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Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The latest issue of Science Fiction Studies , a special issue titled "Science Fiction and Sexuality," arrived in mailbox this week. I expect I'll be posting on the issue itself soon, but in the meantime, I thought the many contributors of The WisCon Chronicles, Vol. 2: Provocative Essays on Feminism, Race, Revolution, and the Future would like to know that the issue includes a lengthy, strongly...
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Velvet Threads (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Originally published at tansyrr.com . You can comment here or there . I just finished reading Flirting with Pride & Prejudice , a collections of pop culture style essays on P&P, edited by Jennifer Crusie. It’s the first of the BenBella Smart Pop Book s I’ve actually read, though I was over at their website recently, geeking out at the range of books they have available and the...
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SF Signal (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
REVIEW SUMMARY: Bring on the Li-Fi! MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: 19 stories and one introduction attempting to reconcile mainstream literature that's science fiction and science fiction that's accepted by the mainstream. MY REVIEW: PROS: A lot of well-written reprint stories, 5 of which were outstanding. CONS: No outright bad story, but there were 3 which didn't really entertain me as much as the others....
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The Pequod (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
I have just posted a review of an interesting novel by Karen Joy Fowler , entitled The Case of the Imaginary Detective (also published as Wit's End in the United States). The novel - a sort of detective fiction, but really concerned about authorship and the nature of writing - was quite interesting in a postmodern vein. However, the review I wrote used the novel to think more generally about the way...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests have the most successful record of discovering new talent in the field of speculative fiction. In their 25 year history, they have honored over 600 winners, many who have since become top names in science fiction and fantasy publishing -- names like Dave Wolverton, Jo Beverley, Nina Kiriki Hoffman,...
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Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
From Publishers Weekly With the help of SF author Karen Joy Fowler (billed as consultant), editors Le Guin ( Tehanu ) and Attebery ( Strategies.
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Velvet Threads (Free subscription) | 09/19/2009
Karen Joy Fowler, "The Pelican Bar," Eclipse 3 - an extraordinary horror story about a teenage girl sent away to a hideous reformation home, the torture she and her fellow inmates suffer, and the fantasy she holds on to in order to survive. Like many Fowler stories, the speculative content of this one is either subtle or dubious (my money is on subtle) but it makes you want to push the boundaries...
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The Swivet [Colleen Lindsay] (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
More specifically, writerly-type people are talking about my client Alan DeNiro 's forthcoming debut novel Total Oblivion, More or Less . I'm thrilled to share with you three outstanding quotes for Alan's book: “A wonderfully weird, fun, touching, heartfelt and memorable novel. Imagine if Huck Finn had been living in post-apocalypse America, and Terry Pratchett had been promoted to God, with...
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Neth Space (Free subscription) | 09/04/2009
So, a couple days ago I reached a technical milestone – the SiteMeter hit counter that I put on the blog within a couple of days of it’s creation back in February 2006 officially went over 100,000 visitors. Of course, this is something of an imaginary milestone since SiteMeter reportedly misses up to 30% of visitors and since something around half of my readership occurs through RSS feeds...
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Mark Lord's Writing Blog (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
I saw this over at Enter the Octopus and felt to get the word out - looks like an excellent - a number of short interviews with the likes of Peter Beagle, Karen Joy Fowler, Michael Swanwick, Mary Rickert, Jeffrey Ford, John Kessel, Delia Sherman, Ellen Klages, Gene Wolfe, Charles de Lint, and Fantasy and Science Fiction publisher Gordon Van Gelder himself.The interviews are to mark the release of
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Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Check out the latest issues of Ideomancer and Clarkesworld (bonus points for the interview with Shweta Narayan, Angela Slatter, Genevieve Valentine, etc.) and the Diet Soap Podcast . And just a reminder: The Manila International Book Fair starts on September 16 so you know where those paychecks should be going to (sorry, here in the Philippines, book fair = book sale). Must plug Sheila Finch on The...
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SF Signal (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
Interviews & Profiles: John Scalzi turns the Whatever mike over to Malinda Lo , author of Ash . Agony Column podcast-interviews Peter S. Beagle, Karen Joy Fowler, Michael Swanwick, and M. Rickert . War Rocket Ajax podcast-interviews Jess Nevins . The latest BookBanter podcast features Seanan McGuire ( Rosemary and Rue ). AWARDS NEWS: Pawel Dembowski writes in to tell us that the Polish Janusz...
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14theditch (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
I'm happy to report that The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction 60th Anniversary Anthology is now out in the stores. I know because I bought a copy in upstate New York this morning as we were wending our way home from our trip further north to deliver Derek to school. It's a great looking book with a fantastic lineup of short fiction. If you'd like to hear a series of interviews that Rick...
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SF Signal (Free subscription) | 08/20/2009
Here is the table of contents for the upcoming Tachyon Publications anthology The Secret History of Science Fiction edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, which reprints stories published from 1971-2007 making the case for the convergence of mainstream fiction and literary sf: "Angouleme" by Thomas M. Disch "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin "Ladies...
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