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Andrew Wheeler was Senior Editor of the Science Fiction Book Club and then moved into marketing. He currently works for Thomson Reuters as Manager, Content Marketing, focused on SaaS products to legal professionals. He was a judge for the 2005 World Fantasy Awards and the 2008 Eisner Awards. He also reviewed a book a day multiple times. He lives with The Wife and two mostly tame children (Thing One, born 1998; and Thing Two, born 2000) in suburban New Jersey. He has been known to drive a minivan, and nearly all of his writings are best read in a tone of bemused sarcasm. Antick Musings’s manifesto is here. All opinions expressed here are entirely those of Andrew Wheeler, and no one else. There are many Andrew Wheelers in the world; this may not be the one you expect.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

April's Fools

I may add to this, as the day goes on and I discover more amusement out there, but, to start the morning, here are some links to unbelievable stories of the day:
  • Locus reports on a new Heinlein novel, multiple Moorcocks, Top Writer, and more
  • Shelf Awareness has Book Sense buying Borders, Rowling demanding control of the words "Harry" and "Potter," and more
  • Larry at OF Blog of the Fallen has the news on two exciting books: Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings and a novelization of the movie Suburban Commando
  • SF Scope teases us about a Good Morning, America appearance today by Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein
  • Google is teaming up with Virgin to colonize Mars
  • Ann & Jeff VanderMeer to edit yet another theme anthology: Squidpunk!
  • The BBC reports that President Bush and ex-Prime Minister Blair have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
  • Jay Lake goes corporate
  • Cheryl Morgan adopts a post-human AI
  • ComicMix to publish Superman stories
  • All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder takes over Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin
  • R. Stevens hand-drew the web Diesel Sweeties strip today
  • George R.R. Martin crosses over with himself
  • From Writer Beware: PublishAmerica buys Disney!
  • Jed Hartman rounds up some great new Google features, including searching tomorrow's web
Your Hornswoggler is Andrew Wheeler Released into the wild 4/01/2008 09:27:00 AM
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