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BLINKS
Thu 4 Sep 08
» September Internet Review of SF interviews Cory Doctorow and has reviews and features by Lois Tilton, Cynthia Ward, Jay Lake & Ruth Nestvold, and others
» Discover Magazine blogs about Greg Egan's Incandescence » Comic Book Resources interviews Harlan Ellison » Sci Fi Weekly's John Clute reviews James Patrick Kelly; and Pamela Sargent reviews Howard Waldrop's Other Worlds, Better Lives » B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Paul Auster's Man in the Dark » Mythic Delirium features poems by David C. Kopaska-Merkel and Gene Van Troyer » Tom Purdom has posted a new installment of literary memoir "When I Was Writing"
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FUTURE HISTORY
Author Events 1 - 7 Sep
S.M. Stirling, Peter Brett, Steven Erikson, Brian Greene Conventions early Sep none Mon 1 Sep 08
» iO gallery, in Cornwall Bridge CT, has a Michael Whelan exhibit opening Sept 6th
» San Francisco Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Daryl Gregory, Andrew Davidson, Nick Harkaway » Dave Langford's Ansible 254 » Rick Kleffel has a two-part interview with Clive Barker » Odyssey Podcasts presents Craig Shaw Gardner on humor in speculative fiction Fri 29 Aug 08
» BBC News: BBC Radio and TV producer Geoffrey Perkins, who produced radio series "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", has died in a road accident
» Discover Magazine: Neal Stephenson Returns » Wall Street Journal reviews Dozois' Year's Best SF » Cosmos Magazine has free fiction Frame of Mind, by Christopher East Wed 27 Aug 08
» Night Shade Books has an interview with Greg Egan and excerpts from Incandescence
» Village Voice: Elizabeth Hand reviews Deb Olin Unferth's Vacation » Tor.com has new story Shade, by Steven Gould » SFScope still has a few copies of Masters of Science Fiction DVD to give away » John Alan Simon talks about adapting Philip K. Dick's Radio Free Albemuth into a film Tue 26 Aug 08
» New York Times on Vernor Vinge and the Singularity
» LA Times reviews Damien Broderick's Year Million; earlier, Del Howison reviews Joe Lansdale's Leather Maiden Fri 22 Aug 08
» Locus wishes Ray Bradbury a happy 88th birthday today; and check out this vintage product endorsement by Bradbury [via SF Signal]
» SFWA will honor M.J. Engh as Author Emerita at the 2009 Nebula Awards Weekend in Los Angeles » Anticipation, the 2009 World SF Convention in Montréal, will present a Special Category Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story (press release [doc]) » Tor.com: David D. Levine reports (at length) from Mike Brotherton's NASA-sponsored boot camp to teach astronomy to SF writers » LA Times: Michael Chabon on 'writers who can dwell between worlds' » Writer's Voice interviews John Kessel » FANZINE has new fiction "Mankind Through the Ages" by Scott Bradfield » The Dr. Howard Gluss Show interviews Robert J. Sawyer Wed 20 Aug 08
» SciFiDimensions podcasts an interview Richard K. Morgan and reviews The Steel Remains
» Torque Control offers lists of top 20 fantasy novels and reviews Neal Stephenson's Anathem » Apex Publications is holding its annual Halloween short fiction contest » Publishers Weekly interviews Liz Williams » Nebula Awards site: Charles Tan interviews Matt Hughes » Neth Space interviews John Scalzi » Fantasybookspot reviews Scalzi's Zoe's Tale Sun 17 Aug 08
» John Picacio has a report with photos from Armadillocon 30
Sat 16 Aug 08
» L.A. Times: Anne Boles Levy reviews John Kessel's The Baum Plan for Financial Independence
Fri 15 Aug 08
» Jeff VanderMeer is blogging political fiction for Huffington Post
Thu 14 Aug 08
» Cheryl Morgan captures Denvention's 20 Essential Books of the Past 20 Years panel; Niall Harrison summarizes
» Scott Edelman has posted his photos from Denvention 3 » John Joseph Adams reports on Denvention's VIP tour of NORAD » Adventures in SciFi Publishing features Clarion graduates Tue 12 Aug 08
» Denvention reports and photos from Ellen Datlow, David Louis Edelman, Pyr, John Picacio (photos and report)
Mon 11 Aug 08
» NPR talks with Michael Chabon about the Hugo Awards
» The Masters of Science Fiction DVD, including two episodes not broadcast, is subject of a give-away contest at SF Scope Sun 10 Aug 08
» Globe and Mail: Spider Robinson reviews Cory Doctorow
» Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Stephenie Meyer Sat 9 Aug 08
» io9's Annalee Newitz reports on Worldcon sidetrip to NORAD, with Anders, Sawyer, Bacigalupi, Marusek, and others
» Bend, Oregon Bulletin: The Shire goes into foreclosure » SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Clarke & Pohl's The Last Theorem » Kenneth R. Johnson has posted an Bibliography of SF Pornography Thu 7 Aug 08
» August Internet Review of SF has features by Daniel M. Kimmel and Nick Mamatas and pieces about Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg, and C.M. Kornbluth
» August Clarkesworld Magazine features Yoon Ha Lee, Meghan McCarron, Theodora Goss, and Gene Wolfe » Sci Fi Weekly: John Clute reviews Nick Harkaway's The Gone-Away World » Guardian blogs about UK chances for Hugo Awards » Truthdig's Steve Wasserman chats with Ray Bradbury (videos and transcript) » Adventures in SciFi Publishing features Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman » F&SF reprints Rand B. Lee's "Tales from the Net: Coming of Age Day" from Dec 2003 » John Joseph Adams is reading for new anthology Federations Sat 2 Aug 08
» Dave Langford's Ansible 253
» Times Online: Lisa Tuttle reviews Stross, Baxter, Fenn » LA Times: David L. Ulin reviews Harry Turtledove's The Valley-Westside War » Transcriptase is available for writers offended by Helix editor William Sanders' remarks last month; this is what happened; Ansible 253 has a summary » Adventures in SciFi Publishing has a Comic-Con report and reviews of new books by Tobias Buckell and T.A. Pratt Thu 31 Jul 08
» Baltimore City Paper: Adrienne Martini reviews Charles Stross' Saturn's Children
» Kathryn Cramer has photos from Confluence, from Readercon, and from New York Review of Science Fiction's 20th anniversary party » io9 recaps Readercon panel Why Aren't Aliens Talking to Us? » August Lone Star Stories has fiction and poetry by Jo Walton, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Hal Duncan, Mikal Trimm, J.C. Runolfson, and Sonya Taaffe » Black Gate has a free PDF download of Issue #12 » Adventures in SciFi Publishing features Neil Gaiman » New pro-rate, online "literary adventure fantasy" magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies is open to submissions August 1st Tue 29 Jul 08
» CNN on Arthur C. Clarke's last novel
Mon 28 Jul 08
» Boston Globe's Mark Feeney reviews Philip K. Dick's new Library of America volume Five Novels of the 1960s and 70s
» The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers' Scribe Awards, announced this past weekend at Comic-Con, include the Grandmaster Award to Alan Dean Foster Sun 27 Jul 08
» Wizards of the Coast has cancelled its Discoveries imprint for original, non-gaming related novels
» Audible.com's free trial offer continues » Scott Edelman has photos from Comic-Con » Ellen Datlow has photos from the KGB's Shirley Jackson Award fundraiser » L.A. Times interviews Michael Chabon about genre and serious fiction » Washington Post interviews Benjamin Rosenbaum » July Broadsheet has interviews with L. Timmel Duchamp and Catherynne M. Valente; plus Sheila Finch, Jennifer Pelland, reviews |
Thursday 4 September 2008PERSPECTIVES : Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Macropayments
I don't care about making sure that everyone who gets a copy of my books pays me for them what I care about is ensuring that the everyone who would pay me decent money for a book has the opportunity to do so. Wednesday 3 September 2008NEWS : Monitor Listing : New in Paperback: August
Notable titles in new paperback editions seen in August include John Scalzi's The Last Colony, Maurice G. Dantec's Babylon Babies (basis for the current film Babylon A.D.), David Anthony Durham's Acacia, Joe Haldeman's The Accidental Time Machine, Matt Ruff's Bad Monkeys, Charles Stross' Halting State, and others by Bradbury, Card & Johnston, Donaldson, Farland, Lessing, Monette & Bear, Resnick, and Zahn.
Tuesday 2 September 2008NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers
Sean Williams' Star Wars novel The Force Unleashed debuts spectacularly at #1 on New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists. Books by Stephenie Meyer rank #1 through #4 at USA Today. And Christopher Paolini's Brisingr revs up for its September 20th publication.
NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: last week August
Notable new SF/F/H books seen the last week of August include Tobias S. Buckell's Sly Mongoose, Terry Brooks' The Gypsy Morph, Cory Doctorow's essay collection Content, Rich Horton's Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2008 Edition, and other titles by Barry, Kearney, Little, Miller, Murphy, and Nevins.
Sunday 31 August 2008NEWS : Locus Magazine: September Issue
The September issue of Locus Magazine, mailed August 28th to subscribers, features interviews with Neal Stephenson and Gregory Frost, reports from this year's Hugo Awards Ceremony, listings of forthcoming books through June 2009, a column by Cory Doctorow, and reviews of new books by Neal Stephenson, Richard Parks, Michael Flynn, and others.
Table of Contents
REVIEWS : Books : Russell Letson reviews Charles StrossLocus Magazine features more than two dozen book reviews in its August 2008 issue. Here's Russell Letson on Charles Stross' new novel Saturn's Children.
Charles Stross dedicates Saturn's Children to the memories of Asimov and Heinlein -- so why did I keep thinking of Futurama and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? There's something very interesting going on in this book, genre-wise -- and, of course, it's also engaging, ingenious, and thoughtful. And funny.
REVIEWS : Books : Faren Miller reviews Ekaterina SediaAnd here's Faren Miller on Ekaterina Sedia's new novel The Alchemy of Stone.
Readers in Sedia's adopted home America are bound to think of 9/11. There's a familiar sense to a passage where even some more positive responses to the disaster lead one character to declare, "It makes me wonder, it truly does -- is a disaster the only thing that can bring us together? Are we that selfish, that embroiled in our own lives?" But The Alchemy of Stone isn't just a transparent allegory of recent events... Wednesday 27 August 2008PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Michael Chabon: Streams in a RiverExcerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview.
I didn't have any hesitation about drawing on different traditions in trying to write The Yiddish Policemen's Union; on the contrary, that was one of the things that was exciting about doing it. When I realized it was going to be both a hardboiled detective novel and alternate history, that was part of the reason I wanted to write it!
PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Greer Gilman: Sun and Moon and StarsExcerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview.
My language is intense, I know -- I like to say I do everything Joyce did, only backward and in high heels. I write for the ear as much as for the eye... Plot is hard for me. I'm not a storyteller; I'm a world builder, a mythos builder.
Tuesday 26 August 2008NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers
Sherrilyn Kenyon's Acheron and Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn still dominate lists; Neal Stephenson's Anathem ranks at Amazon with pre-publication sales; books by Terry Brooks and John Scalzi debut on this week's lists.
Sunday 24 August 2008NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: third week August
Notable new SF/F/H books seen the third week of August include Ken MacLeod's The Night Sessions, John Scalzi's Zoe's Tale, Richard Morgan's The Steel Remains, Judith Moffett's The Bird Shaman, and other titles by Boston, Carey, Duchamp & Gunn, Golemon, Hoyt, Richardson, Schubert & Card, and Thompson.
Saturday 23 August 2008NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Magazines: August
Postscripts publishes a special Worldcon SF issue; The New York Review of Science Fiction celebrates its 20th anniversary; The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction publishes its double-sized 59th anniversary issue. Plus: new issues of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Bulletin of the SFWA, Flashing Swords, Full Unit Hookup, Interzone, Murky Depths, Star*Line, and Weird Tales.
Thursday 21 August 2008REVIEWS : Books : Yesterday's Tomorrows: Philip José FarmerGraham Sleight's column from Locus Magazine looks at four classic titles by Philip José Farmer.
Almost everything he's written makes clear what its sources are and what the writer thinks of them. So "The Lovers" can be seen as a vastly more adult take on the first contact stories that had been written in SF up to that point... In fact, the word that springs to mind and I hope one can use it without the pejorative these days is fan fiction.
NEWS : Awards : Endeavour Award FinalistsTuesday 19 August 2008NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers
Sherrilyn Kenyon's new "Dark-Hunter" novel Acheron debuts at #1 on lists at New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly, while formerly self-published The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry, now published by Morrow, is among the top 10 fiction hardcovers on the same three lists.
Monday 18 August 2008NEWS : Awards : Mythopoeic Awards Winners
J.K. Rowling and Catherynne M. Valente are among winners of this year's Mythopoeic Awards, for fiction and nonfiction fantasy literature. NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: second week August
Notable new SF/F/H books seen the second week of August include Karl Schroeder's Pirate Sun, Benjamin Rosenbaum's The Ant King and Other Stories, and other titles by Peter S. Beagle, Janet Chui & Jason Erik Lundberg, Raymond E. Feist & S.M. Stirling, Sean McMullen, Richelle Mead, Linnea Sinclair, and Timothy Zahn.
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