wBW Book Review: I See By My Outfit by Peter S. Beagle
webBikeWorld.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Proof that you don't need to travel to another continent to find adventure!
Peter S. Beagle
5Vote!
5Vote!
i dreamed that i was dying. i saw my angeline.
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...
Videos
3Vote!
Escapism Film Festival 2009: funny atom bombs, unicorns, Velveeta, psychic kids, Oz, comedy chases
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...
5Vote!
my johnny was a shoemaker, but now he's gone to sea
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...
Explore : Fine Arts
4Vote!
Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel - Peter S. Beagle
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
Explore : Fine Arts
4Vote!
Sunday Book Coveting - Short Story Anthology
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...
4Vote!
Book Blogger Appreciation Week Day Two: Interview Swap!
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)....
8Vote!
120 More Awesome and Free SF/F/H Audio Stories
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...
4Vote!
Tor.com Publishes Its First Book
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...
5Vote!
September 3, 2009 Links and Plugs
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...
9Vote!
SF Tidbits for 9/2/09
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...
3Vote!
R.I.P. IV Challenge
In Spring It Is the Dawn (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
As if to celebrate the fact that it's almost time for Carl's 4th annual R.I.P. Challenge , it's been slightly cooler here the last couple of days. It's certainly been a nice respite from the usual heat and humidity. I can't wait to read some gothic, spooky, chilly reads so I'm signing up for Peril the First , of which the goal is to "read Four books of any length, from any subgenre of scary stories...
1Vote!
TOC: Best American Fantasy 3 Edited by Kevin Brockmeier
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
The website for the anthology Best American Fantasy 3 , guest-edited by Kevin Brockmeier with series editor being Matthew Cheney, has just posted the table of contents : "Safe Passage" by Ramona Ausubel (One Story, Issue 106) "Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel" by Peter S. Beagle (Strange Roads) "Cardiology" by Ryan Boudinot (Five Chapters, 2008) "The Pentecostal...
- Best American Fantasy 3 Contents & Recommended Reading - The Mumpsimus
3Vote!
Best American Fantasy Press Release
14theditch (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
The Best American Fantasy series has undergone a series of important changes, starting with the publisher. Underland Press has acquired the Best American Fantasy series, and will publish the third volume, “Real Unreal,” in January of 2010. BAF4, tentatively titled “Imaginary Borders,” will appear in March 2011. BAF3 contains work by, among others, Stephen King, Lisa Goldstein,...
4Vote!
Jonathan Strahan must have a small rocket...
Stomping on Yeti (Free subscription) | 08/21/2009
...because it looks like he's compensating for something. I saw for the first time the ToC for Eclipse Three , an ongoing anthology series of new fiction. The Pelican Bar, Karen Joy Fowler Lotion, Ellen Klages Don’t Mention Madagascar, Pat Cadigan On the Road, Nnedi Okorafor Swell, Elizabeth Bear Useless Things, Maureen F. McHugh The Coral Heart, Jeffrey Ford It Takes Two, Nicola Griffith Sleight...