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Tomi Adeyemi: “‘Children of Blood and Bone’ is an allegory for the modern black experience”

sudshr47 March 9, 2018

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If you count the seconds as Tomi Adeyemi opens her gold package — one (pause), two (pause), three (pause) — you’ll notice that it takes her a full 30 seconds before she’s able to speak.

As she rips at the sparkling paper, digging for the prize inside, Adeyemi whimpers and laughs and cries, but it takes a full half minute before she’s able to muster words.

When she’s finally able to talk, Adeyemi’s speech comes out as a stunned gasp.

“It’s really beautiful,” she says, sniffling. “And it’s real.”

In her hands, for the first time ever, is a book, HER book, Children of Blood and Bone. And it feels like magic. Read more…

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Author ‘pokes fun’ at his book’s cover art, which didn’t sit well with the illustrator

sudshr47 February 26, 2018

Authors, maybe don’t be mean to your cover artist.
Fantasy author Terry Goodkind has just released his novel Shroud of Eternity, but seemingly wasn’t too satisfied about the cover. So he ran a competition, giving away signed copies of the books in ex…

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RIP Ursula K. Le Guin, dreamer of the best dreams

sudshr47 January 24, 2018

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Ursula K. Le Guin, who was arguably America’s greatest living author (and one who hated getting pigeon-holed as a science-fiction or fantasy writer), died Monday at the age of 88, her son has announced. 

The news set off a firestorm on Twitter — not the usual kind, thank goodness, but a sudden flurry of people debating which of Le Guin’s works touches us the most deeply and remains the most relevant. 

Usula K. LeGuin, one of the greats, has passed. Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon. Godspeed into the galaxy.

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) January 23, 2018

Was it Wizard of Earthsea, the 1968 classic, and its five sequels, which showed the world how to write a wizard student’s coming-of-age story decades before Harry Potter was a gleam in J.K. Rowling’s eye? The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), a truly revolutionary novel about a race of aliens that changes gender at will, which holds up better than ever in 2018? The Dispossessed (1973), which featured the first ever anarchist utopia in fiction, decades before Occupy Wall Street was a thing?  Read more…

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Crunch Report | A Telegram ICO Would Be Huge

sudshr47 January 9, 2018

Telegram is planning a multi-billion-dollar ICO, Uber taps Nvidia for self-driving chips and DraftKings launches single-game NFL fantasy contests. All this on Crunch Report. Read More

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