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Birthday Reviews: Fred Lerner’s “Rosetta Stone”

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Fred Lerner was born on December 27, 1945. Most of Lerner’s writing is non-fiction. In fact, “Rosetta Stone” seems to be his only fictional credit. He has published the fanzine Lofgeornost since 1979 and many of his articles have been collected in the A Bookman’s Fantasy. His scholarly work includes The Story of Libraries, A Silverlock Companion, and Modern Science Fiction and the American Literary Community. “Rosetta Stone” appeared as the first story in the debut issue of Artemis: Science…

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Birthday Reviews: Keith Taylor’s “Sepulchres of the Undead”

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Keith Taylor was born on December 26, 1946 in Tasmania. Taylor has won the Ditmar Award twice. His first win was in 1982 for his short story “Where Silence Rules.” He won a second time in 1987 for his novel Bard III: The Wild Sea. He has been nominated for four additional Ditmar Awards as well as an Aurealis Award. “Sepulchres of the Undead” appeared in the anthology The Secret History of Vampires, edited by Darrell Schweitzer, in 2007. The…

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Birthday Reviews: Holly Phillips’s “No Such Thing as an Ex-Con”

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Holly Phillips was born on December 25, 1969. Phillips won the Sunburst Award in 2006 for her collection In the Palace of Repose, which was also nominated for the William L. Crafword – IAFA Award and the World Fantasy Award. The title story had also been an International Horror Guild nominee the year before, while “The Other Grace,” which first appeared in the collection, was also a World Fantasy nominee. Along with Cory Doctorow, she was nominated for an Aurora…

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Birthday Reviews: Fritz Leiber’s “The Cloud of Hate”

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Fritz Leiber was born on December 24, 1910 and died on September 5, 1992. Fritz Leiber won six Hugo Awards for his novels The Big Time and The Wanderer as well as the novelette “Gonna Roll the Bones,” the novellas “Ship of Shadows” and “Ill Met in Lankhmar,” and the short story “Catch That Zeppelin.” “Gonna Roll the Bones,” “Ill Met in Lankhmar,” and “Catch That Zeppelin” also received the Nebula Award. He won the World Fantasy Award for the…

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Birthday Reviews: Wynne Whiteford’s “Night of the Wandjina”

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Wynne Whiteford was born on December 23, 1915 in Melbourne, Australia. He died on September 30, 2002. In 1987, Whiteford received a short story award from the Epicurean and Cultural Society. Whiteford’s novel The Specialist was nominated for the Ditmar Award in 1991. In 1995 he was presented with the Chandler Award, presented for Outstanding Achievement in Australian Science Fiction. “Night of the Wandjina” was Whiteford’s final published work and appeared in the 1998 anthology Dreaming Down Under, edited by…

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Birthday Reviews: P.D. Cacek’s “A Book, by Its Cover”

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P.D. (Patricia Diana Joy Anne) Cacek was born on December 22, 1951. Cacek won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction in 1996 for her story “Metalica” and the World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction in 1998 for the story “Dust Motes.” She has been nominated for the Stoker five additional times as well as for the International Horror Guild Award. “A Book, By Its Cover” was published in Greg Ketter’s anthology Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories…

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Birthday Reviews: Sean McMullen’s “Electrica”

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Sean McMullen was born on December 21, 1948 in Victoria, Australia. McMullen has won the Ditmar Award 8 times, including five William Atheling, Jr. Awards for Criticism or Review, for short fiction (“While the Gate Is Open” and “Alone In His Chariot”) and for long fiction for Mirrorsun Rising. His novels The Centurion’s Empire and The Miocene Arrow as well as his short story “Walk to the Full Moon” have won the Aurealis Award. He has been nominated one time…

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Birthday Reviews: Nalo Hopkinson’s “Whose Upward Flight I Love”

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Nalo Hopkinson was born on December 20, 1960 in Kingston, Jamaica. Hopkinson’s first novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won the first Warner Aspect First Novel Contest in 1997 and led to its publication. In 1999 Hopkinson won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. She won the World Fantasy Award for her collection Skin Folk and she shared the British Fantasy Award for co-editing the anthology People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction with Krisitne Ong Muslim. Hopkinson’s…

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Birthday Reviews: Dave Hutchinson’s “The Trauma Jockey”

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Dave Hutchinson was born on December 19, 1960. Hutchinson’s novel Europe in Autumn was nominated for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the British SF Association Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award, as was its sequel, Europe at Midnight. The volume Europe in Winter was the only one of the three nominated for the British SF Association Award, which it won in 2017. His short story “The Push” had been nominated for the award in 2010. Hutchinson co-edited the…

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Birthday Reviews: Michael Moorcock’s “The Frozen Cardinal”

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Michael Moorcock was born on December 18, 1939. Moorcock’s novella “Behold the Man” won the Nebula Award in 1968. He has won the British Fantasy Award six times, for the novels The Knight of the Swords, The King of the Swords, The Sword and the Stallion, and The Hollow Lands, as well as for the short story “The Jade Man’s Eyes.” He won a special committee award from them in 1993. In 1979 he won the World Fantasy Award and…

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