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Sammarynda Deep
"Sammarynda Deep" is a 2008 fantasy short story by Cat Sparks. Background "Sammarynda Deep" was first published in 2008 in ''Paper Cities'', edited by Ekaterina Sedia and published by Senses 5 Press. It was featured alongside 20 other stories by the authors Forrest Aguirre, Hal Duncan, Richard Parks, Cat Rambo, Jay Lake, Greg van Eekhout, Steve Berman, Stephanie Campisi, Mark Teppo, Paul Meloy, Vylar Kaftan, Michael Jasper, Ben Peek, Kaaron Warren, Darin C. Bradley, Jenn Reese, David J. Schwartz, Anna Tambour, Barth Anderson, and Catherynne M. Valente. "Sammarynda Deep" won the 2008 Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story and was a short-list nominee for 2009 Ditmar Award for best short story but lost to Margo Lanagan Margo Lanagan (born 1960 in Waratah, New South Wales) is an Australian writer of short stories and young adult fiction. Biography She grew up in Raymond Terrace and moved to Melbourne circa 1971/1972. After overseas travel, she moved to Sydney ...' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Lake
Joseph Edward "Jay" Lake, Jr. (June 6, 1964 – June 1, 2014) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. In 2003 he was a quarterly first-place winner in the Writers of the Future contest. In 2004 he won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction. He lived in Portland, Oregon, and worked as a product manager for a voice services company. Lake's writings appeared in numerous publications, including ''Postscripts'', ''Realms of Fantasy'', '' Interzone'', ''Strange Horizons'', ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', ''Nemonymous'', and the '' Mammoth Book of Best New Horror''. He was an editor for the "Polyphony" anthology series from Wheatland Press, and was also a contributor to ''The Internet Review of Science Fiction''. Personal life Lake was born in Taipei, Taiwan; he was the eldest of three children born to Joseph Edward Lake (a U.S. foreign service officer serving in Taiwan at the time). As a child he lived in Nigeria; Dahomey (now called Benin); Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherynne M
Catherynne M. Valente (born May 5, 1979) is an American fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. For her speculative fiction novels she has won the annual James Tiptree, Andre Norton, and Mythopoeic Fantasy awards. Her short fiction has appeared in ''Clarkesworld Magazine'', the World Fantasy Award–winning anthologies '' Salon Fantastique'' and ''Paper Cities'', along with numerous "Year's Best" volumes. Her critical work has appeared in the ''International Journal of the Humanities'' as well as in numerous essay collections. Career Catherynne M. Valente's novels have been nominated for Hugo, World Fantasy, and Locus awards. Her 2009 book ''Palimpsest'' won the Lambda Award for LGBT Science Fiction or Fantasy. Her two-volume series '' The Orphan's Tales'' won the 2008 Mythopoeic Award, and its first volume, ''The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden'', won the 2006 James Tiptree Jr. Award and was nominated for the 2007 World Fantasy Award. In 2012, Valente's work won t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barth Anderson
Barth may refer to: Places * Barth, Germany, a town in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany ** Barth (Amt), administrative subdivision * Barth Island, Nunavut, Canada Other uses * Barth (name), a surname (and list of people with that name) * Barth Bagge, a character from the television show " You Can't Do That on Television" * Barth Classic, a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1974 to 1980 See also *Barth syndrome, a metabolic disorder * Barthes (other) Barthes most commonly refers to Roland Barthes (1915–1980), French philosopher and literary theorist. Barthes may also refer to: * Barthes, Paul Joseph Barthez * Joana Barthes *Les Barthes, village and commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne départem ... * Barthe (other) {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Tambour
Anna Tambour is an author of satire, fable and other strange and hard-to-categorize fiction and poetry. Her novel ''Crandolin'' was shortlisted for the 2013 World Fantasy Award. Tambour's collection ''Monterra's Deliciosa & Other Tales &'' was published in 2003, and ''Spotted Lily'', a novel, in 2005. Ebook editions of both of these were published by infinity plus in 2011. Reviews Locus (magazine), ''Locus'' listed both Tambour's collections and both novels in their Recommended Reading lists. Her 2015 collection ''The Finest Ass in the Universe'' was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award for Best Collection. ''Spotted Lily'' was shortlisted in 2006 for the Crawford Award, William L. Crawford Fantasy Award, and was recommended for a British Fantasy Society, British Fantasy Society Award (Best Novel). In 2008, ''The Jeweller of Second-hand Roe'' won the Aurealis Award for best horror short story. Tambour lives in the Australian bush, but has lived all over the world and is, in Tambour's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David J
David John Haskins (born 24 April 1957, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England), better known as David J, is a British alternative rock musician, producer, and writer. He is the bassist for the gothic rock band Bauhaus and for Love and Rockets. He has composed the scores for a number of plays and films, and also wrote and directed his own plays, ''Silver for Gold (The Odyssey of Edie Sedgwick)'', in 2008, which was restaged at REDCAT in Los Angeles in 2011, and ''The Chanteuse and The Devil's Muse'' in 2011. His artwork has been shown in galleries internationally, and he has been a resident DJ at venues such as the Knitting Factory. David J has released a number of singles and solo albums, and in 1990 he released one of the first No. 1 hits on the then nascent Modern Rock Tracks charts, with "I'll Be Your Chauffeur". His most recent single, "The Day That David Bowie Died" entered the UK vinyl singles chart at number 4 in 2016. The track appears on his double album, ''Vaga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaaron Warren
Kaaron Warren is an Australian author of horror, science fiction, and fantasy short stories and novels. She is the author of the short story collections ''Through Splintered Walls'', ''The Grinding House'', and ''Dead Sea Fruit''. Her short stories have won Australian Shadows Awards, Ditmar Awards and Aurealis Awards. Retrieved 17 February 2008. Her four novels, are '' Slights'', ''Walking the Tree'' and ''Mistification'' (published by Angry Robot Books) and ''The Grief Hole'' (published by IFWG). Kaaron was Special Guest at the 2013 Australian National Science Fiction Convention. Bibliography Novels * ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Peek
Ben Peek (born 12 October 1976 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian author. His middle name is Michael. Peek's short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including '' Fantasy Magazine'' and ''Aurealis''. His fiction has been reprinted in various Year's Best volumes. In 2000, he created a zine called ''The Urban Sprawl Project'', a black and white pamphlet of photography and prose, and this remains the name of his online journal. In 2006 his autobiography, ''Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth'', was published by Wheatland Press with artwork from Andrew Macrae and Anna Brown. In 2007, ''Black Sheep, a dystopian novel'', was published by Prime Books. In 2007, Peek also began collaborating with artist Anna Brown on ''Nowhere Near Savannah'', an online comic that in part follows on from their original collaboration on ''Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth''. Peek has claimed that every incident described in ''Nowhere near Savannah'' is true. Peek holds a Bachelor of A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Jasper
Leslie Michael Jasper (born October 8, 1986) is an American football coach and former player. He is the head football coach at his alma mater, Bethel University in McKenzie, Tennessee, a position he has held since the 2019 season. Jasper was drafted by the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL) in the seventh round of the 2011 NFL Draft. He played college football at Bethel as a defensive tackle and offensive guard. Jasper, during his college career, was extremely large even by defensive tackle standards, weighing approximately 450 pounds; he reduced his weight to 375 pounds at the behest of Bills coach Chan Gailey. As of the 2021 NFL Draft, Jasper remains the most recent NFL draft selection from the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). Professional career Buffalo Bills (2011) Jasper was released prior to the start of the 2011 season in final cuts and was placed on the practice squad. The Bills activated Jasper on December 27, 2011 when tight end ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vylar Kaftan
Vylar Kaftan is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. A Clarion West Workshop graduate, she lives on the U.S. West Coast. Kaftan's short story "Civilisation" is included in Farah Mendlesohn's anthology '' Glorifying Terrorism'', and several of her other speculative fiction flash and short stories have also been published. Her short story " I'm Alive, I Love You, I'll See You In Reno", published in the June 2010 issue of Lightspeed Magazine]'', was a nominee for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 2010. Her novella " The Weight of the Sunrise", published in the February 2013 issue of ''Asimov's Science Fiction'', won the 2013 Nebula Award for Best Novella and the Sidewise Award.; it also was a nominee for the 2014 Theodore Sturgeon Award. Her novellaHer Silhouette, Drawn In Water" published May 21, 2019 by Tor.com, was a nominee for the Nebula Award for Best Novella The Nebula Award for Best Novella is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Meloy
Paul Meloy is an English born writer of what Graham Joyce referred to as "Fractured Realism"''.'' Biography Meloy was born in 1966 in Surrey, UK. He went to school in Sutton and worked in a variety of mental health settings, institutions and environments with people who have mental health issues or learning disabilities. His writing demonstrates that his work as a mental health professional has influenced his work. He is now married and currently lives in Torquay in Devon, England. Meloy has a long history with TTA Press, debuting in The Third Alternative #14 with ''The Last Great Paladin of Idle Conceit''. The magazine Black Static, the successor to The Third Alternative, borrowed its name from another Meloy story and in 2008, TTA Press published a critically acclaimed collection of his work, ''Islington Crocodiles''. ''Islington Crocodiles'' is a chronological collection of Meloy's short stories. Books * ''Islington Crocodiles (2008) - 'Montag Press * Dogs With Their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Teppo
Mark Teppo (born May 21, 1968) is an American author of contemporary fantasy and Science fiction. His work is strongly peppered with references to occult concepts, most commonly those of Hermeticism and Alchemy. Prior to his current tenure as a fiction writer Teppo was a music journalist working both as a staff reviewer and editor for various publications such as Earpollution, Igloo Magazine, Earplug, and OPi8.com. Teppo is also Chief Creative Officer of Subutai Corporation, whose first offering is the interactive fiction project ''The Mongoliad''. Bibliography * ''The Oneiromantic Mosaic of Harry Potemkin'' (2007) is an experimental, non-linear, hypertext novel formatted as an internet journal mixed with modern epistolary elements. It was originally published as a monthly serial in the online magazinFarrago's Wainscot but is now available in an organized form aThe Potemkin Mosaic * How the Mermaid Lost her Sing' (2007) - Short story in the online publication Strange Horizons. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
