SFSignal has the ToC for Thirty-Five Years of the Jack Williamson Lectureship, edited by Patrice Caldwell and Stephan Haffner. The Interstitial Arts Foundation is calling for critical essays. [via Salon Futura] A most stupendous (and artistic) “Mind Map:” The History of Science Fiction by Ward Shelley. It appears that Bruce Sterling’s archive will be given [...]

With the publication of The Dervish House, it has now been six years since the Ian McDonald’s River of Gods came out. Along with Brasyl, and the short story collection Cyberabad Days these books form a distinctive body of work from an interesting author. I’d like this panel to take a look back on this [...]

From a press release just issued on behalf of the Arthur C. Clarke award: Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, Patrick Ness, Richard Powers, Tim Powers and Tricia Sullivan are the six authors shortlisted for this year’s Arthur C. Clarke Award, the UK’s premier prize for science fiction literature. The six shortlisted books are: •     [...]