SF Signal (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
An excellent find by Paul Di Filippo , it's an excerpt from the DVD John W. Campbell's Golden Age of Science Fiction and features science fiction author/editor Barry N. Malzberg talking about his favorite issues of Astounding magazine.
Fantasy Book Critic (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Official John Scalzi Website Order “ The God Engines ” HERE AUTHOR INFORMATION: John Scalzi’s debut novel, Old Man’s War , was a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Novel. His other science fiction novels include Agent to the Stars , The Android’s Dream , The Ghost Brigades , The Last Colony , and Zoe’s Tale . He has also written several non-fiction books, The Sagan...
Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
But the idea that the human mind holds untapped abilities is a familiar one to anyone who has read the classics of science fiction from the mid-20th century. That was due in large part to the fascination of John W. Campbell ...
Biology in Science Fiction (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
At io9 Charlie Jane Anders wrote about the riffs on Star Wars in the Ewan McGregor-George Clooney movie The Men Who Stare at Goats . The movie is a humorous fictionalized take on Jon Ronson's (supposedly) non-fiction book by the same name , which documents the real-life US Army program to develop psychic soldiers in the 1980s. At Wired's Danger Room blog, David Hambling takes a closer look at the program...
Wands and Worlds (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
"The Author Hour" is a new internet radio show interviewing some of the biggest names in "speculative fiction, fantasy (urban, supernatural, paranormal, epic and adventure), science fiction (space opera, military and hard SF), romance, horror, young adult and children's fiction." The show is hosted by Matthew Peterson, author of Paraworld Zero, and runs on VoiceAmerica.com every...
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....
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