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Washington Post Book World: Elizabeth Hand
reviews S.E. Hinton's
Hawkes Harbor; also, Bill Sheehan
reviews Clive Barker's
Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War and a pop-up Stephen King
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Entertainment Weekly, Dec. 17th [not online]: review by Gregory Kirschling of Michael Crichton's
State of Fear gives it an
A-; also, Spotlight on Ursula K. Le Guin describes her reaction to the TV adaptation
Legend of Earthsea, including her 'scathing missive'
on her website [scroll down]; finally, Stephen King's "2004: The Year in Books" ranks Philip Roth #1
» Nalo Hopkinson offers a free Christmas story,
A Young Candy Daughter, with a request for donations for hurricane relief in the Caribbean.
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LA Times (via Yahoo):
Where Science, Fiction Meet: article about Paul Allen's SF museum
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Slate: article about the latest from Michael Crichton,
Planet Earth's novelist of doom
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New Scientist: Elizabeth Sourbut
reviews Banks, Gibson, Baxter, and Courtenay Grimwood
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Times Online:
God is cut from film of Dark Materials by Hollywood to avoid religious backlash in Bush's America
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Salon: Laura Miller includes Susanna Clarke among the
top 10 books of the year
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Washington Post:
Book World Raves for the best of '04, chosen by various reviewers, include books by David Mitchell, Stephen King, China Miéville, Susanna Clarke, Guy Gavriel Kay, Elizabeth Hand
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Guardian's
celebrity picks of favorite books of the year include selections by J.G. Ballard, Iain M. Banks
» Australian Broadcasting Corporation: poll of Australians'
100 favorite books led by J.R.R. Tolkien, with Rowling, Orwell, and Douglas Adams in the top 10
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NY Times Book Review: Neil Gaiman
reviews The Annotated Brothers Grimm