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	<title>Worlds Without End Blog</title>
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	<description>Science Fiction, Fantasy &#38; Horror Books</description>
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		<title>Darker Man of Steel Trailer Released</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/darker-man-of-steel-trailer-released/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/darker-man-of-steel-trailer-released/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 13:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jynnantonnyx</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film and TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Superman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The latest trailer for Man of Steel focuses more on Zod and his plans. All this dark violence and inspirational speeches from Russell Crowe, too?]]></description>
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		<title>WoGF Review: Geek Love by Katherine Dunn</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/wogf-review-geek-love-by-katherine-dunn/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/wogf-review-geek-love-by-katherine-dunn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mellyn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katherine Dunn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The word that comes to mind, when it comes to Geek Love, is disturbing.

Binewski's Fabulon is a traveling carnival owned by Aloysius 'Al' Binewski. It was originally founded by his father, referred to only as Grandpa, who has long since been cremated. His ashes continue on, though, as the silver urn containing them is bolted to the hood of the carnival's generator truck.]]></description>
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		<title>WoGF Review: The Female Man by Joanna Russ</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/wogf-review-the-female-man-by-joanna-russ/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/wogf-review-the-female-man-by-joanna-russ/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 22:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Triseult</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joanna Russ]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If I taught SF literature in high school, I'd make The Female Man mandatory reading, knowing my students would hate me for it. It's not an easy book by any means; its structure is complex and obfuscated on purpose, and its subject matter is uncomfortable and necessary. But really, this is why SF exists in the first place.

The book has been heralded as the quintessential feminist SF, and it saddens me to know that this automatically reduces its reach. It's true that the book is singularly concerned with subjects articulated by feminism, but I think it should be required reading for everyone of either gender. I wish I could go back in time and force fifteen year-old me to read this. And boy, is there a lot of piss and vinegar in this book. Sometimes the anger just radiates off the page. It's a visceral book of raw nerves and flayed skin. It's amazing.]]></description>
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		<title>Star Wars Filibuster&#8230; Animated!</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/star-wars-filibuster-animated/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/star-wars-filibuster-animated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 19:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Post</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film and TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Star Wars]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is too cool! Someone took Patton Oswalt&#8217;s rant on Parks and Recreation and added a bit of animation to that sucker.]]></description>
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		<title>WoGF Review: Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/wogf-review-sarah-canary-by-karen-joy-fowler/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/wogf-review-sarah-canary-by-karen-joy-fowler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 03:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thrak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karen Joy Fowler]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/?p=8588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["It might even be true. It was not for him to know. A man says something. Sometimes it turns out to be the truth, but this has nothing to do with the man who says it. What we say occupies a very thin surface, like the skin over a body of water. Beneath this, through the water itself, is what we see, sometimes clearly if the water is calm, sometimes vaguely if the water is troubled, and we imagine this vision to be the truth, clear or vague. But beneath this is yet another level. This is the level of what is and this level has nothing to do with what we say or what we see."

'Sarah Canary' is one of SF's most powerful explorations of the Other. Fittingly for a book about First Contact, it deals with alienation. But Sarah Canary doesn't act as a filter to give us a fresh perspective on humanity as much as a focal point that draws in the novel's motley crew of disenfranchised. Sarah Canary isn't really the protagonist; she doesn't actually do much, we never find out anything about her motivations or thoughts, and Fowler deliberately leaves her true nature ambiguous. She's a walking Outside Context Problem, and how the various characters perceive and react to her reveals the prejudices, concerns and fears of the 1870s America she mysteriously appears in.]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Nebula Award Winner!</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/2012-nebula-award-winner/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/2012-nebula-award-winner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 05:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Post</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nebula Award]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 Nebula Awards were announced last night at the Forty-Eighth Nebula Awards Weekend in San Jose, CA, hosted by the SWFA. The winner for best novel is Kim Stanley Robinson&#8217;s 2312. The other nominees were: Throne of the Crescent Moon – Saladin Ahmed (DAW; Gollancz &#8217;13) Ironskin – Tina Connolly (Tor) The Killing Moon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Star Trek Into Darkness &#8211; Review</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/star-trek-into-darkness-review/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/star-trek-into-darkness-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 21:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jynnantonnyx</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film and TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Star Trek]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I am surprised how little improvement there has been in human evolution. Oh, there has been technical advancement, but how little man himself has changed.&#8221; I&#8217;m just going to get the most annoying part of this out of the way: Benedict Cumberbatch plays the role of Khan Noonien Singh. I do not consider this a spoiler, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WoGF Review: Doomsday Book by Connie Willis</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/wogf-review-doomsday-book-by-connie-willis/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/wogf-review-doomsday-book-by-connie-willis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 14:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brett72</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connie Willis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The two main characters of the Doomsday Book are Kivrin, a graduate student, and Mr. Dunworthy, a university professor. Kivrin has always wanted to travel to the Middle Ages, but that time period is off-limits due to the danger posed. An ambitious professor seizes his chance during Christmas break, when he is functioning as acting head of the department, opens the Middle Ages and organizes a trip to send Kivrin to England in 1320. Mr. Dunworthy, an expert in the 20th century and Kivrin's former mentor, opposes the trip to no avail. As soon as Kivrin arrives in the past she comes down with a mysterious illness. Back in the 22nd century the tech working the trip falls ill with a similar sickness. The sickness spreads and soon becomes an epidemic, then a pandemic.]]></description>
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		<title>N. K. Jemisin Book Drawing Winners!</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/n-k-jemisin-book-drawing-winners/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/n-k-jemisin-book-drawing-winners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 05:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>icowrich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/?p=8509</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The N. K. Jemisin free books re-tweet contest is now closed. We had, in all, 54 entries. After copying all names into a spreadsheet and assigning each one a number, we used a random number generator to select our first and second place winners. For the record, the numbers we generated were 10 and 16. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WoGF Review: Cyber Circus by Kim Lakin-Smith</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/wogf-review-cyber-circus-by-kim-lakin-smith/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/wogf-review-cyber-circus-by-kim-lakin-smith/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 04:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bazhsw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Lakin-Smith]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/?p=8508</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cyber Circus is a carnival featuring a range of bizarre characters and oddities as it travels across Sore Earth in a steam powered airship.  The novel is very much in the vein of the 'road movie' as the Circus moves from town to town whilst being pursued by a pimp character (D'Angelus) trying to reacquire one of the acts (and 'obtain' another) for his brothel.

That set-up may well seem seedy and indeed it is.  There is a sickness to the culture of Sore Earth and on the face of things the inhabitants have very few redeeming features with individuals falling into categories of 'exploited' or 'exploiter' (and it could be argued some fitting into both).]]></description>
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		<title>Riddick &#8211; First Trailer</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/riddick-first-trailer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/riddick-first-trailer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jynnantonnyx</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film and TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Riddick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trailers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have to say, this new Riddick movie looks a whole lot like a remake of Pitch Black. Any word on how much this will tie into the Riddick Trilogy?]]></description>
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		<title>WoGF Review: Agatha H and the Airship City by Phil and Kaja Foglio</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/wogf-review-agatha-h-and-the-airship-city-by-phil-and-kaja-foglio/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/wogf-review-agatha-h-and-the-airship-city-by-phil-and-kaja-foglio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 01:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lynnsbooks</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/?p=8480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For Lynn Williams (lynnsbooks) books are much more than a hobby or a pastime they&#8217;re really an obsession. If she&#8217;s not reading a book, she&#8217;s talking about books on her blog, Lynn&#8217;s Book Blog, or deciding which books to buy next. Lynn reads all sorts of books, sometimes straying into YA, but her first love [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. &#8211; Full Trailer</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-full-trailer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-full-trailer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 21:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Post</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film and TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trailers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/?p=8475</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Somebody really wanted our initials to spell out &#8216;S.H.I.E.L.D.&#8217;&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>“You just can&#8217;t differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.” &#8211; Isaac Asimov</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/8439/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/8439/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 17:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>icowrich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science Fact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robots]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From our science-fact department:  Here&#8217;s yet another example of increasingly human-like abilities that our robots are acquiring.  Even Asimov would be impressed.  This one is designed to test out hazmat suits and the like, so it doesn&#8217;t really need to stand on its own.  Somehow that makes me feel safer&#8230; If this puts you in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ray Harryhausen: A Brief Appreciation</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/ray-harryhausen-a-brief-appreciation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/ray-harryhausen-a-brief-appreciation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jynnantonnyx</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film and TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gareth Edwards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ray Harryhausen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/?p=8455</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a week since special effects legend Ray Harryhausen passed. Like so many others of my and earlier generations, Harryhausen&#8217;s classic stop-motion effects were the movie effects we grew up with. Who else could make a metal giant so terrifying, a sword-wielding skeleton so dangerous, or a gorgon so freakishly crowned? Gareth Edwards of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Authentic Space Oddity</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/an-authentic-space-oddity/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/an-authentic-space-oddity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>icowrich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science Fact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/?p=8447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of our more popular posts included videos of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield explaining how water behaves when being wrung out from a washcloth in space, or demonstrating how to drink coffee in a microgravity environment.   This, by far, surpasses even those kick-ass productions.  Mr. Hadfield, you are our hero.]]></description>
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		<title>Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Teaser</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-teaser/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/agents-of-s-h-i-e-l-d-teaser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 13:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Post</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film and TV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/?p=8440</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, in the plus column we have: Agent Coulson (apparently back from the dead &#8211; comic book magic in the classic tradition) some hot chick (honestly I can&#8217;t be bothered to look up who she is but she looks right for the part of &#8220;the hot agent&#8221; and will likely end up with some sexy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2013 Campbell Award Nominees!</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/2013-campbell-award-nominees/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/2013-campbell-award-nominees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 03:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Post</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John W. Campbell Memorial Award]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/?p=8416</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2013 John W. Campbell Memorial Award finalists have been announced: The Hydrogen Sonata, Iain M. Banks (Orbit) Any Day Now, Terry Bisson (Overlook) Existence, David Brin (Tor) The Rapture of the Nerds, Cory Doctorow &#38; Charles Stross (Tor) Empty Space, M. John Harrison (Night Shade) Intrusion, Ken MacLeod (Orbit) Railsea, China Miéville (Del Rey) The Fractal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SF Manga 101: Twin Spica</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/sf-manga-101-twin-spica/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/sf-manga-101-twin-spica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 23:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gallyangel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comics/Manga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SF Manga 101]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Space Training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twin Spica]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Glenn Hough (gallyangel) is a nonpracticing futurist, an anime and manga otaku, and is almost obsessive about finishing several of the lists tracked on WWEnd. In this series on SF Manga Glenn will provide an overview of the medium and the place of science fiction within it. From the Big Dipper, take the arc to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gravity &#8211; Teaser Trailer</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/gravity-teaser-trailer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/gravity-teaser-trailer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 13:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jynnantonnyx</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film and TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gravity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trailers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve seen a Hollywood movie where the filmmakers actually tried to depict the physics of zero-gravity accurately. And to do so as part of a taut thriller that might give Apollo 13 a run for its money? Looks promising.]]></description>
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		<title>Ask N. K. Jemisin Anything &#8211; The Interview</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/ask-n-k-jemisin-anything-the-interview/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/ask-n-k-jemisin-anything-the-interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>icowrich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[N. K. Jemisin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in our Ask an Author Anything interview series and we&#8217;re very excited to be kicking things off with N. K. Jemisin, which we are now publishing fresh off of yesterday&#8217;s Locus nomination. The way it works, as you may recall from our first post, is that we get questions from our members [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2013 Locus Award Nominees!</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/the-2013-locus-award-nominees/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/the-2013-locus-award-nominees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 01:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Post</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Locus Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Locus Award]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Locus has announced the nominees for the 2013 Locus Awards. The winners will be announced at the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle, Washington with Master of Ceremonies, Connie Willis. The finalists in the novel categories are:   SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL The Hydrogen Sonata, Iain M. Banks (Orbit US; Orbit UK) Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Lois [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Fibonacci Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/happy-fibonacci-day/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/happy-fibonacci-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 20:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>icowrich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<title>The World&#8217;s End Trailer</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/the-worlds-end-trailer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/the-worlds-end-trailer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 13:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jynnantonnyx</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film and TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World's End]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trailers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, there sure are a lot of good scifi trailers coming out this week. The World&#8217;s End is the last part of a &#8220;trilogy&#8221; from the makers of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. I&#8217;m pleased to see The Hobbit&#8216;s Martin Freeman in a supporting role.]]></description>
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		<title>Snag a Hugo nominated novel in this crazy two-fer deal!</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/snag-a-hugo-nominated-novel-in-this-crazy-two-fer-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/snag-a-hugo-nominated-novel-in-this-crazy-two-fer-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 20:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>icowrich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[eBooks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Normally, when we see a Hugo and Locus nominated author like Daniel Abraham has had one of his books discounted to $3 on Kindle, we find that tweet-worthy (follow us on @WWEnd to find those kind of deals).  When we found that The Dragon&#8217;s Path (book one of his Dagger and the Coin series) comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ender&#8217;s Game &#8211; First Trailer</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/enders-game-first-trailer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/enders-game-first-trailer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 20:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jynnantonnyx</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film and TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ender's Game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orson Scott Card]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trailers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Them&#8217;s some nice-looking special effects. Ender&#8217;s Game (also: Amazon, Kindle, Audible) is one of our most popular novels. Let&#8217;s hope the film tries to live up to it.]]></description>
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		<title>Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge:  April Review Poll</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/women-of-genre-fiction-reading-challenge-april-review-poll/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/women-of-genre-fiction-reading-challenge-april-review-poll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 02:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Post</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time again! Time for you, yes you!, to vote on the best Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge reviews from April. This month is a bit more managable with 10 reviews in the running so no excuses. Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey &#8211; Alex Hammel (ahammel) Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link &#8211; Rhonda [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Shirley Jackson Award Nominees!</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/2012-shirley-jackson-award-nominees/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/2012-shirley-jackson-award-nominees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 18:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Post</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shirley Jackson Award]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Shirley Jackson Award nominees for 2012 have been announced. In the Novel category they are: The Drowning Girl &#8211; Caitlín R. Kiernan (ROC) The Devil in Silver &#8211; Victor LaValle (Spiegel &#38; Grau) Edge &#8211; Koji Suzuki (Vertical, Inc.) Gone Girl &#8211; Gillian Flynn (Crown Publishers) Immobility &#8211; Brian Evenson (Tor) See the official [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hell is Adaptations: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/hell-is-adaptations-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/hell-is-adaptations-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 18:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jynnantonnyx</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hell is Adaptations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J.R.R. Tolkien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Jackson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Hobbit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While writing this installment of Hell is Adaptations, I briefly entertained the perverse notion of splitting this into three, and bloating it with a lot of sidetracks and irrelevant nonsense. I&#8217;m sure you can see where this is going, yes? Peter Jackson&#8217;s film adaptations of the Lord of the Rings trilogy were serviceable, even though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ol&#8217; Blue Eyes Sings The Thing</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/ol-blue-eyes-sings-the-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/ol-blue-eyes-sings-the-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 14:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Post</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film and TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Thing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK, this has been around for a couple years and nobody told me? How the hell does that happen? Anyway, this is a brilliant song and a really strong Sinatra impression for a YouTube video and I would argue that it&#8217;s more entertaining than the last Thing remake. I mean, it has the awesome special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horrible Poetry 101: Arise and Sing</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/horrible-poetry-101-arise-and-sing/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/horrible-poetry-101-arise-and-sing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>icowrich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film and TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genre Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Horrible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joss Whedon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musicals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[SPOILER WARNING: If you have not seen Dr. Horrible&#8217;s Sing-Along Blog, do NOT read this post or watch the above video! Go watch it somewhere else, and then come back.  Trust us.  You don&#8217;t want to ruin it. Dispelling some myths While we at WWEnd are passionate about what we do, we also have day jobs.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award Winner!</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/2013-arthur-c-clarke-award-winner/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/2013-arthur-c-clarke-award-winner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 22:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Post</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arthur C. Clarke Award]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Awards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Beckett]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 2013 Arthur C. Clarke Award winner was announced last night in an exclusive award ceremony hosted by the Royal Society, London, as part of the SCI-FI-LONDON Film Festival.  The judging panel, nominated by the British Science Fiction Association, the Science Fiction Foundation and SCI-FI-LONDON, selected: Dark Eden by Chris Beckett (Corvus) as this year&#8217;s winner. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Boy And His Atom: The World&#8217;s Smallest Movie</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/a-boy-and-his-atom-the-worlds-smallest-movie/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/05/a-boy-and-his-atom-the-worlds-smallest-movie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 20:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Post</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film and TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science Fact]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[IBM has created the world&#8217;s smallest movie by manipulating individual atoms into a stop-motion story called A Boy and His Atom &#8211; which can only been seen under 100 million times magnification.  Yeah, let that sink in for a minute.  The film was made to highlight their research in the field of atomic-scale memory.  That&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WoGF Review: Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/wogf-review-ash-a-secret-history-by-mary-gentle/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/wogf-review-ash-a-secret-history-by-mary-gentle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 01:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>allie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Gentle]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“If history could be changed, how would we know? 
 
Historian Pierce Ratcliff has plans to publish a new translation of historical documents detailing the life of a 15th century female mercenary commander, known as Ash.  What starts out as a simple contemporary translation becomes increasingly strange, as unexplainable discrepancies from established history come to light within his supposedly genuine latin manuscripts. Is this a case of simple scholarly error, or is something far more extraordinary happening?
 
Within his translation, Ash is a woman of legend in continental Europe—a kind of mercenary Jeanne d’Arc, who is credited with hearing voices that help lead her to victory. She and her company, the Lion Azure, are inexorably drawn into the machinations of a (mysteriously undocumented) Visigothic civilization in northern Africa, which seems inexplicably driven to wipe the wealthy duchy of Burgundy completely off the face of the Earth.” ~Allie]]></description>
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		<title>WoGF Review: Half World by Hiromi Goto</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/wogf-review-half-world-by-hiromi-goto/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/wogf-review-half-world-by-hiromi-goto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Parnassus Reads</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiromi Goto]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After signing up for the Worlds Without Ends Women of Genre Fiction year long reading challenge, I had to choose who I wanted to read and what I wanted to read by them. Conveniently, the website had a list of authors and their books. I tried to choose authors I hadn't heard of or read before. Among these was Hiromi Goto. I chose her young adult novel Half World, which tells the story of Melanie Tamaki, her ill-fated mother, and Melanie's quest to reunite the Three Realms.

Melanie hasn't had an easy time of life. She is fat, does poorly in school, and has a drunk for a mother. For these reasons, she is frequently bullied by her peers. After running away from the torment one day, Melanie returns home to discover that her mother has seemingly abandoned her. The truth is far more sinister, and thus begins Melanie's epic quest to Half World to save her mother from the deranged Mr. Glueskin.]]></description>
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		<title>What Happens When You Wring Out a Washcloth In Space?</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/what-happens-when-you-wring-out-a-washcloth-in-space/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/what-happens-when-you-wring-out-a-washcloth-in-space/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>icowrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may know that I am a bit obsessed with drinking fine coffee in space.  Unfortunately, there are many holes in my plan.  For instance, what is the best way to collect the grinds?  How do you keep beans fresh if resupply is relatively rare?  Thanks to the fine folks at NASA, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presidents, Assemble!</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/8093/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/8093/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>icowrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s as good a day as any to remind you that WWEnd has an executive Twitter feed.  Follow us, if you please.]]></description>
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		<title>West Virginia Republicans Pushing for Compulsory Reading&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/west-virginia-republicans-pushing-for-compulsory-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/west-virginia-republicans-pushing-for-compulsory-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jynnantonnyx</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SFF News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;of science fiction (You thought I was going to say creationist textbooks, didn&#8217;t you? Admit it&#8230;): A bill calling for science fiction to be made compulsory reading in schools has been proposed by a politician in West Virginia in order to &#8220;stimulate interest in the fields of math and science&#8221;. Ray Canterbury, a Republican delegate, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telling the Story of a New Era in Space Exploration</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/telling-the-story-of-a-new-era-in-space-exploration/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/telling-the-story-of-a-new-era-in-space-exploration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>icowrich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While NASA is still a major asset to America (and the world), its share of the national budget is continuing to shrink from 4.41% of total spending to an estimated .48% in 2012.  For the first time since the Sputnik era, NASA’s budget doesn’t even garner ½% of the federal budget.  While we all debate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WoGF Review: The Faded Sun: Kesrith by C. J. Cherryh</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/wogf-review-the-faded-sun-kesrith-by-c-j-cherryh/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/wogf-review-the-faded-sun-kesrith-by-c-j-cherryh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>charlesdee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anytime I have considered entering C. J. Cherryh's Alliance-Union Universe, I think about Anthony Trollope. With either author I have always thought that if I read one of their books and liked it, I could spend the rest of my life reading the rest of them. That might be more true of Trollope than Cherryh, since although she has him beat 60 novels to 48, his are much more fantastically long. Then again she continues to write, so it could go either way. There is another odd similarity between the two, Cherryh uses series of novels to explore every possible aspect of her far future history, somewhat as Trollope presented a panoramic view of Victorian English society. But I am stretching things.]]></description>
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		<title>Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge: March Review Poll Winners</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/women-of-genre-fiction-reading-challenge-march-review-poll-winners/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/women-of-genre-fiction-reading-challenge-march-review-poll-winners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Post</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge March review poll is now closed and we have three new winners this month! Our winners will find an Amazon gift card, $25, $15 and $10 respectively, waiting for them in their email inbox. We hope they&#8217;ll use them to buy books and regale us with more great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WoGF Review: Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/wogf-review-palimpsest-by-catherynne-m-valente/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/wogf-review-palimpsest-by-catherynne-m-valente/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thrak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Terrible things occur when you outgrow the space allotted to you. You cannot really circumnavigate Fairyland like September did, not really. It's too big for you."

Palimpsest is one of those weird, monolithic tales about a different reality that impinges on our own, or, in this case, we impinge on it. The only other books remotely like it are John Crowley's Little, Big, in which we learn, by insinuations, that the world of faerie is encroaching on our own, and Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany, in which the protagonist journeys through a shifting, mythic city cut off from the rest of the world. Indeed, the quote above echoes the central mantra of Little, Big - "The further in you go, the bigger it gets", while the lyrical and evocative closing lines of Palimpsest remind me of the iconic ending of Dhalgren; if the narrative of Palimpsest is not recursive, it does suggest that others will follow the protagonists' journey. More than that, Catherynne Valente's prose achieves a level of hallucinatory vividness and poetic lyricism on a par with Delany and Crowley, although her narrative voice is most definitely her own. And like those two books, Palimpsest manages to weave together strands from mythology and folklore into something so convincing you have a hard time believing it's not real.]]></description>
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		<title>WoGF Review: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/wogf-review-the-girl-who-circumnavigated-fairyland-in-a-ship-of-her-own-making-by-catherynne-m-valente/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/wogf-review-the-girl-who-circumnavigated-fairyland-in-a-ship-of-her-own-making-by-catherynne-m-valente/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>everythinginstatic</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when you take fairytales, add in a nod to Alice in Wonderland and more than enough of the myth of Persephone, all filtered through a bright writing writing style that tips its hat to the Victorians? You get Catherynne M. Valente's The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, a beautifully woven tale full of mystery, intrigue, a seriously well developed cast (and a female lead!), and a world that I want to get lost in over and over again. There is a brightness to the story (despite its dark moments), and this is a book that appeals both to the incredibly misleading "young adult" label, as well as actual grown ups.]]></description>
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		<title>WoGF Review: Halfway Human by Carolyn Ives Gilman</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/wogf-review-halfway-human-by-carolyn-ives-gilman/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/wogf-review-halfway-human-by-carolyn-ives-gilman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tintmylf</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carolyn Ives Gilman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Rosenberg (tintmylf) is a professor of evolutionary biology at Arizona State University and has been reading genre fiction for about 30 years, ever since his mother gave him a copy of The Hobbit (seeing Star Wars at a drive-in theater when it was first released didn&#8217;t hurt). He came to Worlds Without End for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Genre Lit-Flicks Additions</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/genre-lit-flicks-additions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jynnantonnyx</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film and TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genre Lit-Flicks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to popular demand, we have added a number of new books that have been adapted to film to our Genre Lit-Flicks list! See the full list below, complete with Instant Video links: Babylon Babies, by Maurice G. Dantec Adaptations: Babylon A.D. (2008) Battlefield Earth, by L. Ron Hubbard (hey, you asked for it) Adaptations: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Hangout event with Jesse Bullington, Lauren Beukes, and Paolo Bacigalupi!</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/google-hangout-event-with-jesse-bullington-lauren-beukes-and-paolo-bacigalupi/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/google-hangout-event-with-jesse-bullington-lauren-beukes-and-paolo-bacigalupi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Post</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next Monday at 2 PM Eastern, join Orbit author Jesse Bullington — and Hachette authors Lauren Beukes and Paolo Bacigalupi — in conversation with Jenn Northington of WORD bookstore! These three talented authors of fantasy and science fiction will be discussing their new books in an international event — Paolo and Jesse will be joining us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WoGF Review: Assassin&#8217;s Apprentice by Robin Hobb</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/wogf-review-assassins-apprentice-by-robin-hobb-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/wogf-review-assassins-apprentice-by-robin-hobb-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lynnsbooks</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robin Hobb]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/?p=7954</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of my WWE Women of Genre Fiction reading challenge my book for April was the first in Robin Hobb's acclaimed Farseer Trilogy, Assassin's Apprentice.  I absolutely loved this book in fact I probably won't be able to do it justice here!  For the past three days I've been living in this world and resenting all the natural little breaks from reading such as going to work, sleeping and other general, everyday minutiae that have come between me and the story.  The characters and the world building together with such an intriguing plot have totally captivated me.  In fact, I have no hesitation in saying that if you enjoy Rothfuss, Martin and Lynch you can't fail to love this and as far as I'm concerned that's some pretty damn fine praise right there.]]></description>
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		<title>The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Trailer</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-trailer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/the-hunger-games-catching-fire-trailer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave Post</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film and TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genre Lit-Flicks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t read the books, or seen the first film, but this trailer looks pretty damn good if you ask me &#8211; and you can&#8217;t really argue with that cast. Looks like a trip to Netflix is in order and we&#8217;ll soon have another movie to add to our Genre Lit-Flicks list.  What do you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WoGF Review: His Majesty&#8217;s Dragon by Naomi Novik</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/wogf-review-his-majestys-dragon-by-naomi-novik-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/wogf-review-his-majestys-dragon-by-naomi-novik-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Triseult</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that's what I call a fantasy adventure! The premise—Napoleonic Wars with dragons—is a bit over the top, but there is enough genuine emotion and excitement on display to suspend disbelief without any second thought. I mean; who needs verisimilitude? There's dragons fighting over the Channel!

"It's just some light reading" is a phrase often heard when defending books that lack depth, tight plotting, or engaging characters. His Majesty's Dragon is the proof that a lighthearted tale is no excuse for shoddy writing. Yes, the story of Laurence and Temeraire is a light read: there is no philosophical treatise on the meaning of existence, no innovation in the turn of a phrase. But that doesn't make it "just" a popcorn book. The characters are engaging, and the story is written with enough tenderness and care that it is easy to fall in love with the characters.]]></description>
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		<title>New Man of Steel Trailer Gets Punchy</title>
		<link>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/new-man-of-steel-trailer-gets-punchy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.worldswithoutend.com/2013/04/new-man-of-steel-trailer-gets-punchy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jynnantonnyx</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Superman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Less talking, more punching. &#8216;Nuff said. Excelsior!]]></description>
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