Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
B orn today: Alfred Austin, poet, Leeds, Yorkshire, 1835; Cornelia Skinner, actress, playwright, author, Chicago, 1901; Countee Cullen, poet, author, Louisville, Ky., 1903; Mel Blanc, voice, San Francisco, 1908; Julian Symons, novelist, biographer, critic, London, 1912; Hal Clement (ps. Harry Clement Stubbs), sci-fi author, Somerville, Mass., 1922; Bruce Wayne (aka Batman), crime-fighter, Gotham City,...
Big Dumb Object (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
The List Universe has a list of 10 Obscure But Superb Science Fiction Novels, which are: Bloodworld - Laurence M. Janifer Skinner - Richard S. McEnroe The Greks Bring Gifts - Murray Leinster House Of Stairs - William Sleator (new)...
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...
Bluegrass Film Society (Free subscription) | 02/18/2008
(Star Ship Sofa is a fun podcast from across the pond. Tony is a friendly, humorous bloke, that you would want to have a cold one with while discussing your favorite books/authors. I believe there used to be another host Ciaran? Even better, they have started producing audio broadcasts of excellent SF from well-known authors--the latest 1970 Nebula award winning "By the Falls" by Harry Harrison; "Going...
SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 01/23/2008
James A. Owen, author and illustrator of The Search for the Red Dragon, told SCI FI Wire that the novel is part of his Imaginarium Geographica series, which was inspired by a throwaway line in one of his earlier books.
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 01/21/2008
Variety SF looks at Key elements in the stories of Hal Clement . Mike Brotherton ( Spider Star ) keeps the good posts coming. This time he takes a look at Tom Godwin's masterpiece of short fiction "The Cold Equations". Some may already know that fanfiction.net is a huge repository of (what else?) fan fiction. But did you know that there is fan fiction out there for properties such as , K-PAX , and...
StarShipSofa Podcast: science ficti (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
StarShipSofa aims her sights at one of the very first true hard science fiction writers. Join Tony has he pushes the StarShipSofa deep into the mind and books of this great golden age SF writer, Hal Clement. Get Ready. Blast Off.
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 12/30/2007
Look, I'm not any kind of science fiction expert. My inauspicious upbringing and my flailing attempts to catch up are matters of public record. Among my many unread books are about fifteen representative books from major genre writers that I've never read (current project: C. J. Cherryh). But when I applied to Viable Paradise I had never even heard of Laura Mixon, one of my instructors. This entry...
TexasBestGrok (Free subscription) | 12/29/2007
The Metal Man and Others; The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, Volume One, Jack Williamson (edited by Stephen Haffner) (Haffner Press, 1999, ISBN 1-893887-02-2, cover...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 12/01/2007
Variety SF takes a detailed look at Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity (1953). George Takei will have a cameo role in Star Trek XI . At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Tim Pratt , author of Blood Engines . Pat's Fantasy Hotlist interviews the writers of Wild Cards: Inside Straight . (George R.R. Martin, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Carrie Vaughn, Caroline Spector, Ian Tregillis, S. L. Farrell, Daniel...
scans_daily: Bringing the crack sin (Free subscription) | 09/30/2007
In this era of COUNTDOWN and COUNTDOWN: ARENA, where we find practically every variation of Superman exists on one of the 52 Earths, I wouldn't mind seeing Salden, Stan Lee's Superman, again... If just for the CONTRAST... I'm a big fan of Superman, and a big fan of Stan Lee, at least in the Silver Age. Mixing them together had its good points, and some horrible inconsistencies. Longish post below cut....
Hulver's site (Free subscription) | 09/08/2007
Please ignore this diary. The original's vanished and I just want to import the Amazon list to Shelfari.
Chaos Theory (Free subscription) | 08/06/2007
The Isaac Asimov Kiss: A thousand-year period of darkness is coming, during which kissing will be impossible.The Arthur C. Clarke Kiss: You can kiss in hard vacuum if you're quick about it.The Robert A. Heinlein Kiss: If you grok Martian,...
Dumb Looks Still Free (Free subscription) | 08/06/2007
H/t to Ace of Spades HQ's Kensington for the fact that ABC is doing Masters of Science Fiction , which are four teleplays based on stories by 'Masters of Science Fiction'. Now as a fan of SF for awhile, although my reading rate has plummeted for a decade or so, I would think that such a thing would have famous SF stories involved with them along with some of the true Masters of SF. Like The Weapon...
TexasBestGrok (Free subscription) | 05/26/2007
(Reposted from 2004...) For Love and Glory; Poul Anderson (Tor Books, 2003). For Love and Glory is based on a couple of stories that Anderson...
