Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable: Critical Essays (Critical Ecplorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy)
io9 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Orbit Books signed Kim Stanley Robinson to a three-book deal in both the U.S. and U.K., and the first book of that deal takes place in the year 2312, when the human race has abandoned the Earth.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SF Signal (Free subscription) | yesterday
Interviews /Profiles Confessions of an Aca/Fan interviews Delia Sherman ( Interfictions 2 ). Big Hollywood profiles Harlan Ellison . ActuSF interviews Kevin J. Anderson . Marshall Payne interviews John Kessel . Pat's Fantasy Hotlist interviews Mark Charan Newton . Robert Freeman Wexler interviews Alan DeNiro and Daryl Gregory . John Scalzi profiles Jeff Carlson . SCI FI Wire talks to Rob Zombie about...
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
This is our second Holiday mega-giveaway, and it's another good one! Del Rey and Bantam Spectra teamed up for this contest to offer plenty of cool stuff! Their prize pack includes: - A signed copy of China Mieville’s The City & the City ( Canada , USA , Europe ) - A signed copy of John Birmingham’s Without Warning ( Canada , USA , Europe ) - A signed copy of Naomi Novik’s In His...
Working notes (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
I've been reading Kim Stanley Robinson's unbelievable Mars trilogy lately--alongside Fredric Jameson's amazing Archaeologies of the Future--and this nicely happened to coincide with NASA's mission to crash Lcross into the moon in search for water. It's coincidental because the presence of water opens up an issue of colonization that lies behind the entire project in the Mars books specifically
The Eternal Golden Braid (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Prepare the Red Matter! So now that it is finally out on DVD, I finally watched the "reboot" of Star Trek . So, Fred, you're a trekkie from way back, what'cha think of it? Sorry, but I am not a trekkie or a trekker. I am a science fiction fan who is a big fan of the original Trek series (but not to the extent that I ever owned a costume or even attended a Trek convention, or even, past a...
Visions of Paradise (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
This is the fifth time I’ve picked my favorite books of the preceding decade, and I cannot help but wonder how many more chances I will have to do so in the future? Twice more? Three times perhaps? Scary thoughts. Before I begin, here is a brief review of my selections from past decades: The 1960s: Best Novel : Lord of Light / Roger Zelazny Best Short Fiction : The Star Pit / Samuel R. Delany...
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
There's a fascinating interview with the normally reclusive Cormac McCarthy up at the Wall Street Journal , in which he talks among other things about how he feels about the filming of his novels and how conversations with his 11-year old son, John found their way into The Road . (BTW, if you are thinking that it would be nice to have an autographed copy of the book, the only ones in existence belong...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Not again! Another 10-year climate 'tipping point' warning issued -- Despite fact that UN began 10-Year 'Climate Tipping Point' in 1989! | Climate Depot As early as 1989, the UN was already trying to sell their “tipping point” rhetoric on the public. See: U.N. Warning of 10-Year 'Climate Tipping Point' Began in 1989 – Excerpt: According to July 5, 1989, article in the Miami Herald,...
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...
Big Dumb Object (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Via Niall at TorqueControl comes two interviews with Kim Stanley Robinson: one in The Guardian which I’d seen and one at Shareable which I hadn’t seen. In the Shareable interview KSR talks about utopias and how they are full...
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
If you go home, turn on the laptop, the TV – almost anything could be reported. The world has become a science fiction novel, everything's changing so quickly. Science fiction turns out to be the realism of our time, which is very satisfying. ... Depending what we do in next 20 years, it's very hard to be plausible, to say this is what's going to happen. At that point you can't write science...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Here's the Guardian's Alison Flood's detailed look at Kim Stanley Robinson's latest novel, Galileo's Dream, a fictionalized biography of Galileo that features time-travel. What he came up with was three different temporal dimensions - the first moving very fast, at the speed of light, the second very slow and "vibrating slowly back and forth, as if the universe itself were a single string or bubble",...
The Eternal Golden Braid (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL... Earlier in the year I was concentrating on audiobooks during the daily commute and the regular trips out to visit the parental units. Lately I've been downloading podcasts and listening to them. Here's a round-up of what has been making the rotation through the iPod. The Agony Column: The Mother and Father of All Literary Podcasts. A bit hard to navigate the archives...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The novelist tells Alison Flood about time travel, Galileo and why SF writers aren't prophets any more As his publisher Jane Johnson, an author herself, puts the finishing touches to a roast chicken in the kitchen, Kim Stanley Robinson – Stan – tries to explain his new theory of time travel, worked out for his latest novel, Galileo's Dream. "Time is strangely braided. I see Jane today,...
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
"What is valuable is the presence of other writers of your same generation who are doing the same sort of thing you are, and writing the kind of stories that you aspire to write. When “Hardfought” by Greg Bear or “Hive” by Bruce Sterling or “My Brother's Keeper” by Pat Cadigan, or “Black Air” by Kim Stanley Robinson first appeared, they all sent...
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