SF Signal (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Asimov's has posted the table of contents (with samples) for the January 2010 issue: Novelettes "Marya and the Pirate" by Geoffrey A. Landis "The Good Hand" by Robert Reed "The Jekyll Island Horror" by Allen M. Steele Short Stories "Conditional Love" by Felicity Shoulders "A Letter from the Emperor" by Steve Rasnic Tem "Wonder House" by Chris...
42 Challenge (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I've finished the challenge. Since 42 is the perfect number for this challenge I won't add any extras to my list. I will be back when the next challenge launches in December. I had loads of fun doing the 42 Challenge. It ended up being one of my favorites. My completed list is: The Perfect Infestation by Carol Emshwiller Seafarer's Blood by Albert E. Cowdrey Dance of Shadows by Fred Chappell All in...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Free Fiction and Stuff [courtesy of the unstoppable QuasarDragon ] @Manybooks: " Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly? " by Bryce Walton (1954). @Kat and Mouse: " Ghosts Of The Past " by Abner Senires. @Mindfights: " Mistress of Magic " by Karen L. Kobylarz. @Strange Horizons: " A Safe Place To Be " by Carol Emshwiller. @Fantasy Magazine: " The Good Window "...
14theditch (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Here's a heads up to those of you who aren't lucky enough to have a subscription to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction . The upcoming 60th Anniversary Issue should be out soon and it is incedibly great. It has fiction by Lucius Shepard , Liz Hand , M. Rickert , Geoff Ryman , Carol Emshwiller , Robert Silverberg , Joe Haldeman , Ron Goulart , Robert Reed , Kate Wilhelm , Albert E. Cowdrey...
The Mumpsimus (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
For certain reasons , I've been musing on some of the science fiction stories that, over the years, at one time or another, I might have classified as "mindblowing". Just a little personal list, one made very quickly... "The Lost Kafoozalum" by Pauline Ashwell "Blood Child" by Octavia E. Butler "Fool to Believe" by Pat Cadigan "Story of Your Life" by...
14theditch (Free subscription) | 07/28/2009
This came in the mail today from Sharyn November , an Advanced Uncorrected Proof of Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's upcoming YA anthology, The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People It's the fourth in a series of anthologies of mythic tales -- The Green Man , The Faery Reel , Coyote Road . Art work, as in the other three, is by Charles Vess . It is being published by Viking and will be in book...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 07/09/2009
Editor Ellen Datlow has posted the table of contents of her upcoming anthology from Prime Books, Digital Domains: A Decade of Science Fiction and Fantasy , which features stories she edited for OMNI Online, Event Horizon, and SCIFICTION, expected in February 2010: "Thirteen Phantasms" by James P. Blaylock "Mr. Goober's Show" by Howard Waldrop "Get a Grip" by Paul Park...
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Winners of the Philip K. Dick Award for best original paperback: 2008 Terminal Mind, David Walton (tie) Emissaries for the Dead, Adam-Troy Castro 2007 Nova Swing, M. John Harrison 2006 Spin Control, Chris Moriarty 2005 War Surf, M. M. Buckner 2004 Life, Gwyneth Jones 2003 Altered Carbon, Richard K. Morgan 2002 The Mount, Carol Emshwiller 2001 Ship of Fools, Richard Paul Russo 2000 Only Forward, Michael...
Emerging Writers Network (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
I'd like to put in a good word for Carol Emshwiller's wonderful short stories. Her 1974 collection, Joy in Our Cause, published by Harper & Row, was one that influenced me a great deal. I guess the stories could be...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 01/14/2009
Asimov's has posted the table of contents (with samples) for the February 2009 issue: Novella: "Pelago" by Judith Berman Short Stories: "Colliding Branes" by Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling "The Bird Painter in Time of War" by Carol Emshwiller "The Coldest War "by Matthew Johnson "The Certainty Principle" by Colin P. Davies "The Point" by...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 12/29/2008
Here is the table of contents for the January 2009 issue of Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine : NOVELETTES "The Minutemen's Witch" by Charles Coleman Finlay "Seafarer's Blood" by Albert E. Cowdrey "Changeling" by Dean Whitlock SHORT STORIES "The Perfect Infestation" by Carol Emshwiller "All in Fun" by Jerry Oltion "The Monopoly Man"...
Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 12/13/2008
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction starts 2009 with an issue that's almost entirely fantasy, with stories from returnees Jim Aiken, Jerry Oltion, Michael Meddor and Dean Whitlock, regulars Carol Emshwiller, Albert E. Cowdrey and ...
Feminist SF - The Blog! (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
Among the many cool things Small Beer Press does… Peapod Classics! Cheap reprints of great, weird science fiction, including Carmen Dog by Carol Emshwiller and Travel Light by Naomi Mitchison. I have these little books, and they’re just great, very nicely printed. I love the collection of quotes on Peapod’s pages: On Carmen Dog: Pure essence of [...]
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
Small Beer Press , which is a small publisher I happen to adore, is donating 20% of the money they raise from an online sale to the Obama campaign . Small Beer puts out really great stuff, including books by Kelly Link and Carol Emshwiller (author of the very great The Mount , which I wrote about here .) They range from McSweeney's-ish fiction to science fiction to fantasy to horror and back again....
Earth and other unlikely worlds (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Recently received, and now available for purchase from Infinivox , a 3 CD collection of unabridged readings of 'Mini-Masterpieces of Science Fiction': 'Last Contact' by Stephen Baxter 'The Something-Dreaming Game' by Elizabeth Bear 'Grandma' by Carol Emshwiller 'Lambing Season' by Molly Gloss 'None So Blind' by Joe Haldeman 'Kin' by Bruce McAllister 'Gene Wars' by Paul J McAuley 'Bright Red Star' by...
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