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    "id": 6532,
    "subject": "This Week in Google Alerts: misc",
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    "first": "2014-04-21T17:18:28+00:00",
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      "from": {
        "name": "Gwern Branwen",
        "address": "gwern at gwern.net"
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      "date": "2014-04-21T17:18:28+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: misc",
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          "text": "- Wolfe-related books:\nhttp://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Book-Review-Nebula-Awards-Showcase-2014-5402795.php\n\"Book Review: _Nebula Awards Showcase 2014_, Edited by Kij Johnson\""
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          "text": "Every year since 1966, The Nebula Awards Showcase has presented\nthe award winning and nominated stories, novellas and poems for the\nNebula Awards, which are presented by the Science Fiction & Fantasy\nWriters of America?. While Mike Resnick is the chair of the anthology\ncommittee, a different editor is chosen each time. This year's editor\nis Kij Johnson, author of three books and and associate director of\nthe Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of\nKansas....Another favorite in the collection is by new Grand Master\nGene Wolfe. The Grand Master is a lifetime achievement award and Wolfe\ncertainly has earned it. The story he selected to represent his work\nin the anthology is \"Christmas Inn,\" and it has the layers of meaning\nin a deceptively straight-forward narrative that one expects from\nWolfe...In addition to these entries, the anthology includes two\nessays about Gene Wolfe by Neil Gaiman and Michael Dirda and several\npoems which won specialty awards."
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          "text": "- A DJ names himself after _Latro in the Mist_:\nhttp://www.lasvegasweekly.com/nightlife/hot-spots/2014/apr/17/jason-derulo-tao-beach-rockabilly-aloe-blacc-beer/\n/ http://vegasseven.com/2014/04/16/holly-madisons-1923-premieres-chic-easy-vibe/"
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          "text": "Seven Lions at Marquee Dayclub A group of lions is called a\npride; former metal drummer Jeff Montalvo is now called Seven Lions, a\nname pulled from Gene Wolfe’s fantasy novel _Latro in the Mist_. The\nDJ/producer (and _Game of Thrones_ fan) will bring his progressive\ndubstep sound to a sunny setting this weekend at Cosmo’s party pool."
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          "text": "Bikinis + bass + fantasy-inspired electronic music, anyone? *April 19,\ndoors at 11 a.m., $30 men, $20 women.*\n- TLA review https://opionator.wordpress.com/2014/04/18/the-land-across-by-gene-wolfe/"
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          "text": "...Although this has moments of obscurity and some of the\npolitical subtext is slightly naive, this proves to be one of Wolfe’s\nmore accessible novels as we slowly discover more about this country\nand its political system. There are some quite pleasing aspects to the\ninvestigation itself and the process of deduction is moderately\nrigorous. I suppose one more cynical responses to this narrative might\nbe to see it as a dream. Our hero falls asleep as the train approaches\nthe border and what happens after that is just the product of his\nsubconscious. This would help explain the sometimes quite arbitrary\nway in which our narrator skips over events and sometimes refuses to\nelaborate on the bare bones of description offered. Since no country\nthis backward exists in Europe (North Korea might approximate this\nlevel of poverty both in political and material terms) and no-one\ntoday seriously believes in vampires or supernatural devices such as a\nhand of glory, we could safely treat this as an allegory. Yet, there\nalways comes a moment when our narrators wake. This could be when the\nborder guards invade his compartment on the train, or it might be as\nthe last page turns. You should read the book to find out. _The Land"
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          "text": "Across_ really does hold interest and arrives at an intriguing ending.\n- Reddit praises _Book of the New Sun_\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/23gqw2/what_are_peoples_opinions_of_gene_wolfes_book_of/\n- likewise on TBotNS:\nhttps://retrospeculative.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/retrospeculative-view-1980/"
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          "text": "gwern\nhttp://www.gwern.net"
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