SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
David Anthony Durham kicked Fat Fantasy ass with Acacia , which ended up winning him the most recent John W. Campbell Award for the best new science fiction or fantasy writer. He continues his extreme makeover of the Tolkienian epic in The Other Lands: Book Two of The Acacia Trilogy .
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Ravening violet guns to sort out those protoplasmic chameleons. 3 out of 5 http://leighdbrackett.wordpress.com/about/campbell-john-w-the-brain-stealers-of-mars/
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
The Vault of Horror offers a top-30 list: 1. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) 2. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) 3. "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe (1845) 4. Salem’s Lot by Stephen King (1975) 5. At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft (1931) 6. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stephenson (1886) 7. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1959)...
Rough Edges (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
I’ve probably never read as much of Robert Silverberg’s work as I should have: several of his early science-fiction novels from the Fifties, a couple of his pseudonymous sleaze novels published in the Sixties, and maybe a dozen short stories ranging throughout his career. Lately, though, I’ve been thinking that I really ought to expand on that and especially need to read some of his...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
In case you missed them, here are The Top 15 SF Signal Posts for September 2009: MIND MELD: What Book Introduced You to Science Fiction? MIND MELD: What Can Worldcon and Comic-Con Learn From Each Other? MIND MELD: Behind the Scenes...How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created (Part 1) REVIEW: Boneshaker by Cherie Priest MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Literary Villains in...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
[ SF Signal extends Best Wishes to Joe Haldeman , who took an unexpected trip to the hospital. Get well, Joe! ] Interviews and Profiles: @New Statesman: Iain M. Banks ( Transition ). [via Bibliophile Stalker ] Suite101.com interviews Tamora Pierce . @SciFi Scanner: Robert J. Sawyer . David Anthony Durham offers his Thoughts on Winning the John W Campbell Award . David B. Coe says With Worldbuilding,...
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Thanks for the greetings! Anyway, back to work... Interviews Angela Handley interviews Peadar O'Guilin . GenreVille TV (video) interviews Chris Genoa and Andrew J. Fox . Willis Couvillier interviews Darrel Schweitzer . Anthony Sullivan interviews Nancy Kress . Advice/Articles Meghan O'Rourke on The Man Who Made Oz . Paul Di Filippo on Fantastical Conceits and Turbulent Souls . S. Boyd Taylor On Writing...
Visions of Paradise (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
The following ABCdery originally appeared in Tom Sadler’s fanzine The Reluctant Famulus #71: A is for Isaac ASIMOV, one of the stalwarts of sf’s “Golden Years” B is for Michael BISHOP, who wrote my single favorite novel Brittle Innings in the 1990s. So where the heck has he been the past 15 years? C is for John W. CAMPBELL, one of the great writers of the 1930s who became the...
Fantasy Book Critic (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
Official David Anthony Durham Website Order “ The Other Lands ” HERE (US) + HERE (UK) Read An Excerpt HERE Read Fantasy Book Critic’s Review of “ Acacia: The War with the Mein ” AUTHOR INFORMATION: David Anthony Durham is the author of “Gabriel’s Story” —winner of two American Library Association awards—“ Walk Through Darkness”...
Fantasy Debut (Free subscription) | 09/05/2009
Today, I got two new things. One was a wide-screen monitor, which replaced the old-fashioned CRT monitor that died last night. Ho hum. The other was a package from Random House/Doubleday. Which I opened eagerly, to glimpse a book within. Which I eagerly ripped out of the package. Which, upon beholding the cover, I shrieked a most girlish, " Yay! " I do believe my feet even left the ground....
Gerry Canavan (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Took a long nap today. That wasn't bad. Here are some links. * Lots of speculation today about what sort of health care bill could actually come out of the reconciliation sausage factory . Meanwhile, the always-wrong Politico is once again reporting Obama will back off the public option entirely . * Game of the night: Canabalt . * Classic SF of the night: John W. Campbell's "Who Goes There"...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
REVIEW SUMMARY : Campbell's original story holds up amazingly well. MY RATING : BRIEF SYNOPSIS : The members of an Antarctic expedition encounter a shape-shifting creature from another world. MY REVIEW : PROS : Excellent psychological science fiction thriller. CONS : Occasionally awkward prose; largely interchangeable characters. BOTTOM LINE : This is the definitive publication of Campbell's classic...
Nancy's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
All right, not all SF movies are all bad. Yesterday I saw DISTRICT 9, the new alien-invasion movie. This invasion, however, is not by conquerors but by malnourished refugees whose ship has broken down over Johannesburg, South Africa. [WARNING: SPOILERS COMING UP!] Humans ferry the weak survivors, who are insect-like ugly, to a compound on Earth. Later the compound is in the way of urban development,...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
Geoff Ryman, author of the stellar novel The Child Garden (a book in which cancer is cured with the side effect of reducing human lifespan to 30 or so), needs your help: I'm looking for a composer to collaborate on a podcast project, an audio version of my novel The Child Garden. The novel is in part about a musician who sets all of Dante's Divine Comedy to music. I'm hoping to provide excerpts from...
Fantasy Debut (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Congratulations to David Anthony Durham , winner of the John W Campbell Award for Best New Writer ! I loved his novel, Acacia , and I can't wait to read The Other Lands next month.
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