything to do with soup. If you’re going to contract supercharged, it would make more sense to do so as suped. So, what’s up with that?
SCI FI Wire just published a story I wrote about John Varley’s new novel, Red Lightning.
SCI FI Wire just published a story I wrote about Jay Lake’s new two-book deal with Tor.
Okay, so the album kicks ass. I don’t know about it being the “heaviest and most creatively aggressive outing in years!” though. I mean, yeah, it’s clearly heavier than Soundtrack to Your Escape, which is the previous album, but it’s just about as heavy as Reroute to Remain, which was the album before Soundtrack. It’s not exactly going back to the savagry of Lunar Strain, but it is pretty awesome. Which is not to say that the heaviness of an album determines how good it is; I’m just questioning that quote on the package. As I said, I’m quite happy with the album–I’ve listened to it a couple times tonight already, and I really dig it.
As for the DVD–it actually has “videos” for the whole album (except for one track, which isn’t a regular song), but I put videos in quotes for a reason. The DVD is basically like one long video of In Flames in the recording studio. It’s stylishly shot though, and looks pretty cool.
I recently wrote a story for SCI FI Wire about Tobias S. Buckell’s excellent first novel, Crystal Rain, but in case you all were too lazy to click over, I just wanted to point out that Toby has the prologue and first 14 chapters of the novel available on the book’s website for free download. Beware: if you go read them, you will be compelled to buy the book.
My review of the book should appear later this month at Intergalactic Medicine Show. But I’ll tell you now: it’s awesome.