The SFWA Grand Masters, Volume 3: Lester Del Rey, Frederik Pohl, Damon Knight, A. E. van Vogt, and Jack Vance
42 Challenge (Free subscription) | yesterday
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) | 11/06/2009
@Tor.com: " A Memory of Wind " by Rachel Swirsky @Apex Magazine: " After the Fire " by Aliette de Bodard " Benjamin Schneider's Little Greys " by Nir Yaniv " An Evening in the City Coffeehouse, With Lydia on My Mind " by Alexsandar Žiljak @ManyBooks.net:" Pythias " by Frederik Pohl (1955) From the September/October issues of Afterburn SF : "...
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Better if I'm the only posisble superpowered King Of the World. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/3/0/3/9/30399/
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Interviews and Profiles: @PopCultureShock: Mike Mignola Talks About 15 Years of Hellboy, B.P.R.D. & More | @Tor.com: Artist Keith Thompson . @Agony Column Podcast: Margaret Atwood . Frederik Pohl on fandom (part 5). Ellen Datlow reports on the The Funeral (that should have been) for Edgar Allan Poe . @Tor.com: Jo Walton reviews Octavia Butler's Adulthood Rites . Neil Gaiman and BBC will let you...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Cool news! Scott Westerfeld 's Midnighters is coming to NBC . The story "revolves around a group of people born at the stroke of midnight who have access to the 25th hour of each day, which they use to stop crime." [via SFX ] Interviews and Profiles: John Scalzi answers Stargate Universe questions . Innsmouth Free Press has a brief interview with Mary Robinette Kowal . 3 Questions with Mindy...
Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
Science fiction as fact? Just like John Scalzi's Old Man's War and Frederik Pohl's Gateway series: By 2040 you will be able to upload your brain. (h/t to Insty.) In the former, several hundred years from now, Earth's colonial defense ...
Althouse (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
"The appliance will supposedly grow meat and fish from prepackaged 'genetically modified' meat and fish.... Apparently the genetically modified prepackaged food, can be 'grown' in the cocoon during cooking, like microwave popcorn. The process isn’t like the food generators on Star Trek. It doesn’t create food out of thin air, nor will it clone food from natural fish and meat sources....
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
It's the boffo 39th anniversary issue, and despite a lot of big names, there's not much that holds up twenty years later. Clive Barker's gross-out "How Spoilers Bleed" is disqualified for the sentence "Now those tribes were all but decimated." Frederik Pohl's "The Star War" has a cool setup but doesn't deliver beyond some stale snark. On the plus side, Ray Bradbury's "Lafayette...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Missions Unknown calls my attention to this new NESFA Press collection: War and Space: Selected Short Stories of Lester del Rey, Volume 1 . Here's the Table of Contents: Introduction by Frederik Pohl "And It Comes Out Here" "And There Was Light" "The Band Played On" "Battleground" "Boiling Point" "Dark Mission" "The Deadliest Female"...
When You Stop Believing in It, It Doesn't Go Away (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
Looks like I'll have not one, but two Iron Man novels coming out next year. One, Iron Man: Virus , is due out in January; the other will be the novelization of the Iron Man 2 movie. I'm guessing it will show up sometime near the movie's May 7 release date. This is my first novelization (other than a killed-at-the-last-minute novelization of The Beast that Sean Stewart and I wrote back in 2001); it's...
Visions of Paradise (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
While Galaxy was my favorite magazine as a teenager, it lost my loyalty after Frederik Pohl passed the editorial baton to the much-inferior Ejler Jakobsson. Soon thereafter I started reading Edward Ferman’s Fantasy & Science Fiction , and while it did not offer the same variety of future fiction, tending to lean more towards fantasy and contemporary sf, it was still a damned good magazine...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Interviews & Profiles Two interviews with LeVar Buron: @DVDs Worth Watching: Levar talks about being Black Lightning in the upcoming animated Superman/Batman: Public Enemies . @NPR: on the end of Reading Rainbow . SF Legend Frederik Pohl on L. Ron Hubbard (part 2). Sez Pohl: "He was a chick magnet." @Suite101.com: David Weber ( Off Armageddon Reef ). @Off the Shelf: a podcast-interview...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
Interviews & Profiles: Over at her wonderful blog, Sci-Fi Fan Letter , Jessica Strider interviews Freda Warrington, author of Elfland . The latest episode of The Sofanauts features Sean Williams, Mike Wood, and Cheryl Holland . io9 talks with the Next Generation at Locus Magazine, Liza Trombi and Kirsten Gong-Wong . Frederik Pohl on the Writers of the Future contest . Kurt Vonnegut explains drama...
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
I have a lot to say about this issue, very little of it about the stories, none of which I recommend (though nothing is actually bad, except for Ian Stewart's pun-trocious "Missing Link"). I got this issue because I wanted to read Frederik Pohl's novel The Coming of the Quantum Cats and I thought this issue had an earlier novella version of the novel. Instead, it has the first 25% of the...
Toronto Mike's Blog (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
I share an MP3 from my collection every Wednesday. You have seven days to grab this week's MP3. Please right-click your mouse and select "Save Link As..." or "Save target as..." so you can download it to your PC before playing. The Icicle Works - Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream) These guys were named after the 1960 short story "The Day The Icicle Works Closed" by science...
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