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6 July 2009

[Review posted three times a week]

(Review)

ARTICLE: A Statistical Study of Locus Online's "Notable Books", by Valentin D. Ivanov

What is going on with the demography of the subgenres? Do we get more and more sequels every year, recycling the same old ideas?

FICTION: On the Destruction of Copenhagen by the War-Machines of the Merfolk, by Peter M. Ball

The television stutters as we flick through the channels, colours bleeding together and rendering the devastation a fuzzy blue or green.

POETRY: Dark Emblem, by Greg Beatty

From our fingers, what falls, / when we new faithful fall?

REVIEW: This Week's Reviews, posted three times a week

Monday: The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún by J. R. R. Tolkien, reviewed by Adam Roberts
Wednesday: The Very Best of Gene Wolfe, by David McWilliam
Friday: Two Tastes of Paprika: Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel (trans. Andrew Driver), and Satoshi Kon's anime, reviewed by Martin Lewis

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