Janet Reid, Literary Agent (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
I've been at Bouchercon! I was horrible about posting while I was there, and bad about taking pictures too. What I did VERY well though was screech "hurray" when clients won awards. I had two opportunities to make a complete spectacle of myself: Jeff Marks won the Anthony Award for best non-fiction work for his biobibliography of Anthony Boucher. Dana Cameron won the Macavity f or best short...
Lesa's Book Critiques (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
I missed the announcement of the Anthony Awards at Bouchercon this weekend. Here are the award winners. Best Novel: The Brass Verdict , by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown) Best First Novel: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo , by Stieg Larsson (Knopf) Best Paperback Original: State of the Onion , by Julie Hyzy (Berkley) Best Short Story: “A Sleep Not Unlike Death,” by Sean Chercover (from...
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Man a bit of a demon. 3.5 out of 5 http://leighdbrackett.wordpress.com/selection-of-non-planetary-romance-stories/boucher-anthony-snulbug/
SHOTSMAG CONFIDENTIAL (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
The results of the Anthony Awards are in! Congratulations to all the winners. Best Novel - The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly [Little, Brown and Company] Best F irst Novel - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson [Knopf] Best Paperback Original - State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy [Berkley] Best Short Story - " A Sleep Not Unlike Death " by Sean Chercover , Hardcore Hardboiled...
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
Looking at my bookshelf I see that I've read about half of the old science fiction magazines I got back in May 2008 , even though I didn't review all of them. So here is a bonus middle-of-the-project review of a book my mother gave me for my birthday in 2001 but which I never read until today. It's The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction, Eighth Series , published in 1959 (not 1957, as I said earlier)....
Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
I'm sure there are a few of you out there who remember, as I do, what it was like to spend hours in front of a radio listening to shows that meant adventure (Superman, Green Hornet, Hopalong Cassidy etc) and shows that meant laughs (I loved Jack Benny, The Great Gildersleeve, Bob Hope (who knew what a dick he was in reality') and of course Fibber McGee and Molly. Two of the shows my little brother...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 08/04/2009
Here are the contents of The Library of America's upcoming anthology, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940's Until Now edited by Peter Straub: "Evening Primrose" by John Collier (1940) "Smoke Ghost" by Fritz Leiber (1941) "Mysteries of the Joy Rio" by Tennessee Williams (1941) "The Refugee" by Jane Rice (1943) "Mr. Lupescu"...
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 08/03/2009
Carlos Morales isn't a killer. He's just a broker. Send him the dough and the instructions, and he'll pass along the job to someone who'll get it done. That's the way it's always worked, that is, until now, when Carlos gets an envelope with $10K in cash and a note saying that the person to be killed is his mother. Another little problem is that the note uses the name Charlie , which only his mother...
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 07/31/2009
(This marks the 59th installment of The Rap Sheet’s ongoing Friday blog series highlighting great but forgotten books. Previous recommendations can be found here.)“[I]s this a suspense story, or is it at last a serious novel about a private detective?” asked New York Times critic Anthony Boucher in his October 1958 review of The Eighth Circle, by Stanley Ellin. “I’m not...
Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/17/2009
I've told the story hundreds of times, probably more than once on this blog, of how I spent my time in graduate school. That was a long time ago, back before Al Gore had invented teh internets, and to do research, I had to spend a lot of time in the library. But I wasn't doing research that related to my studies, exactly. Instead, I was browsing through the bound volumes of The New York Times Book...
Mike Brotherton: SF Writer (Free subscription) | 05/27/2009
Maybe the short fiction magazines are dying, maybe not, but some of them are doing things to drum up interest. First prize is a 60 year subscription! COMPETITION #78: THE SECRET HISTORY OF F&SF Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, originally titled The Magazine of Fantasy, was founded in 1949 by Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas… or was [...]
Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 05/04/2009
Robots Should Replace Cafeteria Ladies, Say Students re: Anthony Boucher on 5/3/2009: Science Fiction in the News.
Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 12/02/2008
Robot Prepares Pancakes For Breakfast re: Anthony Boucher on 12/1/2008: Science Fiction in the News.
PETRONA (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
It is a while since I read the Dorothy L mail list: I have not read it since I started this blog, in fact (there is only time for so much). But it was there that I first heard of...
Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 09/24/2007
Murder. Lies. Kidnapping. Corruption. Infidelity. Betrayal. Motive.
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