Noticias literatura 18-6

Ediciones Irreverentes (Irreverent Editions) introduces two science fiction novels & the new issue of Valinor Magazine is available for free download.

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Indie Dragons Still Spouting Fire!

Dragons were given their title sometime around the13th century, their name coming from the Greek word δράκων, (drakon) meaning “giant seafish”. Legends in both the Orient and Europe spotlighted these fire breathing serpentine creatures. Heroes […]

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Self-publishing Competitions: Leave Your Elves At Home

The enormous media interest in self-publishing has been fired by the breakthrough success of Wool by Hugh Howey, so SF is leading the way in this field. It’s strange therefore to hear the Guardian’s flamboyant Books section editor Claire Armistead warning that “It’s all too easy to dismiss the self-publishing sector as a wilderness of elves, sex and high-school romcoms”.

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Dammit, Jim, I’m A Writer — Not A Mathematician!

Why is Dumas’ novel titled The Three Muskateers when there are four main characters and they use swords? Why is local channel 4 shown on cable channel 25? How many Dalmatians did Cruella de Ville actually dognap? The titular 101…or was it more…or less? Something funny is going on with our math and Buddy wants to know what it is. Meanwhile, it’s giving him such a headache…!

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Review – The Kings of Eternity by Eric Brown

The Kings of Eternity is a novel with one foot happily in the mainstream and one in genre. As such it is a book which may baffle those who don’t ‘get it’; a novel written unapologetically for those of us who have grown-up with genre fiction but have also read and appreciate ‘literary’ fiction.

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Noticias Literatura 22-1-14

Noticias Literatura: Nuevo número de la revista Buk, entrevista podcast con Mariano Villarreal y Felicidad Martínez y Juan Miguel Aguilera nueva novela.

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Review – Voyages into the Deep

The works of Jules Verne is synonymous with the classic stories represented in Amazing Stories over the many years. So any time the topic of Verne arises, the interest from the true fan will always be peaked. The graphic novel Voyages into the Deep – The Saga of Jules Verne and Captain Nemo peaked that interest.

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