» NY Times: Clare Clark reviews Julianna Baggott’s Pure – “What lifts ‘Pure’ from the glut of blood-spattered young adult fiction is not the story Baggott tells but the exquisite precision of her prose.” » Boing Boing blogs about Science fiction apocalypses live on stage in New Hampshire from March 9-25, including new work by [...]

» Blog Arcfinity previews New Scientist’s upcoming SF zine Arc » Time Magazine: Lev Grossman reviews Elizabeth Hand’s Available Dark » Library Journal’s SF/F Reviews for Feb 15th give stars to Elspeth Cooper, Melanie Rawn, Walter Jon Williams » Ben Bova explains how he owes his editing career to George Burns

» LA Times: David L. Ulin reviews Matt Ruff’s The Mirage, comparing it unfavorably to works by PKD; “It’s not a world Ruff is creating so much as it is a high concept…” » LA Times: Margaret Wappler reviews William Gibson’s Distrust That Particular Flavor

» Quebec Writers’ Federation is offering an 8-week Workshop on writing fantasy and science fiction stories, led by Claude Lalumière » Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews Michael Saler’s As If » Seattle Post Intelligencer: Richard Marcus reviews Saladin Ahmed’s Throne Of The Crescent Moon » LA Times: William Gibson talks to Wired » Huffington Post: [...]

» Analog’s Readers’ Award Ballot is online through February 14 » Ann VanderMeer has issued a call for submissions for Steampunk Revolution, to be published Fall 2012 » StarShipSofa is running an Online Writers Workshop on 31 March 2012 with guest speakers Ann VanderMeer, Peter Watts, and Nancy Kress » Wired’s GeekDad offers 102 Essential [...]

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