Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable: Critical Essays (Critical Ecplorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy)
Gerry Canavan (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
There's nothing I love better than interviews with Kim Stanley Robinson . TB: I understand that you live in a utopian community [called Village Homes, pictured above and below; images by Michael Corbett]. How does that work? Is it pre- or post-modern? KSR: A little of both, I guess. The model is an English village really; about eighty acres, a lot of it owned in common, so there is a “commons”...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Interviews/Profiles The Agony Column interviews Kim Stanley Robinson (podcast). David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer (podcast) (via SFWA ) Jonathan Moeller interviews Dave Smeds . The Creative Penn interviews Mur Lafferty (podcast). Lark Neville interviews Amy Grech . Fantasy Magazine interviews Garth Nix (video). Tor.com interviews Ray Bradbury (video). John Scalzi profiles Jeff VanderMeer . Fantasy...
Hi! (Books, bikes, movies and me) (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2009/11/the-utopian-kim-stanley-robinson/
Autopia (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
http://shareable.net/blog/galileo’s-dream (…) TB: Your recent “Global Warming” trilogy (40 Signs of Rain; 50 Degrees Below; 60 Days and Counting) was about global warming—which leads to a deep freeze! What do you think of Obama’s “green” agenda? Is it headed in the right directions? KSR: Climate change will mostly be warming, but that will add such energy...
Divers and Sundry (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Ah, where were these suggestions back when I was homeschooling? SFSignal (explanations for the answers below are given at that link) asks: Q: If you were teaching a high school literature class, which science fiction or fantasy books first published within the past 10 years would you include on your syllabus? Suggestions (from various authors) include the following, some of which are over 10 years...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Interviews/Profiles The Guardian profiles Margo Lanagan . The Agony Column has a recording of the SF in SF Panel Discussion Featuring Eric Simons, Kim Stanley Robinson and Terry Bisson on October 17, 2009 (podcast). TV Guide has 5 Questions with V's Scott Wolf . New York Post profiles Jonathan Lethem . Blog Critics interviews John Brown . (via Tor Books ) Genreville interviews Anton Strout . John...
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Thanks to James for posting this story on Speculative Horizons . I totally missed that last week. . . By the way, James, you're in the acknowledgements of the Speculative Horizons anthology for graciously allowing me to use the name of your blog for the title!=) Canadian fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay offers his two cents regarding genre novels not being recognized for prestigious literary award in...
The Wertzone (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
What with all the excitement over the imminent release of the next Wheel of Time novel (not the last one, but the beginning of the end), it's probably been totally overlooked by many that another, long-gestating fantasy cycle is also approaching its final volume. Katherine Kerr's Deverry Cycle is a vast, interlinked series of novels spanning several sub-series and centuries of time. The first book,...
Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Although the miseries of a cold kept me from attending any other panels at the Seattle Anarchist Bookfair this weekend, I did have the pleasure of browsing at the table of a new press that I hadn't previously heard of. PM Press is located in Oakland and though it's only about two years old has an impressive list of titles, all beautifully designed. I was pleased to see some reprint sf (work by Terry...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Rina from the excellent, free SF in SF reading series sez, <p< Join us Saturday, Oct. 17th, and meet multiple Hugo Award winner Kim Stanley Robinson and local author Eric Simons. K.S. Robinson's new book, "The Lucky Strike," is out from PM Press, as part of their new Outspoken Authors series. It begins on a lonely Pacific island, where a crew of untested men are about to take off in...
Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW: Galileo's Dream - Kim Stanley Robinson. BOOK BLURB: In a novel of stunning dimensions, the acclaimed author of the MARS trilogy brings us the story of the incredible life -- and death -- of Galileo, ...
Ambling Along the Aqueduct (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
I see that over at the Sci-fi Wire , Paul Di Filippo is asking Why does the jury that awards the Nobel Prize for Literature hate us? By "us," I mean, of course, hardcore writers and partisans of fantastika, people unafraid and unashamed to boldly identify themselves primarily with the genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror, rather than with mainstream, mimetic literature. I think I...
Asking the Wrong Questions (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Writing in The New Scientist several weeks ago, Kim Stanley Robinson caused a bit of a stir when he argued that the Booker juries were ignoring the best and most vibrant British literature by neglecting science fiction. These juries, Robinson wrote, "judge in ignorance and give their awards to what usually turn out to be historical novels."Sometimes these are fine historical novels, written...
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
I finally got hold of this first novel in Kim Stanley Robinson's 1990s Mars triology. Now I understand what the fuss was about over this series of tales which still sell well on Amazon. As the cover blurb on the...
The Strategist (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Here are several posts and articles that caught my eye recently: In a New Scientist sci-fi edition, Kim Stanley Robinson challenges eight British SF authors to write flash fiction about the world 100 years from now. Adam Elkus and John...
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