Orson Scott Card fans will want to get their grubby little hands on THE AUTHORIZED ENDER COMPANION by Jake Black, author of some of the Marvel Comics ENDER issues. The book is a complete, in-depth encyclopedia of all the persons, places, things and events in the Ender Universe, including character biographies, time-lines, colony histories, and [...]
Orson Scott Card fans will want to get their grubby little hands on THE AUTHORIZED ENDER COMPANION by Jake Black, author of some of the Marvel Comics ENDER issues. The book is a complete, in-depth encyclopedia of all the persons, places, things and events in the Ender Universe, including character biographies, time-lines, colony histories, and [...]
Ender in Exile: After Battle School...the Lost Years by Orson Scott Card is a worth successor to his other Ender books. It's deeply thoughtful science fiction about where our planet Earth and peoples may be headed.
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...
We've seen recently how some companies have turned copyright into something that certainly approximates a tool for extortion. Rather than threatening to break up your store with a baseball bat, they threaten to sue you if you don't pay them for infringing on their copyrights. Even in the cases where the copyright has been infringed, this whole process seems incredibly sleazy and underhanded -- and...
As I write this (I will post it later) I am working on my laptop in a cafe. I am not fooling anyone. And now I am home and it's later. skogkatt made it down for the study date, and we were virtuous together. Not only did I get 2700 words on Grail , which puts me at 103 pages and 20,000 Word words. One quarter of a goddamned book. Yeah, I had forgotten how satisfying that is. And I just filed my copy...
Curse of the Spider King is co-authored by Wayne Thomas Batson and Christopher Hopper, and it is book one in a series titled " The Berinfell Prophecies ." Judging a book by its cover is a natural and logical tool of every book buyer . Most avid readers will have bought books simply because of their cover art at least a few times in their life. Heck, that's how I found Ender's Game by Orson...
Find out what's in store for your favorite Stephen King, Orson Scott Card and Laurell K. Hamilton series in our Best–Selling Authors previews for February 2010.
There's three more The Apex Book of World SF interviews to be posted at SF Signal so stay tuned. In the meantime, here are the interviews from the previous week: Aleksandar Žiljak Anil Menon Dean Francis Alfar Tunku Halim Han Song And those curious about the upcoming Lightspeed magazine should listen to the Sofanauts with editors John Joseph Adams and Andrea Kail. I also get plugged. =) And currently...
Monsters and Rockets sez, "Sesame Street is 40 years old today! In this early clip, Grover and a little boy named Jesse define marriage. It's a cute bit, but the remarkable thing is that given recent headlines this actually plays a lot like a PSA about gay marriage. At no point do Grover and Jesse say that a married couple has to be a man and a woman, and the things they say make up a marriage...
International orgs are no stranger to conspiratorial hues. A recent article by Mormon sci-fi writer Orson Scott Card had the blogosphere buzzing more than a new book release by Glen Beck–but the ‘future U.S. Civil War’ scenario has new legs in the form of Igor Panarin: Russian analyst and ex-KGB operative Igor Panarin wants the U.S. [...]
"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...
One of the main groups spearheading the recent repeal of the state's same-sex marriage law in Maine is the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). You may recall the group from their hilariously ridiculous "Gathering Storm" ads . NOM dumped buckets of cash to overturn Maine's same-sex marriage law. An article which ran back on September 4, 2009 reports: According to state campaign finance...
As an editor, I've found point of view to be the number one problem I've encountered with authors. Then when I try to explain deep point of view their eye's glaze over. If you write romance, you need to learn how to write in deep point of view,and when to ease out. Learning the how and why of point of view will prove valuable. Here is an article I wrote on deep point of view a few years ago. I use...
Shadow Complex Walkthrough - Shadow Complex Guide & Features In Shadow Complex, you play as Jason, just some normal guy on a nice hike with some girl through some woods that lead to some underground facility and -- oh no! That girl has been kidnapped! Good thing you’re not really just any normal guy... your dad’s a military man, so you’ve got some fighting chops. Or something. I’m not quite sure, to