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Christopher McKitterick's short work has appeared in Analog, Artemis, Captain Proton, Extrapolation, Mythic Circle, Ruins: Extraterrestrial, Sentinels: In Honor of Arthur C. Clarke, Synergy SF, Tomorrow SF, Visual Journeys, Westward Weird, World Literature Today, and elsewhere. He teaches writing at the University of Kansas and is Director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction (http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu). Chris recently finished a far-future novel, Empire Ship, and his debut novel, Transcendence, is now available from Hadley Rille Books. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas, where he teaches writing and SF, restores old vehicles, and watches the sky.

If you want to read his full blog, come visit at: http://mckitterick.livejournal.com

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First up, "El Martillo de Thor se queda Pendejo." While taking a little break from grading final projects, I stumbled across this insane video about a cultural phenomenon I was not aware of, but now must learn EVERYTHING about. Whoah. You gotta respect Mjölnir, else it tries to launch you into space. Seriously, though, what kind of fest... Read more of this blog post »

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	Transcendence 3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Westward Weird by Martin H. Greenberg (editor), Dean Wesley Smith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch 3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ruins Extraterrestrial by Eric T. Reynolds (Editor), Wendy Waring, Robert B. Marcus Jr. 4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2007	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sentinels in Honor of Arthur C. Clarke by Gregory Benford (editor), A.A. Jackson IV, Christopher McKitterick (Goodreads Author) 3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Visual Journeys: A Tribute To Space Artists by Eric T. Reynolds (editor), Tobias S. Buckell (Goodreads Author), Michael A. Burstein (Goodreads Author) 3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	TSR JAM 1999 by TSR Staff, Bryon Wischstadt (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Christopher McKitterick (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.25 of 5 stars 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1999	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Synergy SF: New Science Fiction by George Zebrowski (Editor), Charles L. Harness, William Tenn 3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Any Day Now: A Novel

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Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

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Uglies (Uglies, #1)

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Christopher McKitterick wrote a new blog post Three-plus things make a post! Not much serious here, just some stuff to enhance your day!First up, "El Martillo de Thor se queda Pendejo." While taking a little break from gradi... Read more of this blog post »
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Christopher McKitterick rated a book 5 of 5 stars Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson (Goodreads Author) read in March, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Speculative fiction has been undergoing significant changes lately, as significant and revolutionary in the genre as the New Wave or Cyberpunk. The genre has not remained stagnant since the 80s, but has matured and grown in subtle ways that have been...more
Mar 27, 2013 09:23am · see review
Christopher McKitterick rated a book 4 of 5 stars The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations by Cory Doctorow read in February, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I have heard the argument that this book feels like Doctorow and Stross competing to see who's cleverer, but in fact that works in the book's favor. They both do their best to write the cleverest, most thoroughly imagined trans-/post-human work I've...more
Feb 25, 2013 10:11am · see review
Christopher McKitterick rated a book 4 of 5 stars The Hydrogen Sonata (Culture, #10) by Iain M. Banks read in February, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Just finished this big book a day or two ago, and my reaction is positive. For a long time, I kept going because of the engaging characters and because of the usual Culture-novel stuff like watching how a post-singularity true-anarchic utopia might o...more
Feb 05, 2013 12:57pm · see review
Christopher McKitterick rated a book 4 of 5 stars Redshirts by John Scalzi (Goodreads Author) read in January, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This was an absolute blast and an extremely quick read: Even ill, I finished it in less than 24 hours, and I'm not a fast reader. What surprised me is that Scalzi's self-proclaimed "piss-take on televised science fiction" also brought up a real emoti...more
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Christopher McKitterick is currently reading Any Day Now: A Novel by Terry Bisson	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Christopher McKitterick rated a book 4 of 5 stars The Habitation of the Blessed (A Dirge for Prester John, #1) by Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author) read in February, 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Wonderful and magical alternate-history-ish fantasy novel. I only wish the different characters had different voices to distinguish them from one another; perhaps Valente's greatest strength is her authorial voice, but here she would have done well t...more
Sep 18, 2012 11:34am · see review
Christopher McKitterick is currently reading Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos by Seth Lloyd	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Christopher McKitterick rated a book 3 of 5 stars Rotten Vol. 1: Reactivated by Mark Rahner read in September, 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Old-West zombie tale in graphic-novel form! "Enjoyed" is a strong term for a zombie story, but this one kept me reading straight through. If you like zombies AND westerns, you'll really like it.
Sep 18, 2012 11:33am · see review