My review of Gene Wolfe's The Sorcerer's...
they must need bears (Free subscription) | 03/12/2010
My review of Gene Wolfe's The Sorcerer's House is up at Tor.com.
they must need bears (Free subscription) | 03/12/2010
My review of Gene Wolfe's The Sorcerer's House is up at Tor.com.
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 03/11/2010
Interviews/Profiles StarShipSofa interviews Gene Wolfe (podcast). Dark Wolf's Fantasy Reviews interviews the 2009 Bram Stoker Awards Nominees . Techland interviews Mark Millar . News David Anthony Durham's Blog has moved . Australis Imaginarium Call for Recommendations: reprint anthology . Terence Stamp and John Hurt Lead Ultramarines Voice Cast . Graham McNeill's latest novel, Horus Heresy: A Thousand...
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 03/11/2010
Interviews Dark Wolf's Fantasy Reviews interviews the 2009 Bram Stoker Awards Nominees . StarShipSofa interviews Gene Wolfe (podcast). Advice/Articles Norman Spinrad on Third World Worlds . Jason Sanford on I promised myself I wouldn't rant, but then... Fábio Fernandes on Brazil on International SF - still some thoughts, with a little help from Norman Spinrad . Nick Mamatas on World SF, Worth...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 03/10/2010
Interviews/Profiles Romance Divas interviews Realms of Fantasy . Gail Z. Martin interviews LA Banks and SA Rule (podcast). Temple Library Reviews interviews Kaaron Warren . Seattle Geekly interviews Adrian Phoenix, Eric S Brown, Matthe Flaming, Amy Sterling (podcast). Starship Sofa interviews Gene Wolfe (podcast). News Hugo Voters! Hugo nomination deadline is March 13 ! Job Opening at Wildside Press...
StarShipSofa Podcast: science ficti (Free subscription) | 03/09/2010
Guest Editorial: Fanzines by Mur Lafferty 02:33 StarShipSofa Interrogations: Gene Wolfe 08:50 Main Fiction: Bridesicle by Will McIntosh 01:00:00 Fact Article: Observation Deck by Cheryl Morgan 01:47:00 Narrator: Amy H. Sturgis Bridesicle by Will McIntosh is a nominee for Nebula Best Short Story 2009
http://www.az10.com/rss.xml (Free subscription) | 03/08/2010
The story of a man who wants to marry his boss's daughter, but loses out to a perfect man from Yale. That's what the story is all about... on the surface. Narrated by Mike Boris. "Pulp Cover" is featured in Starship Sofa Aural Delight... More »
The World in the Satin Bag (Free subscription) | 03/08/2010
That's a big question. I've always wanted to design an introductory course on science fiction or fantasy (doing both at the same time would be impossible). Selecting texts, however, is always a problem for any genre-specific course. Where do you start? Where do you end? Which movements do you represent or ignore? Do you risk bringing in texts that few people have heard of in the hope of trying to show...
they must need bears (Free subscription) | 03/08/2010
1000 words today, and now I am on "vacation." Flight to Tucson leaves at 6 am. I already miss my dog. 1) Abby Franquemont, Respect the Spindle 2) Phil and Kaja Foglio, Girl Genius vol. 7 3) Amanda Downum, The Bone Palace (draft) 4) Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor (draft) 5) Carrie Vaughn, Kitty's House of Horrors 6) Gene Wolfe, The Sorcerer's House 7) Robin Hobb, Dragon Keeper 8) Jon...
Stomping on Yeti (Free subscription) | 03/01/2010
I haven't had much time to post here over the past week. Just my luck that March offers an absurd amount of good books to check out, regardless of which subgenre you are looking for. Spellwright - Blake Charlton Spellwright Trilogy, Book 1 - March 2nd marks the release of Blake Charlton's debut novel from Tor. Spellwright, the first book in his highly anticipated fantasy trilogy, has a lot of good...
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 02/28/2010
PopCrunch has an annotated list of the 16 Best Dystopian Books of All Time. The bare-bones list is below, with ones I've read in bold print: 1. The Diamond Age, or A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson 2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy 3. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 4. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell 5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 6. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson...
Hebdomeros (Free subscription) | 02/27/2010
So I've been slacking on the blog here for the last couple of months, not because I haven't been reading or writing but because I've been putting reviews I normally do up on another site, Murmur.com . The literature community there is small but growing, and it's nice to get feedback from other people who are reading some of the same things I read. But one of my New Year's resolutions this year was...
Neil Gaiman's Journal (Free subscription) | 02/25/2010
I've spent the last three days in Naperville, Il. (and sometimes, I have been told, in Aurora Il.), near Chicago, where I was the guest author for NAPERVILLE READS. On the first night I arrived and signed 3,000 books for Anderson's Books, who are hosting this. (It took 3 hours and 10 minutes, with people helping stack up books and put them away). Then from school-starting time in the morning until...
The Spoons That Are My Ears! (Free subscription) | 02/25/2010
Here we see a mysterious forest, an unusual expanse of mixed woodland. The broccoli trees are in full bloom; there's an old driftwood tree in the foreground; and on the right-hand side of the picture stands a rare handtree... It seems to be a left-hand tree. Counting the rings of handtrees isn't a very good way of estimating their age; not all of them wear rings. But judging by the height and span...
Orang Utan Comics News (Free subscription) | 02/25/2010
Orang Utan Comics will guest at Houston’s 3 rd annual Comicpalooza the largest sci-fi/comic convention in Houston. This years convention is at the George R Brown Convention Center on March 26-28, 2010. Joining Orang Utan Comics as guests will be Bruce Campbell, Bernie Wrightson, Dichen Lachman, Humberto Ramos, Gene Wolfe, Peter Mayhew, Ethan Van Sciver and many, many more. Just check out their...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 02/24/2010
This week's Mind Meld topic was suggested by John Klima. We asked this week's panelists (including John): Q: Which SF/F/H book do you love that everyone else hates? Which SF/F/H book do you hate that everyone else loves? Here's what they said... Farah Mendlesohn Farah Mendlesohn used to edit Foundation , the International Review of Science Fiction , is the President of the International Association...