Comments on: Dec. 2009 giveaway promotion for bloggers http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/ Editorial blog of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:55:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Caitlin Scoggins http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-49442 Caitlin Scoggins Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:39:01 +0000 http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/#comment-49442 My dad would love this page, I'm sending him the link! :) My dad would love this page, I’m sending him the link! :)

]]> By: Belium Brownsea http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-46652 Belium Brownsea Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:07:55 +0000 http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/#comment-46652 Those books sound good - I think you might also like THE BROOMWHISTLE CHRONICLES. In it the reader gets to meet Uncle Pindby and his Detective Academy for Near and Distant Relations. It's a charming adventure. You also meet also THE DWILL - a curious new group on the scene of Science Fiction and Fiction and their improbable war against the creatures in MONTROLLA. It's a fun read. Those books sound good – I think you might also like THE BROOMWHISTLE CHRONICLES. In it the reader gets to meet Uncle Pindby and his Detective Academy for Near and Distant Relations. It’s a charming adventure. You also meet also THE DWILL – a curious new group on the scene of Science Fiction and Fiction and their improbable war against the creatures in MONTROLLA. It’s a fun read.

]]> By: Gordon Van Gelder http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-45199 Gordon Van Gelder Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:11:32 +0000 http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/#comment-45199 No, this promotion is over. --GVG No, this promotion is over.

–GVG

]]> By: W.L.Lilly http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-45095 W.L.Lilly Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:39:25 +0000 http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/#comment-45095 Is this still available anymore ? Is this still available anymore ?

]]> By: Alien Starshine http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-43598 Alien Starshine Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:40:52 +0000 http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/#comment-43598 To those brave hearts who have fewer inhibitions, or who have faced those fears and overcome them enough to enter that dark world of imagination, I lift a jeweled goblet in salute. Happy trails to you! May the Fates be with you! To those brave hearts who have fewer inhibitions, or who have faced those fears and overcome them enough to enter that dark world of imagination, I lift a jeweled goblet in salute. Happy trails to you! May the Fates be with you!

]]> By: Alien Starshine http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-43597 Alien Starshine Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:35:45 +0000 http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/#comment-43597 Okay, I've steered clear of the High Fantasy works. Mea culpa. Like Haggis, hummus, and certain forms of far-out jazz, HF is an acquired taste. I'd love to appreciate a steaming plate of sheep's gut as many of my forebears did (and do), and I'd like find a thrill in that dark world of Lords and their Ladies, get caught up in those pseudo-medieval conflicts that agonize them so, but try as I might my eyes will not stay on the page. Before I know it, I've slipped into naptime. Yet this didn't happen when I wandered into the novelet by Alex Irvine. Vivid description, excellent writing, and a great opening would have seduced me, but I was too scared. One could get lost in that world and never find a way out. Okay, I’ve steered clear of the High Fantasy works. Mea culpa. Like Haggis, hummus, and certain forms of far-out jazz, HF is an acquired taste. I’d love to appreciate a steaming plate of sheep’s gut as many of my forebears did (and do), and I’d like find a thrill in that dark world of Lords and their Ladies, get caught up in those pseudo-medieval conflicts that agonize them so, but try as I might my eyes will not stay on the page. Before I know it, I’ve slipped into naptime. Yet this didn’t happen when I wandered into the novelet by Alex Irvine. Vivid description, excellent writing, and a great opening would have seduced me, but I was too scared. One could get lost in that world and never find a way out.

]]> By: Alien Starshine http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-43596 Alien Starshine Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:15:33 +0000 http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/#comment-43596 If you like a taste of horror, try "The Economy of Vacuum," by Sarah Thomas, in which a female protagonist's downfall is brought about by her all-too-perky good health, her hubris her pride in being self-sufficient. LIke the bad King John, who "lived his life aloof," she needs no one. Ho, ho, my dearie dear... think again. Such a wealth of short stories, too many to comment on each. I loved Kathie Maio's column on "Films: Post-Modern Hasidism...With Puppets." A thoughtful assessment of the force that drives us to create. copy it into your journals. Memorize it. If you like a taste of horror, try “The Economy of Vacuum,” by Sarah Thomas, in which a female protagonist’s downfall is brought about by her all-too-perky good health, her hubris her pride in being self-sufficient. LIke the bad King John, who “lived his life aloof,” she needs no one. Ho, ho, my dearie dear… think again.

Such a wealth of short stories, too many to comment on each.

I loved Kathie Maio’s column on “Films: Post-Modern Hasidism…With Puppets.” A thoughtful assessment of the force that drives us to create. copy it into your journals. Memorize it.

]]> By: Alien Starshine http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-43594 Alien Starshine Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:02:43 +0000 http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/#comment-43594 I dived right into the Springer story, "Iris." It was wonderful, in the true sense of that word. Perfect for the Christmas season, it is touching, sensitive, and kind, kind in a time when kindness has come to seem quaint and old-fashioned, a disparaged quality at times when financial fears dominate our lives. "Iris" holds out the possibility of miracle and love. What is lost may be found in a strange and ghostly way. Kit Reed's short story is all bright, hip, ragged and raven. Smack-you-in-the face language flings you head first into a future world of the young. Like it or not, it sucks you in. and you like it. A tired 19th-century Christmas tale turns fast and funk. "the Blight Family Singers," his not one sour note. Pure funl I dived right into the Springer story, “Iris.” It was wonderful, in the true sense of that word. Perfect for the Christmas season, it is touching, sensitive, and kind, kind in a time when kindness has come to seem quaint and old-fashioned, a disparaged quality at times when financial fears dominate our lives. “Iris” holds out the possibility of miracle and love. What is lost may be found in a strange and ghostly way.

Kit Reed’s short story is all bright, hip, ragged and raven. Smack-you-in-the face language flings you head first into a future world of the young. Like it or not, it sucks you in. and you like it. A tired 19th-century Christmas tale turns fast and funk. “the Blight Family Singers,” his not one sour note. Pure funl

]]> By: Alien Starshine http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-43592 Alien Starshine Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:52:18 +0000 http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/#comment-43592 When I got my copy of the Dec. issue, I was in for a shock. Two shocks. First, at the price. My god, you could buy 12 inches of Books by the Foot for a few cents less than the cover price of a pulp magazine (used by interior designers, are these "Books" mere cardboard carcasses of books, I wonder?} The second shock was how good the stories in in this issue were. And how many. The issue is absolutely packed with fiction, enough variety to please most anyone. When I got my copy of the Dec. issue, I was in for a shock. Two shocks. First, at the price. My god, you could buy 12 inches of Books by the Foot for a few cents less than the cover price of a pulp magazine (used by interior designers, are these “Books” mere cardboard carcasses of books, I wonder?} The second shock was how good the stories in in this issue were. And how many. The issue is absolutely packed with fiction, enough variety to please most anyone.

]]> By: Alien Starshine http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/comment-page-1/#comment-43591 Alien Starshine Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:44:46 +0000 http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/blog/2009/10/08/dec-2009-giveaway-promotion-for-bloggers/#comment-43591 Thanks for the December issue. Here are some thoughts on it. I used to read science fiction with great enjoyment, but then serious life got in the way and I got too busy to do more than flip through the pages of an occasional book on my way to something more important. Yet, what could be more important than the questions presented by the sf field: time, space, identity, and the "what-the-hell-anyway" question of existence? Thanks for the December issue. Here are some thoughts on it.
I used to read science fiction with great enjoyment, but then serious life got in the way and I got too busy to do more than flip through the pages of an occasional book on my way to something more important. Yet, what could be more important than the questions presented by the sf field: time, space, identity, and the “what-the-hell-anyway” question of existence?

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