Felicity Savage is disappointed in us

Sure, there are some questionable elements in Vox Day's essays but the important thing is he isn't a potty-mouth.

MPR for Sh*tt*rly

Because your tears are delicious to me

But this life is abiotic–not like life as we know it. It doesn’t synthesize sunlight; it thrives in extreme environments.

Generalizing

Groucho is smart enough to know he can use the same method he uses to shut the closet door on other cats to close the self-latching door of the cat carrier on them as well.

Leafs to suck slightly less?

If new president Tim Leiweke and team ownership leave Dave Nonis alone, the Leafs could be on the verge of another golden era, at least by their own standards.

What if Don Draper

Instead of fast-talking his way into a job at Sterling Cooper had instead finagled his way into a position as a field agent for U.N.C.L.E.?

The Acting Chair Department of English of the University of Toronto on Gilmour

Dear Colleagues:

Like all those of you who have seen David Gilmour's comments in the Hazlitt magazine on teaching literature at U of T, I was appalled and deeply upset. They constitute a travesty of all we stand for. I will be pursuing the matter further today. There seem to me two points that immediately need to be emphasized. First, David Gilmour is not a member of the Department of English at the University of Toronto, and second, his ill-informed and offensive views could not be less representative of the passionately held values and actual practices of the Department. Please feel free to circulate this message as you think appropriate.

Many of you have already been trying to set the record straight -- many thanks to Nick Mount, Heather Murray, Alex Gillespie, Michael Cobb, Holger Syme, and Katie Larson.

Best, Paul

Paul Stevens

Professor and Acting Chair Department of English

University of Toronto

Michael Ignatieff

The punchline to joke nobody wanted to hear.

The Science Fiction Book Club Reviews Revisited: 1989 (third quarter)

Lists courtesy of Andrew Wheeler.

Contents for anthologies and omnibuses from the Locus Index
to Science Fiction www.locusmag.com/index/
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Clarkesworld Podcast September 2010: The Cull (Robert Reed)

The Cull (Robert Reed)

Read by Kate Baker

In one of the those horribly constrained (and probably doomed) settings SF authors love so much, a "doctor" (a medical cyborg) has to deal with young Orlando, who is graduating from annoyance to menace.

Spoilers
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