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		<title>Book Review: In The Enclosure, Barry N. Malzberg (1973)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joachim Boaz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Lila M. Culhane&#8217;s cover for the 1973 edition) 4.5/5 (Very Good) Fresh off Malzberg&#8217;s intriguing young adult novel, Conversations (1975), I picked up a copy of the altogether more disturbing, transfixing, unnervingly prescient, and at moments, brilliant In The Enclosure (1972).  As with many of Malzberg&#8217;s oeuvre, the work is infused with a steady dose of metafiction &#8212; our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sciencefictionruminations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11304527&amp;post=5050&amp;subd=sciencefictionruminations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Eight Keys to Eden, Mark Clifton (1960)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joachim Boaz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Ralph Brillhart&#8217;s cover for the 1962 edition) 3.25/5 (Average) Mark Clifton&#8217;s readable and thought-provoking Eight Keys to Eden (1960) has been unfortunately overshadowed by his dismal failure, They&#8217;d Rather Be Right (1955) (co-written with Frank Riley), which is generally considered the worst novel ever to win the Hugo Award.  Although I wouldn&#8217;t classify Eight Keys [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sciencefictionruminations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11304527&amp;post=5037&amp;subd=sciencefictionruminations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Updates: Recent Science Fiction Acquisitions N. XXII (Cooper + Wilhelm + Kornbluth + Merril)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joachim Boaz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was so impressed with C. M. Kornbluth&#8217;s masterful collection The Explorers (1954) that I picked up a copy his 1958 collection A Mile Beyond the Moon (I own the hardback first edition but I prefer Powers&#8217; cover below).  Also, recently inspired (again) to read more 1960s works by female authors I bought a collection [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sciencefictionruminations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11304527&amp;post=5012&amp;subd=sciencefictionruminations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in Science Fiction Cover Art: Rocket, Field, Figure Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joachim Boaz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Rod Dunham&#8217;s cover for the 1953 edition of Planet of the Dreamers (1953), John D. MacDonald) First (archetypal) incarnation: rocket, field, figure.  Second incarnation: rocket with extra fins, field with unusual terrain, human staring at alien figure (s).  Repeat with virtually infinite variation. By far one of my favorite science fiction cover tropes, rocket/field/figure evokes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sciencefictionruminations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11304527&amp;post=4669&amp;subd=sciencefictionruminations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: The Man in the Maze, Robert Silverberg (1969)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joachim Boaz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Ron Walotsky&#8217;s cover for the 1978 edition) 4.5/5 (Very Good) The Man in the Maze (1969) is yet another glorious novel from Silverberg&#8217;s best period (1967-1975).  Silverberg adeptly recasts Sophocles&#8217; play Philoctetes (perhaps more of a loose inspiration) in an inventive  and realized science fiction future where man has newly come into contact with interstellar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sciencefictionruminations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11304527&amp;post=4891&amp;subd=sciencefictionruminations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Conversations, Barry N. Malzberg (1975)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joachim Boaz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Uncredited cover for the 1975 edition) 3.25/5 (Average) &#8220;Here I live.  Twenty up, twenty down, me in the middle with the Group.  Twenty up, broken gray and movement to the distance, twenty down to the landing, farther out the arena.  Gray up, landing down, me forever in the middle (1).&#8221; Malzberg&#8217;s novella (89 pages), Conversations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sciencefictionruminations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11304527&amp;post=4975&amp;subd=sciencefictionruminations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Updates: Recent Science Fiction Acquisitions N. XXI (Silverberg + Compton + Malzberg + Anderson)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joachim Boaz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few more Christmas gift card purchases&#8230; Dying Inside (1972) is often considered one of Silverberg&#8217;s best works and I can&#8217;t wait to read it (I will after my soon to be hellish weekend grading ~60 undergrad history papers).  Despite a painfully negative review on Amazon slamming Compton&#8217;s The Silent Multitude (1967) as a dull [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sciencefictionruminations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11304527&amp;post=4965&amp;subd=sciencefictionruminations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Updates: Visit + Submit to the BSFA Award Nominated Review Site SF Mistressworks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joachim Boaz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[    Hello all,  Ian Sales&#8217; wonderful SF Mistressworks (link), a review collating blog, has recently been nominated for the BSFA award (British Science Fiction Association) in the non-fiction category (link for the list).  I&#8217;ve submitted nine of my reviews of sci-fi works written by women over the last few months.  It was created in direct response to the absence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sciencefictionruminations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11304527&amp;post=4948&amp;subd=sciencefictionruminations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in (Bad) Science Fiction Cover Art: Miserable Monday No. III (Through the Purple Haze)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Joachim Boaz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Uncredited cover for the 1971 edition of Paradise is Not Enough (1970), Michael Elder) My third Miserable Monday installment! (part I, part II) Evil lurks behind purple clouds &#8212; a mascara-eyed man be-speckled with sparkling stars leers from the purple haze (the aphrodisiacal gases of paradise?), a goggled hero clutches his chest due to the horrific color [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sciencefictionruminations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11304527&amp;post=4928&amp;subd=sciencefictionruminations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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