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http://smpctryphys.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/stercus-in-urbem/
Thus we have a uncertain proposal of unknown content that on the surface appears to be unphysical. Perhaps Arthur C. Clarke was right in saying that a technology sufficiently advanced was indistinguishable from magic?
http://bigdumbobject.co.uk/2008/05/orbit-announces.html
… Which SF/F Books Have The Best and Worst Endings? Sarah Hall Interview In The Guardian; Adam Roberts’ Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist 2008 Round-up Review; 2008 Nebula Awards Winners; Anathem (Neal Stephenson) Not Short.
http://www.orbitbooks.net/2008/05/09/orbit-links-for-may-09-2008/
Ken MacLeod was interviewed by Alex Fitch on the evening of the Arthur C. Clarke Awards, for Sci-Fi-London’s ‘Reality Check’ podcast, along with Richard Morgan and Stephen Baxter. [sent in by Joe Gordon]; The ‘Fantasy Book Critic’ blog …
http://bigdumbobject.co.uk/2008/05/sf-as-a-literar.html
Sarah Hall Interview In The Guardian; Adam Roberts’ Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlist 2008 Round-up Review; 2008 Nebula Awards Winners; Anathem (Neal Stephenson) Not Short; The List Universe’s Top 10 Obscure But Superb Science Fiction …
http://cyesis.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/motherhood-and-magical-thinking-1/
Magical thinking can occur when one simply does not understand possible causes, as illustrated by Sir Arthur C. Clarke’s suggestion that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic†(see Clarke’s three laws), …
http://gbr87.sfblogs.net/2008/05/09/legjobbak/
Arthur C. Clarke: Isten kilencmilliárd neve (10) - “az SF kispróza klasszikusa†(I. Asimov). William Tenn: A Föld felszabadÃtása (15) - mert már fölszabadultabbak nem lehetünk. Brian W. Aldiss: De ki pótolhat egy embert? …
http://scifi.technophobiac.net/2008/05/09/black-man-renamed/
I know many of you would like to know who won this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction in the end … and sorry it’s taken me so long. The winner was Black Man by Richard St George Starts Low Stays Low Morgan but, it seems, the American publishers to be …