Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Penguin recently released a new short story collection centered around dragons. It's edited Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. The table of contents follows along with my quick reviews for each story. The author line-up in The Dragon Book is a bit unusual for a collection by "the masters of modern fantasy", especially considering that some of the authors in the book would likely not appreciate...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
IDW Publishing will adapt Peter S. Beagle's 1968 novel The Last Unicorn as a comic series.
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
With the Holidays just around the corner, I invited publishers to come up with special prize packs for the biggest giveaways of the year. In the next couple of weeks, you'll see similar contests cropping up, all of them a mix of autographed copies, bestselling titles, and Advance Reading Copies. The idea is to offer something that everyone will want to win. Tor Books, Orbit US, Del Rey and Bantam Spectra...
ComicList Complete (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Media Release -- Enchanting, dark, and whimsically magical, Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn has delighted fans for more than forty years. Now this enduring tale will be lushly transformed into a six-issue comic mini-series by IDW Publishing, launching in April 2010. Adapted from Beagle's original novel by writer Peter B. Gillis, and lovingly illustrated by Renae De Liz with colors by her husband...
Subterranean Press (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Just a quick note to let everyone know that Peter S. Beagle’s mammoth (over 200,000 words) Best of volume, Mirror Kingdoms, is easily on pace for its February release. We’ve just received the signature page art from Michael Wm Kaluta — one of the best such images we’ve ever seen — and will have the [...]
webBikeWorld.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Proof that you don't need to travel to another continent to find adventure!
they must need bears (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
I just got my contributor's copies of Eclipse Three (Jonathan Strahan, ed.), about which I'm tremendously excited. Not only is it full of great stories, but look at that lineup! I'm flattered and a little awed to be in such amazing company. (Inside the book, we also find Peter S. Beagle, Jeffrey Ford, Nnedi Okorafor, and others.) And now, because my cruelty is tempered by mercy, I offer you scene two...
badgerblog (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
maegwynn and I went to the Carolina for the Escapism Film Festival Friday and Saturday. Friday night: Doctor Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb - Nice print, only a bit scratchy and choppy in the middle, but the first half-hour and the last half-hour are very clean. So dark a movie maegwynn honestly wasn't sure it was supposed to be a comedy despite the presence of Slim...
they must need bears (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
So I seem to have sold a story! "The Horrid Glory of its Wings," my harpy story with bonus! title stolen from Peter S. Beagle, to tor.com. It forms a nice sort of thematic argument of diptych with my other tor.com story, "The Girl who Sang Rose Madder," but there are no zombies in this one. And that, officially, is the very last short story I had both written and unsold. I wonder...
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Dybbuk painting possession. 3 out of 5 http://www.webscription.net/chapters/1597801496/1597801496___4.htm
The Written World (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
This book won't be out until next year, but it looks really good! Warriors - Edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois It includes: George R.R. Martin (Will read one day...) Cecilia Holland (Will be reading a book by her in October) Joe Haldeman (Never heard of him) Robin Hobb (Yay!) Lawrence Block (Been meaning to read) Tad Williams (Been meaning to read) Joe Lansdale (Never heard of) Peter...
Gossamer Obsessions (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Some of the awards have been given out already (congratulations Book Smugglers !) but Book Blogger Appreciation Week continues. Today, bloggers will interview other bloggers about blogging (and other things). Today, I will be interviewing Beatrice from My Kingdom for a Book . She comments and reviews on fantasy novels (which I love) and paranormal romances (which I am slowly, gradually coming to love)....
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 09/14/2009
More free goodness from top-tier talent -- this time in audio form -- from an excellent resource: Free Speculative Fiction Online : Mike Allen: " An Invitation via Email " (Weird Tales, July 2008) Kevin J. Anderson: " Newts " (Jim Baen's Universe, April 2007) Steve Aylett: " Gigantic " (Disco 2000 Anthology, 1998) Paolo Bacigalupi: " Pump Six " (Pump Six and...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
The website Tor.com has jumped into the publishing business, releasing a print-on-demand edition of David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer 's " Year’s Best Fantasy 9 ." The publishing venture will be treated as a Macmillan imprint, separate from Tor Books . The book will be sold at Tor.com, as well as online booksellers like Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Among other stories, the...
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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