Life and Times (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
planned to read a book on Goodreads Mona Lisa Overdrive (Bantam Spectra Book) by William Gibson 12:43 pm - Comment
Shaken & Stirred (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
Alan DeNiro just sold his novel, Total Oblivion, More or Less, to Bantam Spectra (via the fabulous Colleen Lindsay, agent extraordinaire). As the kids say, w00t!
Grasping For The Wind (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Bantam Spectra has made available the 2008 Hugo award nominated story "The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics" by Daniel Abraham to read for free . Personally, the subtitle is what intrigues me the most, and I plan to read this story in the very near future.
Sturdy and Serviceable (Free subscription) | 04/19/2008
Reading this book, I kept on saying, sometimes out-loud, "haha whut." The entire thing is really so ludicrously over the top, and the main conflict feels like something that might have come from a Saturday morning cartoon produced in the eighties. I enjoyed it a lot, when I wasn't writhing in sympathetic embarrassment at the display of authorial id. Captain Tasha 'Sass' Sebastian is serving under...
Uncle Zip's Window (Free subscription) | 03/22/2008
Nova Swing won the 2008 Philip K Dick award. Thanks & best wishes to everyone involved, including the organisers, this year’s judges, the shortlisted authors, Juliet Ulman & all at Bantam Spectra who worked so hard in the US for Nova Swing & its big brother, Light. Also to Marc Laidlaw, who impersonated me on the [...]
they must need bears (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
Because I just had to make this list for my own purposes, and I know you're all incredibly confused about exactly WHAT I am writing and when, here's the list of my recent and forthcoming work this year, for your collective convenience. January: Dust , from Bantam Spectra: a gothic novel. With posthumans and AI angels. In spaaaaaaaaaaaaaace. In the February Realms of Fantasy : "Hobnoblin Blues," being...
The UK SF Book News Network (Free subscription) | 01/31/2008
British fantasy author Sarah Ash's new novel Tracing the Shadow has just been published in the US by Bantam Spectra. It's a prequel to her series, The Tears of Artamon, and tells "a tale of a siege between kingdoms, and a battle between heretics and believers, each with their own truths, their own lies, and [...]
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Nominees for this year's Philip K. Dick Award , given annually for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States, have been announced: Grey , Jon Armstrong (Night Shade) Undertow , Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra) From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain , Minister Faust (Del Rey) Nova Swing , M. John Harrison (Bantam Spectra) Gradisil , Adam Roberts (Pyr) Ally , Karen...
Uncle Zip's Window (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
GREY by Jon Armstrong (Night Shade Books) UNDERTOW by Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra) FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF DR. BRAIN by Minister Faust (Del Rey) NOVA SWING by M. John Harrison (Bantam Spectra) GRADISIL by Adam Roberts (Pyr) ALLY by Karen Traviss (Eos) SATURN RETURNS by Sean Williams (Ace Books) Winner announced March 21, 2008.
Notes From Coode Street (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
The administrators of the Philip K. Dick Award have announced the 2007 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees. They are: GREY by Jon Armstrong (Night Shade Books) UNDERTOW by Elizabeth Bear (Bantam Spectra) FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF DR. BRAIN by Minister Faust (Del Rey) NOVA SWING by M. John Harrison (Bantam Spectra) GRADISIL by Adam Roberts (Pyr) ALLY by Karen Traviss (Eos) SATURN [...]
they must need bears (Free subscription) | 12/03/2007
Of course, since I just updated my webpage, the Booklist review for Dust is in. I guess I did all right: (STARRED REVIEW: ) Dust, Bear, Elizabeth (Author), Jan 2008. 384 p. Bantam/Spectra, paperback, $6.99. (9780553591071). Bear takes on the well-worn sf device of the generation ship and, seasoning with Roger Zelazny-esque family politics and Mervyn Peake-ish behind-the-scenes intrigue, concocts a...
Cynical-C Blog (Free subscription) | 11/29/2007
From Wikipedia: Fans of the Star Wars fictional universe keep track of the dates of key events with a dating system (or calendar) reckoned at the Battle of Yavin featured in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. In this dating system, BBY stands for Before the Battle of Yavin, and ...
they must need bears (Free subscription) | 11/23/2007
Five random things make a post. 1) Publishers Weekly review of Dust: Dust Elizabeth Bear. Bantam Spectra, $6.99 (342p) ISBN 978-0-553-59107-1 Bear proves there's still juice in one of science fiction's oldest tropes, the stranded generation ship, in this complex coming-of-age tale. Rien, a handmaid in a feudal society, must care for the prisoner Sir Perceval, a mutilated enemy who[m] Rien discovers...
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 11/13/2007
Adam Whitehead (Werthead) asked me to spread the word around, so let's hope that this will help set the record straight. A few days back Mystar (yes, him again), came out and claimed that the ASOIAF series to be produced by HBO had been canned. The announcement was made in this thread on http://www.sffworld.com/ . Needless to say, the news caused a bit of a stir among GRRM online fans. So let's make...
Feminist SF - The Blog! (Free subscription) | 11/08/2007
The World Fantasy Award was given this weekend at the World Fantasy Convention. The ballot was strong in all of the categories and included several women. Even better, half of the wins went to women. And the two recipients of the Lifetime Achievement awards were both women — I was told that [...]
