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Via twitter: Razib at Gene Expression digresses from gene expression to the question of religion and fantasy. He manages to dig up more Jewish fantasy writers than Michael Weingrad did for his article in the Jewish Review of Books, Why There Is No Jewish Narnia:

To put it crudely, if Christianity is a fantasy religion, then Judaism is a science fiction religion.

Via twitter: nominations for the Nebula Awards are up at sfwa.org. I think the only thing I’ve read this year is Michael Burstein’s “I Remember the Future,” but several of the shorter works are linked so I can catch up.

Via @sfwa and SFScope: Pyr has announced they’re slushing unagented fantasy doorstops—uh, novels.

Pyr is only reading unagented submissions in “the subgenres of epic fantasy, sword & sorcery, and contemporary/urban fantasy.” Their needs for horror, science fiction, and slipstream are being met by agented submissions, so they’re not opening up those subgenres to the great, unagented masses.

Locus Online posts a brief obituary for Kage Baker, who died of cancer yesterday.

The editors of Fantasy Magazine bring us more steampunk links, including eye candy, an overview of steampunk, a web comic, and a forthcoming novel from Pyr.

Charlie Jane Anders reveals 12 Secrets To Being A Super-Prolific Short Story Writer at io9. Unnumbered but still lurking there in the introduction is the classic story-a-week advice. Also of note are secret #6, share one of your worlds with yourself, and #12, write to different markets.