putative.com (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Just posted my interview with Rob Heinsoo for young and plucky lit blog Guys Lit Wire--which caters to teen guys and anyone looking for books for teen guys, hence the numerous anecdotes about Fritz Leiber et al. I also interviewed...
Neil Gaiman's Journal (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Got up this morning, went in to Minneapolis and recorded introductions for the Audible.com recordings of the Fritz Leiber Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser stories. Then I did the alternate bits for the UK version of The Graveyard Book, and came home. I took some photos the other day of a pileated woodpecker on our birdfeeder, and was chuffed when the birdchick put them up on her blog: http://www.birdchick.com/2008/06/i.html...
Irons in the Fire (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
"The seven black priests-" Fafhrd muttered. "The six," the Mouser corrected. "We killed one of them last night." "Well, the six then," Fafhrd conceded. "The seem angry with us." "As why shouldn't they be?" the Mouser demanded. "We stole their idol's only eye. Such an act annoys priests tremendously." "It seemed to have more eyes than that one," Fafhrd asserted thoughtfully, "if only it had opened them."...
timetravelershow.com (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
A new novel from Wonder Audio The Green Millennium By Fritz Leiber; Read by William Coon 6.5 hrs - [UNABRIDGED] Availiable at Audible and iTunes From the Hugo and Nebula Grandmaster author, Fritz Leiber. Give a free listen to the first chapter. Download audio file (01 Green Millennium.mp3) or use this download link. Phil Gish has always felt like a luck-forsaken little guy who [...]
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 04/21/2008
Today In Theatre History: APRIL 21and Ernio Hernandez1925 Tallulah Bankhead and Edna Best are Fallen Angels at London's Globe Theatre. Noel Coward's comedy describes two wives who get drunk while trying to get even with their husbands for their indifference. Angels will fly for 158 performances.1925 Tallulah Bankhead and Edna Best are Fallen Angels at London's Globe Theatre. Noel Coward's comedy describes...
skullring.org (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
I’ve never been a big reader in the sword ‘n sorcery genre. Although I read Robert E. Howard’s (Conan, Kull) work when I was younger, as well as Fritz Leiber’s Fafrhd and the Grey Mouser stories, as an adult, the only writer in the genre I enjoyed was the late Karl Edward Wagner. Most of the material of this type I’ve encountered since has been derivative adolescent wish-fulfillments, closer to fan...
FreakyTrigger (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
Tom Ewing joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to discuss Fritz Leiber’s “A Pail of Air”, written in 1951. It’s a short story about a kid, some rugs, and an Earth so cold that helium crawls. Will it crawl onto YOU? Elisha reads from the story in case you haven’t. Next week: Isaac Asimov - “Segregationist”
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
The Big Time is an enormously silly, but entertaining, tale of space-time travel with copious Elizabethan references
FreakyTrigger (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Sarah Clarke joins Mark Sinker and Elisha Sessions to discuss John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There”, a 1938 science fiction novella about ice-bound scientists confronted with an alien who can become them. Elisha reads from the book in case you haven’t. As originally broadcast on Resonance FM 104.4 FM in London on April 1, 2008. Next [...]
SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
Best-selling authors Stephen King and Joe Hill--who are father and son--are due to collaborate on a novella called "Throttle," which will appear in a forthcoming anthology honoring I Am Legend author Richard Matheson. It is the first collaboration for the father-son duo.
Electric Spec Editor Blog (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
I'm sure some of our Electric Spec readers and authors got into speculative fiction via Dungeons & Dragons. Sad news... Gary Ernest Gygax, who co-created the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, died Monday, March 5 in his home at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, following several years of health problems including an abdominal aortic aneurysm. He was 69. Along with Dave Arneson, Gygax
io9 (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
Gary Gygax, co-inventor of Dungeons and Dragons, will probably be best remembered as the man who brought role playing games into the lives of millions of teenagers in the 1970s, and who helped spawn... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Opinion L.A. (Free subscription) | 03/01/2008
With an obit, an Op-Ed, an editorial, blog posts and more, we've added our own cannons to the 21-gun salute to the late William F. Buckley, but before we move along, a last word on National Review, or as it...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 02/28/2008
From the Science Fiction Writers of America : The SFWA® Board of Directors and President Michael Capobianco are pleased to announce that writer and editor Michael Moorcock has been named Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master for 2008. The Grand Master represents SFWA's highest accolade and recognizes excellence for a lifetime of contributions to the genres of science fiction and fantasy. Mr. Moorcock...
PlayBill (Free subscription) | 01/31/2008
Today In Theatre History: JANUARY 31and Christopher Reichheld 1903 Future actress Tallulah Bankhead, who can count two U.S. Senators and a Congressman in her family, is born today. 1903 Future actress Tallulah Bankhead, who can count two U.S. Senators and a Congressman in her family, is born today.1905The Woman in the Case is played by Blanche Walsh. She comes to the aid of her husband who is falsely...
