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		<title>Flash reviews &#8212; November &#8216;09</title>
		<link>http://scifistandpoint.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/flash-reviews-november-09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frederick Pohl]]></category>
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Title:  Breaking Point
Author:  James E. Gunn
Year:  1972
Rating:  3 out of 5 stars
Short story collection with your standard range of quality:  some good ones, some average ones, some poor ones.  Solid reading, but nothing overly memorable.
Title:  In the Problem Pit
Author:  Frederick Pohl
Year:  1976
Rating:  3 out of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scifistandpoint.wordpress.com&blog=3434671&post=2329&subd=scifistandpoint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nojiri offers a solid first contact story in Usurper</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
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Something bizarre, bigger than anyone could ever build, was protruding from the surface of Mercury.  She was not sure whom to tell.  She was not even sure she should tell anybody at all.
Title:  Usurper of the Sun
Author:  Housuke Nojiri
Year:  2002
Rating:  3 out of 5 stars
VIZ Media&#8217;s Haikasoru imprint has, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scifistandpoint.wordpress.com&blog=3434671&post=2293&subd=scifistandpoint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting an old favorite &#8212; Friedman&#8217;s In Conquest Born</title>
		<link>http://scifistandpoint.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/revisiting-an-old-favorite-friedmans-in-conquest-born/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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The K&#8217;airth-v&#8217;sa &#8212; literally, &#8220;mate of the private war&#8221; &#8212; was as attractive to the Braxaná warrior as he or she was deadly.  And it could be a woman.  Yes, though years of male dominance had buried that fact.  And if any woman deserved the title, this one certainly did.
Title:  In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scifistandpoint.wordpress.com&blog=3434671&post=2301&subd=scifistandpoint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The secret history of science fiction; or, trying to please mainstream readers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Molly Gloss]]></category>
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What we hope to present in this anthology is an alternative vision of sf from the 1970&#8217;s to the present, one in which it becomes evident that the literary potential of sf was not squandered.
Title:  The Secret History of Science Fiction
Editors:  James Patrick Kelly, John Kessel
Year:  2009
Rating:  2 out of 5 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scifistandpoint.wordpress.com&blog=3434671&post=2274&subd=scifistandpoint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Through the wormhole &#8212; 10/8/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[District Nine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago Kim Stanley Robinson wrote an article for New Scientist, Science fiction: the stories of now.  It&#8217;s a stirring defense of the genre and its importance in today&#8217;s world.  Robinson criticizes the jurors of Britain&#8217;s Booker award for judging &#8220;in ignorance&#8221; when they routinely overlook sf.  You tell &#8216;em, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scifistandpoint.wordpress.com&blog=3434671&post=2268&subd=scifistandpoint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Transition SF?  Fantasy?  Slipstream?  Philosophy?  Maybe all of the above.</title>
		<link>http://scifistandpoint.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/is-this-sf-fantasy-slipstream-philosophy-maybe-all-of-the-above/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill the sci-fi guy</dc:creator>
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We work to make the many worlds better.
There.  That&#8217;s the official line.
Title:  Transition
Author:  Iain M. Banks
Year:  2009
Rating:  3 out of 5 stars
At first glance, the latest novel from Banks is a conspiracy thriller set against the context of a familiar science fiction concept:  the existence of a multiverse containing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scifistandpoint.wordpress.com&blog=3434671&post=2244&subd=scifistandpoint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flash reviews &#8212; September &#8216;09</title>
		<link>http://scifistandpoint.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/flash-reviews-september-09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill the sci-fi guy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title:  The Gold at the Starbow&#8217;s End
Author:  Frederik Pohl
Year:  1972
Rating:  3 out of 5 stars
A very decent collection of stories, most of them somewhat long since there are only five in total.  Not really a bad story in the bunch; I enjoyed them all, to varying degrees.  Nothing here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scifistandpoint.wordpress.com&blog=3434671&post=2238&subd=scifistandpoint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Immortality and its discontents</title>
		<link>http://scifistandpoint.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/immortality-and-its-discontents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill the sci-fi guy</dc:creator>
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It was the same dream for everyone.  The dream was complex, but the dream in its most fundamental form was a single thought, a question posed in six billion human skulls and more than three thousand languages.
The question was:  Do you want to live?
Title:  The Harvest
Author:  Robert Charles Wilson
Year:  1992
Rating: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scifistandpoint.wordpress.com&blog=3434671&post=2192&subd=scifistandpoint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Through the wormhole 9/13/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linky time again.
Sci Fi Wire has a map of 68 must-see sci-fi sites around the U.S. (with a few in Canada as well).  Museums, buildings and locations used in movies, that sort of thing.  Some of them are pretty lame; and hey, what&#8217;s The Texas Chainsaw Massaacre doing in there?  The Midwest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scifistandpoint.wordpress.com&blog=3434671&post=2223&subd=scifistandpoint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A galaxy full of SF/F/H sites</title>
		<link>http://scifistandpoint.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/a-galaxy-full-of-sffh-blogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess I&#8217;m a little late in posting this, but here I am, doing my duty (I&#8217;m such a damned procrastinator).  John at Grasping for the Wind went to the trouble of compiling this massive list of sites/blogs that include, as at least a portion of their mission, reviews of science fiction and/or fantasy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scifistandpoint.wordpress.com&blog=3434671&post=2214&subd=scifistandpoint&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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