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Plug: Firstworld Wovel
Jemiah Jefferson is writing a wovel for Underland Press. You can check out Firstworld and vote where the story should go.
Plug: Literatura


One of the older online magazines featuring Filipino literature (and not restricted by genre) is Literatura. Each issue has a theme, whether it's gay fiction, futuristic fiction, children's literature, etc., and features a guest editor. The selections are usually drawn from the winning Palanca Awards texts.
Admittedly, the site isn't perfect. There are a couple of broken links and while the layout for each issue is creative and stylish, it makes for difficult navigation at times.
Anyway, here are some (note: this is not "all" the spec fic texts featured in Literatura) select links which feature speculative fiction texts:
- "The Last Days of Magic" by Ian Rosales Casocot
- "The Apollo Centennial" by Gregorio Brillantes
- "Subterrania" by Luis Joaquin Katigbak
- "Kaming Mga Seroks" ("We the Xeroxed") by David Hontiveros
- "The Kite of Stars" (The one-act play adaptation of the Strange Horizons story) by Dean Francis Alfar
- "Menggay's Magical Chicken" by Nikki Alfar
- "Espiritu Santos" ("Holy Spirit") by Pearlsha Abubakar
- "Suman" ("Rice Cake") by Corinna Esperanza Nuqui
- "A Monumental Race" by Arturo Ilano
November 21, 2008 Links and Plugs
Yey, it's the weekend:

The Day It Rained Forever by Ray Bradbury
- A round-up of Science Fiction in India.
- New Scientist tackles a question that never seems to get old: Is Science Fiction Dying?
- Booksquare talks about Social Networking and how it relates to promoting books/authors.
- Edward Champion covers the National Book Awards.
- This'll sound like spam but it's not: get credit at the Anthology Builder for answering their survey.
- Benjamin Rosenbaum gives a gender breakdown for the upcoming Tumbarumba.
- More P. N. Elrod on piracy.
- Jim C. Hines on The Dangers of Switching Series.
- Bruce Sterling has an essay on Steampunk for Gogbot.

The Day It Rained Forever by Ray BradburyPodcast Focus: SFFaudio Podcast
Every Friday, I'll talk about a podcast or two that catches my fancy.

URL: http://www.sffaudio.com/?cat=1559
RSS Feed: http://www.sffaudio.com/?feed=podcast
Description: Some quasi-self promotion here but if you want to hear two SF fans talk about the various podcasts and radio dramas that they listen to (and simply some geeky tomfoolery), you might want to check out the SFFaudio podcast. Best of all, it comes out consistently every Monday.

URL: http://www.sffaudio.com/?cat=1559
RSS Feed: http://www.sffaudio.com/?feed=podcast
Description: Some quasi-self promotion here but if you want to hear two SF fans talk about the various podcasts and radio dramas that they listen to (and simply some geeky tomfoolery), you might want to check out the SFFaudio podcast. Best of all, it comes out consistently every Monday.
Top 10 Best-Sellers as of 2008/11/16
From USA Today's best-seller list (you can find out their basis here):
- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
- New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
- Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
- Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
- The Shack by William P. Young
- The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck
- The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
- Too Fat to Fish by Artie Lange & Anthony Bozza
- Just After Sunset: Stories by Stephen King
- Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
How good is the D&D Character Builder software?
Tons of giveaways this Fall! If you are receiving this article by e-mail you could win Dungeons and Dragons books:
- November 10th: Adventurer's Vault (who won?)
- November 25th: Draconomicon
- December 10th: Manual Of The Planes
How good is the D&D Character Builder?
When I tried the D&D character builder at GenCon I was impressed. The first major software release by WOTC is now available for beta testing.
Note that you have to subscribe to D&D Insder to download the software. Dungeon magazine and Dragon magazine are worth the subscription price so the extra tools and software coming up are big bonuses. That’s how I see it anyway.
Beta version limitations
You can only level up to lvl 3 on the beta character builder. I had some printing issues as well while testing the software and I’d be curious to know if it’s my printer or the software - probably the printer. Anyone had printing issues?
Many books, one character builder
There are many great features on the character builder. All the powers from all the published books and online articles are available in one place.
Houserules rule
You can also change pretty much anything and everything on your character. Rules tweaks will only mark your character as houseruled.
Power cards
The software lets you print your character sheet complete with power cards - which is very neat.
Horizontal character sheets
The character builder gives you a few options for your character sheet layout. I like horizontal/landscape layout for character because they take a little less room on the gaming table.
The best review is at Critical-Hits.com
I’m an entertainer, but the guys at Critical Hits are journalists and they came up with the best D&D character builder review.
What do you think?
Do you think you’ll be using the character builder? What do you think of the beta product?
Coming soon - Dungeon Mastering Online Tools
Watch the video overview on DungeonMastering.com
Mind Storm Labs releases preview of Alpha Omega Creature Manual
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War Plan Pacific enjoys shore leave before shoving off
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Job Opening at Paizo Publishing: Editorial Intern
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Upper Deck lays off 60
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El covered in dice
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