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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 20:14:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Libero Della Piana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hey all,
Maybe everyone knows about this, but aparently a new
volume collecting all four "patternist" novels is
coming out in January 2007.
I think Parable Of the Sower starts in what used to be a Los Angeles
neighborhood...
Akua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Has there been any discussion here on Orson Scott Card's SF novel set
in a black L.A. neighborhood, Magic Street?
Or on Octavia Butler's Fledgling?
I'm having connec
damn i hate this new yahoo joint.
*Essence has a list likely comprised of a combination of black books
sold at stores like Borders, and books sold at black bookstores like
the Shrine of the Black Madonna. Still not an exact science,
particularly when we want to look at how many blacks read
Thinking about this I believe my interest in speculative fiction began
early with E.B. White's "Charlotte's Web" and "Stuart Little," but the
book that opened up my head was "Black and Blue Magic" by Zilpha
Keatley Snyder. As a teenager, I discovered Ray Bradbury's short
stories. I read Bradbury'
< wrote:
>
> How did folks here start to read SF?
>
> I started by reading Animal Farm in 4th grade
> 1984 in 5th grade and Brave New World in 6th
> grade and sometime around 5/6th, I began reading my father's Analogs
> when Campbell was the editor.
>
> I loved A Wrinkle in Time and made sure my
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Akua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Has there been any discussion here on Orson Scott Card's SF novel
set
> in a black L.A. neighborhood, Magic Street?
>
> Or on Octavia Butler's Fledgling?
<>
>
> I'm having connection problems and so find searching the arc
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "Dr. Lester K Spence"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> what do i have to do to remove the two column joint in my responses?
>
> 1. my figures are purely anecdotal. but where would we
get "real"
> figures?
< border's. what we've got are the words of book
<
>
> Two weeks ago I went to one of the more well-known black bookstores
in
> the city (Black Images) and spoke to one of the woman at the
register
> who informed me that one of the only reasons the store is able to
stay
> open is the sale of the erotic genre books, the majority of which
are
< wrote:
>
> Just peeking into this discussion for a second. Two genres I really
> like are Spec-fic and romance. Generally, I don't care what races
are
> involved. But there are moments when a great leap of joy just
> overcomes my fluttering heart...and that's when a story connects to
> me in
--- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I was only answering a question and I am being honest when I say I
don't
> attach a color to Science Fiction as I only see good stories and
bad stories.
>
<>
> I don't thing black sci fi writers should either.
<>
The ori
Has there been any discussion here on Orson Scott Card's SF novel set
in a black L.A. neighborhood, Magic Street?
Or on Octavia Butler's Fledgling?
I'm having connection problems and so find searching the archives challenging
at the moment.
Thanks!
Akua
http://www.artfarm.com/
"When I despair,
How did folks here start to read SF?
I started by reading Animal Farm in 4th grade
1984 in 5th grade and Brave New World in 6th
grade and sometime around 5/6th, I began reading my father's Analogs
when Campbell was the editor.
I loved A Wrinkle in Time and made sure my baby sister read it
when sh
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