Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Is Harry Turtledove ? Compare the similarity in output to Patterson . I just noticed that Glenn Reynolds received a copy of Turtledove's second book in a quasi-alternate history series he's been working on. Turtledove shines when he's applying what he knows. Even if the Videssos cycle wasn't artful prose, the books had plots which moved along, while his historical, Justinian , had incredible source...
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
IN THE MAIL: Harry Turtledove’s latest, The Golden Shrine.
Planetalyx Information Bureau (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
I'm still working on the fiction page portion of my website revamp , and now I'm running down anthology links for books my stories have appeared in. I'll put them behind a cut, with the exception of the shiny-new PASSING FOR HUMAN , edited by Michael Bishop and Steven Utley , which is here and which in addition to my "Cooking Creole" also has Jessica Reisman 's incomparable "Nights at...
Locusts & Honey (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
I finished reading Canticle . It's a post-apocalyptic novel set in a Catholic monastery a few centuries after a nuclear war reduced the world to Iron Age-level technology. This is a dynastic novel that follows the monastery's inhabitants throughout the ages, as humanity gradually rebuilds. Miller has written a carefully-crafted work, where each word and phrase, particularly in the dialogue, is thoughtfully...
Locusts & Honey (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
The alternate history fiction of Harry Turtledove has been reviewed and discussed with some regularity over the years on this blog. As a friend of John's, and at his recommendation, I did read one of his novels, Guns of the South several years ago, and found it enjoyable enough, although I didn't follow-up on it at all. Therefore, when I was at my public library last week selecting books to take on...
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 09/18/2009
Pteranodon, no fucking feathers, no count. 3.5 out of 5 http://www.webscription.net/chapters/1439132747/1439132747___2.htm
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...
Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Hardcover: Jumper Cable – Piers Anthony Torchwood: The Undertaker's Gift – Trevor Baxendale By the Mountain Bound – Elizabeth Bear Servant of a Dark God – John Brown Halo Encyclopedia – Tobias Buckell, Ed. At Empire's Edge – William Dietz The Wild Things – Dave Eggers Chaosbound – David Farland Dragon's Ring – David Freer Nova War – Gary Gibson...
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 08/31/2009
Thanks to the folks at Night Shade Books, I have three copies of By Blood We Live , edited by John Joseph Adams, for you to win. This anthology features vampire stories by some of the biggest names in speculative fiction: Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Anne Rice, Sergei Lukyanenko, Tad Williams, and more! For more info about this title: Canada , USA , Europe . Here's the blurb: From Dracula to...
Technology, Books and Other Neat St (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
11:11:26 : Thinking about how to rebuild sandm.co.uk. Seriously considering using Wordpress as a CMS. 14:26:14 : Windows 7 Family Pack makes it to the UK... £149.99 for three PCs. In "limited" quantities. 15:04:41 : Delving into the depths of iPhone development today... 16:07:01 : OK, who gave that child a whistle? An out of tune whistle at that... 17:05:06 : Volcanic sunset: http://sbisson.livejournal.com/970258.html...
Rob's Blog o' Stuff (Free subscription) | 08/23/2009
Three books this week, two publisher, one of which I just read.... By Blood We Live edited by John Joseph Adams ( NightShade Books Hardcover 08/17/2009) – This is the final book of the ARC I received back in June and it is another ‘definitive’ anthology from JJA. Adams is developing into a smart anthologist, publishing definitive anthologies like The Living Dead and Wastelands . Here,...
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 08/22/2009
In hardcover: Sherrilyn Kenyon's Bad Moon Rising debuts at number 1. Charlaine Harris' Dead and Gone is up one, ending its 14th week on the charts at number 10. Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's The Winds of Dune debuts at number 15. For more info about this title: Canada , USA , Europe . Stephenie Meyer's The Host is down four spots, finishing the week at number 16. Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman's...
Stomping on Yeti (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
...because it looks like he's compensating for something. I saw for the first time the ToC for Eclipse Three , an ongoing anthology series of new fiction. The Pelican Bar, Karen Joy Fowler Lotion, Ellen Klages Don’t Mention Madagascar, Pat Cadigan On the Road, Nnedi Okorafor Swell, Elizabeth Bear Useless Things, Maureen F. McHugh The Coral Heart, Jeffrey Ford It Takes Two, Nicola Griffith Sleight...
The Reading Diary of John Dupuis (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
A bit late on this, I know, but I'm about to start posting some more detailed reading notes from summer 2009, so I thought I'd clear some of this really old stuff out of the "to be posted" pile. Here goes: Clancy, Tom. The sum of all fears . New York: Putnam, 1991. 798pp. Last summer I read A Clear and Present Danger and it was starting to show some of the signs for Clancy's patented literary...
Locusts & Honey (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
I'm really looking forward to the new Harry Turtledove alternate history novel. My understanding is that in it, France and Britain went to war against Nazi Germany in 1938, rather than allow Hitler to conquer Czechoslovakia. Thus Hitler was not as prepared as he would have been a year later. Here are some other alternate WWII scenarios that I'd like to see: 1. US/UK and USSR go to war in June, 1945....
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