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One great golden eye turns toward the sunset, the other eyes the night. Flames lick the sky. The villagers will come with his tribute, his sacrifice. She will be young, pretty, adorned with gems and precious metals. These he will take. He is yet to decide if she will die.
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The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia |
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Peter Dendle. The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia. Jefferson, McFarland & Co., 2001. (Reprinted 2011.)
Dendle begins by stating, "The zombie remains, for the most part, unappreciated."
Well, eat my brains!
He also states that there are almost no serious studies of TV or movie zombies, and then goes into zombie history and evolution. Even I knew they originated in Haiti with voodoo, but upon reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, (see last month's review), was surprised that they eat brains. This turns out to be a recent development born in the film Return of the Living Dead (1985). So I was only twenty-six years behind in zombie lore.
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 Songs of the Earth (the Wild Hunt - Book One)
Elspeth Cooper
Gollancz (Hachette) - 2011
Born in 1968 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Elspeth Cooper now lives in Northumberland, UK.
Elspeth writes about herself, “My parents read me 'Ivanhoe' as a bedtime story which set the seed for a lifelong love of epic adventure.” Elspeth’s love of language, her eloquence and enviable ‘gift of the gab’ shine throughout her writing. The seed planted in childhood has sprouted, grown, and flourished.
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David F. Dufty. Lost in Transit: The strange story of the Philip K. Dick Android. Carlton, Melbourne University Press, 2011.
You probably already know that an android is not just any robot, but one that looks and behaves like a human being.
This book is about one created to look and talk like the author, Philip K. Dick. It was controlled by three computers and had information from all Dick's works and interviews.
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 AntiSF Radio Show listeners — you can leave your audio comments on our new voicemail and recorded comment number.
Ring us now and say a big hello to the SF world, make an audio comment, conduct your own review about a story, give us a shout and say "Bewdy Nuke", or interview yourself with your own questions.
You can also ring the number and read us a story, tell us a speculative joke, or give us a good old science fiction limerick in realtime Asimovian style.
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In a nutshell, AntipodeanSF brings the 'other' briefly, and sometimes horribly, into view (as most good SF does).
AntipodeanSF is devoted to the online publication of short-short science/speculative fiction stories (and occasionally other shorter material within that genre).
AntipodeanSF online is archived by the National Library of Australia, and you are able to view past issues by visiting the library on the Internet. Visit the PANDORA archive section.
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