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Uncommon interview: John Scalzi (A.B. ’91)
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Uncommon interview: John Scalzi (A.B. ’91) Aoril 30, 2013 By Sindhu Gnanasambandan The Chicago Maroon News Uncommon interview: John Scalzi (A.B. ’91) Scalzi discussed his time at the READ MORE
http://chicagomaroon.com/2013/04/30/uncommon-interview-john-scalzi-a-b...

Great Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Who Lived Abroad
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Great Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Who Lived Abroad June 21, 2012 By Charlie Jane Anders i09 Science fiction and fantasy are all about reaching beyond the horizon — so it's not surpri READ MORE
http://io9.com/5920311/great-science-fiction-and-fantasy-authors-who-l...

Does Cory Doctorow Think The Matrix Got It Wrong?
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Does Cory Doctorow Think The Matrix Got It Wrong? May 8,2012 By Erik Wecks Wired Cory Doctorow’s The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow is a little book divided into three parts. The first part is READ MORE
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/05/cory-doctorow-great-big-beautiful...

Great voices of science fiction
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Great voices of science fiction May 13, 2011 The Guardian In these interviews, recorded between 1987 and 2001, past masters of the genre discuss why they write SF, the future and how 'this thin READ MORE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-in...

William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211
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William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211 Summer 2011 by David Wallace-Wells Paris Review Vancouver, British Columbia, sits just on the far side of the American border, a green-glass model ci READ MORE
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6089/the-art-of-fiction-no-21...

C-3PO: Q&A with Anthony Daniels
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C-3PO: Q&A with Anthony Daniels November 9, 2011 Neela Debnath Independent Blogs Famous for his role as the irritable but endearing golden robot C-3PO in ‘Star Wars’, actor Anthony Danie READ MORE
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/11/09/qa-with-anthony-daniels/

Five Questions for Margaret Atwood
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Five Questions for Margaret Atwood October 17, 2011 By David Haglund Slate Margaret Atwood—the author of dozens of books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism—has not only been sho READ MORE
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/10/17/margaret_atwood_intervi...

Has Neal Stephenson become too accessible?
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Has Neal Stephenson become too accessible? September 18, 2011 By Andrew Leonard Salon The blurb on the back of my review copy of Neal Stephenson's new novel, "Reamde," described it as "his mos READ MORE
http://www.salon.com/books/science_fiction_and_fantasy/...

George RR Martin: Barbarians at the gate
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George RR Martin: Barbarians at the gate April 13, 2011 Alison Flood guardian.co.uk When does anticipation for a new book turn into something darker? For bestselling fantasy author George RR M READ MORE
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/13/george-rr-martin-game-thro...

Philip K. Dick, the sci-fi writer who fires Hollywood's imagination in film afte...
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Philip K. Dick, the sci-fi writer who fires Hollywood's imagination in film after film February 26, 2011 By Lewis Beale The Washington Post Philip K. Dick isn't really Hollywood's favorite de READ MORE
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011...

‘Source Code’ director Duncan Jones on science fiction and his famo...
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‘Source Code’ director Duncan Jones on science fiction and his famous father March 30, 2011 Ben Fritz Los Angeles Times Hero Complex Duncan Jones had entrée into the world of celebrities, READ MORE
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2011/03/30/source-code-director-duncan-...

A Bold Father of Science Fiction
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A Bold Father of Science Fiction February 9, 2011 Simply Robert Today’s Google Doodle reminded me that February 8 is, in fact, the birthday of one Jules Verne, author of such imaginative work READ MORE
http://simplyrobert.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/a-bold-father-of-science-...

Orson Scott Card's Three-Decade Run

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Orson Scott Card's Three-Decade Run January 21, 2011 By TOM SHIPPEY The Wall Street Journal Orson Scott Card, one of the greats of contemporary science fiction and fantasy, is best known for READ MORE
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703954004576089884087115...

Hugo Gernsback and the Invention of the Science Fiction Megatext
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Hugo Gernsback and the Invention of the Science Fiction Megatext January 13, 2011 Robert Bee Republibot.com Hugo Gernsback is simultaneously one of the most revered and despised figures in the READ MORE
http://www.republibot.com/content/hugo-gernsback-and-invention-science...

British writer China Mieville gives science fiction a sexier image

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British writer China Mieville gives science fiction a sexier image January 7, 2011 By Sarah Lyall The Record.com If your idea of a science fiction writer is a scrawny guy with computer-glow p READ MORE
http://www.therecord.com/living/article/318947--british-writer-china-m...

Arthur C. Clarke, Science Fiction and the Hazards of Prophecy
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Arthur C. Clarke, Science Fiction and the Hazards of Prophecy March 18, 2011 by Amal Siriwardena Sri Lanka Guardian (March 18, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) I met Arthur C. Clarke briefly when READ MORE
http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2011/03/arthur-c-clarke-science-fictio...

Before he wrote Candide, Voltaire helped pioneer science fiction
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Voyages Extraordinaires — Before he wrote the famous eighteenth-century novel Candide, Voltaire wrote non-fiction books about Newtonian physics, and fiction about giant aliens visiting Earth from Si READ MORE
http://io9.com/#!5699717/voltaires-secret-career-as-a-science-fiction-...

Philip K. Dick’s Masterpiece Years
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Philip K. Dick’s Masterpiece Years November 22, 2010 by Scott Timberg The New York Times POINT REYES STATION, Calif. — Half a century later, Anne R. Dick still remembers the sunny Octobe READ MORE
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/books/23philip.html...

Speaker celebrates Asimov’s fiction
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Speaker celebrates Asimov’s fiction October 27, 2010 By Jake Potts The Daily Athenaeum Science-fiction author James Gunn lectured on the work of fellow writer Isaac Asimov in the Mountainlai READ MORE
http://www.thedaonline.com/a-e/speaker-celebrates-asimov-s-fiction-1.1...

BEN BOVA: Sometimes even science fiction can be ahead of its time
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BEN BOVA: Sometimes even science fiction can be ahead of its time October 16, 2010 Ben Bova Naplesnews.com have published 124 books, and while you may think that’s a lot, I’m a piker comp READ MORE
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/oct/16/ben-bova-sometimes-even-sci...

How Robert A. Heinlein became one of science fiction's giants
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How Robert A. Heinlein became one of science fiction's giants October 2010 By Alan Cranis i09 t's hard to imagine a generation of science-fiction readers growing up without the looming presenc READ MORE
http://io9.com/5656404/how-robert-a-heinlein-became-one-of-science-fic...

Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin debate science fiction vs. "realism"
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Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin debate science fiction vs. "realism" September 28, 2010 By Claire L. Evans i09 Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood are two of SF's most famous living w READ MORE
http://io9.com/5650396/margaret-atwood-and-ursula-k-le-guin-debate-sci...

At MadCon, an ailing Harlan Ellison will say goodbye
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At MadCon, an ailing Harlan Ellison will say goodbye September 23, 2010 Josh Wimmer Isthmus Fans of fantastic fiction -- or just some of the finest damn writing to be put on paper -- take hee READ MORE
http://www.isthmus.com/isthmus/article.php...

Ray Bradbury at 90

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Ray Bradbury at 90 August 21, 2010 James E. Person Jr. National Review Online Roughly a decade before he created the Christmastime television movie The Homecoming and the long-running seri READ MORE
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/244266/ray-bradbury-90-james-e-...

Atwood On Science, Fiction And 'The Flood'
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Atwood On Science, Fiction And 'The Flood' August 20, 2010 NPR Margaret Atwood's new book The Year of the Flood describes a dystopic world full of evil corporations, barbaric criminals and scie READ MORE
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php...

Heinlein: Strangely Human
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Heinlein: Strangely Human August 11, 2010 by John Scalzi Tor.com Hello, all: I’m going to start off my contribution to this little online discussion of Heinlein by noting the gift this fi READ MORE
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/08/heinlein-strangely-human

Philip K. Dick's legacy of dreams
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Philip K. Dick's legacy of dreams August 9, 2010 by: Pravin Palande News Center Philip K. Dick is the inspiration for modern-day film makers like Nolan who have taken it upon themselves to que READ MORE
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/features/philip-k-dicks-legacydreams_...
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