Neil Gaiman is the award-winning and bestselling author of American Gods, Anansi Boys, The Graveyard Book, and the comic series Sandman. He blogs at http://journal.neilgaiman.com. Photo by Kyle Cassidy This is an excerpt from Gaiman’s essay in the January 2011 issue of Locus Magazine, “Neil Gaiman on the Internet” ON DIGITAL PUBLISHING AND EBOOKS Paper [...]

Robert J. Sawyer was born in Ottawa, Canada. His family moved to Toronto when he was a baby, and he has lived there ever since. Sawyer sold a few SF stories in the ’80s, beginning with ‘‘If I’m Here, Imagine Where They Sent My Luggage’’ for The Village Voice (1981), gradually transitioning to a career [...]

From the January 2011 issue of Locus Magazine Imagine this: you pick up the phone and call Vito’s, the excellent pizza joint down the road where your family’s gotten its favorite pepperoni and mushroom every Friday night for years. The phone rings once, twice, then: ‘‘AT&T: The number you have called is not engaged, but [...]