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Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente
Reviewed by Finder on September 4, 2010
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Palimpsest is a city of dreamers, where the fantastic is commonplace: a street paved with old coats, a row of houses borne up on stilts of spider-silk, a child with the fins of a fish. Visitors must find a map to reach it—a map printed on the flesh of a lover—and cannot stay long. But the city isn't easy to forget, its voice a siren song that lures the sad and lonely back to its shores again and again, and drives them to find a way to immigrate, to stay forever—whatever the cost.
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September 1, 2010
Publication news: Out of the Ashes, the sequel to R.W. Day's A Strong and Sudden Thaw, is being released on September 7th from Lethe Press.
August 5, 2010
U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker has overturned California's Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that took away the right of same-sex couples to marry. Author Jewelle Gomez and her wife Diane Sabin were one of 18,000 couples married before Prop 8 passed. Update: A stay of Judge Walker's decision has been granted pending appeal later in the year, leaving the restrictions of Prop 8 in place in the interim.
June 16, 2010
Closing arguments have been heard in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger trial in California, the latest federal challenge to the Proposition 8 ballot initiative that took away the right of same-sex couples to marry. Author Jewelle Gomez and her wife Diane Sabin were one of 18,000 couples married before Prop 8 passed. Judge Vaughn Walker has given no timetable for issuing his decision.
