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Meta index, March 2012 SF, Fantasy & Art

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Meta Index by type Look up your favourite author alphabetically by first name to see if he or she has been interviewed and in which issue. If you’re looking for a good read or something to watch, browse the list of reviews to see if there’s something you might like. The numbers on this page refer to this document, but the numbers in the index refer you to the correct issue.

Interviews Articles Not an exhaustive list: this is a list of articles that may be

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of historical interest e.g. con reports and articles that may be of ongoing interest e.g. gun laws in Australia.

Book Reviews TV, Movies, Games

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Interviews

Aaron Mannion Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra BJ Bristow-Stagg: Chewbacca is Coming Brandon Sanderson  Bruce Mutard Carolyn Jess-Cooke Cathy Larsen Chad Raines Christopher Kirby  Colin Wilson David Freer Edward James Olmos  Greg Gates  Helen Lowe  Ian Irvine Jane Austen Argument Jeff Lewis Jherek Bischoff JKB Fletcher Joe Abercrombie John Richards Jonathan Cowie Justin Evans Kelley Armstrong  Kevin J. Anderson  Kristen Britain Lauren Kate Madeleine Roux Marianne de Pierres Meg Mundell Michael Mcquilken. Michelle Paver Paul Bedford Rhiannon Hart Richard Fairgray Richard Harland Rob Lloyd Rowena Cory Daniells Sandeep Parikh Simon Morden Tansy Rayner Roberts Tom Taylor

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Trent Jamieson Troopertrek 2011 Trudi Canavan Yunyu

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Articles

501st Legion at Shave for a Cure Andrea Cremer: History and Fantasy, a DMF exclusive guest blog A reviewer on reviewing Armageddon 2011 Armageddon Expo 2011 Aurealis Awards winners 2010 AussieCon 4 convention reports Australian Women Writers Challenge AWW2012 challenge Banksy Big Arse 2 Launch 2011 Brickvention 2011 Chronos Awards 2011 nominees plus an explanation of the rules Chronos Awards winners 2011 C J Daugherty blogs about Night School: DMF exclusive conSENSUAL: Australia’s first Yaoi and Yuri convention Continuum 7 2011 Report Damnation and Dames book launch Ditmar Awards winners 2011 Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular ePublishing: a bubble bound to burst? Fanzine versus Podcast Fanzine vs Prozine: a discussion of potential and Patronage  Feeling Blue... Cosplay in Melbourne Flaming Parasol launch Gaining Velocity: the launch Geek Pride Day - the origins Gender imbalance Good Friday Appeal 2011 Gun Laws & Cosplay Gunlaws & Cosplay in Victoria Home Cooked Comics Festival How To Train Your Dragon Hugo Award Nominees 2011 Hugo Awards for 2011 Imports & Cosplay in Oz J. Michael Straczynski as spruiker Judging a book by a random page Little People Launch Machine Man, FAQ about the writing of by Max Barry Melbourne Zombie Shuffle 2011 Nathan Farrugia guest blog

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Nathan Fillon said he’d buy Firefly Net Rage: a meditation on life and Hamlet’s Blackberry ‘Pure’ & a PhD Rise of the new groupthink Shiro Ang Yeong Hui’s Cosplay Photography Squishface Studio Opening Starcraft 2 - Prae.ThorZain by Daniel Haynes Starcraft article by Daniel Haynes Star Wars Charity Gala Dinner 2011 Success without honour Supanova  Supanova 2011 Surrounded by Sherlock The Guild sells out The Hello Poster Show in Melbourne 2011 Tights and Tiaras: Female Superheroes and Media Cultures Timeline Festival 2011 Troopertrek 2011 Troopertrek 2011 Trudi and Jenny in conversation Us and Them Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe What? Me? Compulsive?! - Jack Dann

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Book Reviews

11.22.63 by Stephen King A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness Advent by James Treadwell Adventures of Lady Luck by Aaron Monson, Sebastian Piriz & Simon Wright Allison Hewitt is Trapped by Madeleine Roux Alloy of Law All the Clowns in Clowntown by Andrew J. McKiernan  American Gods by Neil Gaiman America Pacifica by Anna North And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer Angel Arias by Marianne de Pierres Angelica by Arthur Phillips An Ice Cold Graveby Charlaine Harris Anywhere but Earth anthology Archangel’s Blade by Nalini Singh Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer Art of the Adventures of Tintin by Chris Guise A Shadow on the Glass by Ian Irvine Astonishing X-Men #45 by Greg Pak Avenger’s Angel by Heather Killough-Walden Awakened by P.C. & Kristin Cast Barking Death Squirrels by Douglas A. Van Belle BATTLECRY: Sten Omnibus 1 by Chris Bunch and Allan Cole  Becoming by Kelley Armstrong Bird King by Shaun Tan Bitten by Kelley Armstrong  Black Glass by Meg Mundell Black Rain by Christopher Ruz Blameless by Gail Carriger Blaze of Memory by Nalini Singh Bloody Valentine by Melissa de la Cruz Blue Remembered Earth by Alastair Reynolds Body Finder by Kimberley Derting Bonds Of Justice by Nalini Singh Boy who Fell to Earth Branded by Fire by Nalini Singh Broken Ones by Stephen M. Irwin Burn Bright by Marianne de Pierres Business of Death by Trent Jamieson Changeless by Gail Carriger Clockwork Rocket by Greg Egan

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Cold Commands by Richard Morgan Cold Fire by Kate Elliott Cold Magic by Kate Elliott Coming of the Terraphiles by Michael Moorcock Conqueror’s Shadow by Ari Marmell Creeper by Tania Carver Crossing Over by Anna Kendall Crown Imperilled Daniel X: The Manga 1 by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge Dark Divide Dark Matter: A Ghost Story by Michelle Paver Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor Deadline by Mira Grant Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris Deep by Tom Taylor & James Brouwer Degrees of Freedom by Simon Morden De Luxe by Lenny Bartulin Department 19 by Will Hill Devil’s Diadem by Sara Douglass Die for Me by Amy Plum Difference Engine by William Gibson & Bruce Sterling Divergent by Veronica Roth Double-Edged Sword, The by Sarah Silverwood Dragon with the Girl Tattoo by Adam Roberts Echo City by Tim Lebbon Ember and Ash by Pamela Freeman Embrace by Jessica Shrivington Emerald Tablets by Paul Garrety Emperors of Dreams: Some Notes on Weird Poetry by S.T. Joshi Empire of gold by Andy McDermott Empire of the Moghul by Alex Rutherland Enterprise of Death by Jesse Bullington Equations of Life by Simon Morden Example by Tom Taylor and Colin Wilson Extraordinaires by Michael Pryor Fallen Blade by Jon Courtenay Grimwood Fated by Benedict Jacka Fenrir by M.D. Lachlan Fire by Kristin Cashore Game: The Valley by Krystyna Kuhn Gathering by Kelley Armstrong Gathering of the Lost Ghost Story by Jim Butcher

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Glass House by Rachel Caine Gods of Atlantis by David Gibbins Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar Graceling by Kristin Cashore Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris Grave Surprise by Charlaine Harris Green Rider Series by Kristen Britain Grim and Grimmer: The Desperate Dwarf by Ian Irvine  Guardian Angel’s Journal by Caroline Jess-Cooke Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh Hamlet’s Blackberry by William Powers Haunting of James Hastings by Christopher Ransom  Heartless by Gail Carriger Heir of Night by Helen Lowe Hellhole by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson Hell’s Bells by John Connolly Heroes, The by Joe Abmercrombie Hexbound by Chloe Neill Hit List by Laura K. Hamilton House of Comarré Series by Kristen Painter House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz House Of The Wind by Titania Hardie Inheritance by Christopher Paolini Insurgent I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett Islanders by Christopher Priest Japanese Devil Fish Girl by Robert Rankin Killables, The by Gemma Malley Kingdom Besieged Kings of the North by Elizabeth Moon  Kiss Of Snow by Nalini Singh Legion by Simon Scarrow Lego City: Police on Alert! Liesl & Po by Lauren Oliver Lily and the fairy house List, The (MA 15+) by Paul Bedford & Henry Pop Looking for Group by Ryan Sohmer & Lar de Souza Machine Man by Max Barry Machine of Death edited by Ryan North, Map of Time by Felix J. Palma Matthew Bennardo & David Malki  Mogworld by Yahtzee Crowshaw

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Mole Hunt by Paul Collins Monster High by Lisi Harrison Moon over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch Much Fall of Blood by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint & David Freer Mystery by Jonathan Kellerman Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss Nightshade series by Andrea Cremer Oracle of Stamboul by Michael David Lukas Oracle’s Fire Orchid #1 by Tom Morello & Scott Hepburn  Passion by Lauren Kate Path of the Stray by Kim Falconer Peacemaker by Marianne de Pierres & Brigitte Sutherland People Next Door by Christopher Ransom Pilgrims Play Of Passion by Nalini Singh Poirot and the Doctor by Christopher Ruz  Power and Majesty by Tansy Rayner Roberts Pure Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi Rare: Books One and Two by Foz Meadows Razor Gate by Sean Cregan Red Glove by Holly Black Reign of Beasts by Tansy Rayner Roberts Revisionists by Thomas Mullen Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch Rogue by Trudi Canavan Romanitas by Sophia McDougall Rome Burning by Sophia McDougall Sadie Walker is stranded by Madeleine Roux Samiha’s Song by Mary Victoria Satori by Don Winslow Savage City by Sophia McDougall Sea Hearts Sending by Isobelle Carmody Seventh Wave by Paul Garrety Shattered City by Tansy Rayner Roberts Shipbreaker by Paolo Bacigalupi Side Jobs by Jim Butcher Silence of Medair Silence, The by Bruce Mutard Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper Fforde Soulless by Gail Carriger

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Spellbound by Kelley Armstrong Spiral by Paul McEuen Spirit Thief by Rachel Aaron Stainless Steel Rat Returns by Harry Harrison Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith Steel Remains by Richard Morgan Stonehenge Legacy by Sam Christer  Stranger by Max Frei Stranger’s Woes by Max Frei Strange Worlds by Greg Gates Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks Terminal World by Alastair Reynolds Theodore Boone: The Abduction by John Grisham They Trade in Eyes by Christopher Ruz This is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan Tiger’s Curse by Colleen Houck Tiger’s Quest by Colleen Houck Tiger’s Voyage by Colleen Houck Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht Timeless Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat by Andrez Bergen Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat by Andrez Bergen  Traitor’s Gate by Sarah Silverwood twilight saga: the official illustrated guide by Stephanie Meyer Tymon’s Flight by Mary Victoria Undivided by Jennifer Fallon Vengeance by Ian Irvine Warbreaker Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson Where There’s a Wolf, There’s a Way Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi Winter Ghosts by Kate Mosse Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss Witches of the East by Melissa de la Cruz Wolfsangel by M.D. Lachlan Wolfsbane and Mistletoe edited by Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner

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TV, Movies, Games

70 Minute Phantom Menace Review (webisode) Adventures of Tintin (movie) Alan Wake (game) A Million (movie) Animal Kingdom (movie) Art & Soul (TV series) A Town Called Panic (movie) Battle Los Angeles (movie) Battle Royale (movie) Ben 10 Ultimate Alien (TV series) Black Butler Collection 1 (TV series) Cronos (movie) Dead Set (movie) Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (game)  Eclipse (movie) Evangelion 1.11 You are [not] alone (movie) Evangelion 2.22 You can [not] advance (movie) Expendables (movie) Fahrenheit (game) Fan-made Star Wars remake (webisode) Freedom (movie) Game of Thrones (TV series) Game of Thrones (TV series) Gantz (movie) Gantz: Perfect Answer (movie) Going Postal (movie) Greatest Movie Ever Sold GRID (game) Harriet the Spy: The Blog Wars (movie) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (movie) Haunters (movie) Hedgehog (movie) Hunter I am Love (movie) Joffa the Movie (movie) Knights of the Old Republic (game) L.A. Noire (game) Legend of the Guardians (movie) Lost Thing Collector’s Edition (short film) Lost Thing (short film) Melancholia Metalocalypse (TV series)

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Metropolis (movie) Monsters (movie) My Suicide (movie) Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (movie) Outland (TV series) Priest (movie) Raging Phoenix (movie) Redline (movie) Reign of Assassins (movie) Robot Chicken (TV series) Sacred Blacksmith Collection (TV series) Save the Murlocs (webisode) Sesame Street Iron Monster and Sesame Heroes (TV series) Space Battleship Yamato (movie) Spice and Wolf Spice and Wolf (TV series) Splice (movie) Stargate Universe (TV series) Summer Wars (movie) Thor (movie) Troll Hunter (movie) Tron: Legacy (movie) Underworld Awakening (movie) Valhalla Rising (movie) Venture Bros (TV series) Wilfred Season 2 (TV series) Xam’D: Lost Memories (TV series) Yatterman (movie)

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