Philippine Genre Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
Check out this link and see some classic science fiction and fantasy book covers. I'm pretty sure I actually saw the Robert Silverberg book when I was much younger.
io9 (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Science fiction publishing imploded in the 1960s, driving writers like Robert Silverberg to write sleazy sex novels — Silverberg wrote 150 trashy novels in five years, explaining that "A dozen... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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...
Earth and other unlikely worlds (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A few years ago, Jonathan Lethem published an essay in The Village Voice, ‘Close Encounters: The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction’, in which he decried the close-mindedness of the genre and sketched an alternate history in which Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow won the Nebula instead of Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous With Rama in 1973, leading to a reconciliation...
Stomping on Yeti (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Over at a Dribble of Ink , Aidan is showing off , praising , promoting , acknowledging that the cover for the 2010 Swords & Dark Magic anthology has been released. I don't normally post covers Im not impressed with but this is an anthology I'm really looking forward to. To be fair, it's not a terrible cover but it's definitely not as strong as it could be. I think this is a case where the anthology...
This Writing Life (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
November 13, 2009 Kristine Kathryn Rusch has written a whole slew of articles on the freelance business that can be applied to writing novels or running just about any type of business. She's recently written a series on "success." Highly recommended. In response, writer Brad R. Torgersen wrote a checklist of when he will be a successful profession writer. It looks like this: (X) …...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Asimov's has posted the table of contents (with samples) for the January 2010 issue: Novelettes "Marya and the Pirate" by Geoffrey A. Landis "The Good Hand" by Robert Reed "The Jekyll Island Horror" by Allen M. Steele Short Stories "Conditional Love" by Felicity Shoulders "A Letter from the Emperor" by Steve Rasnic Tem "Wonder House" by Chris...
42 Challenge (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I've finished the challenge. Since 42 is the perfect number for this challenge I won't add any extras to my list. I will be back when the next challenge launches in December. I had loads of fun doing the 42 Challenge. It ended up being one of my favorites. My completed list is: The Perfect Infestation by Carol Emshwiller Seafarer's Blood by Albert E. Cowdrey Dance of Shadows by Fred Chappell All in...
Visions of Paradise (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Before the Science Fiction Book Club fell victim to a “re-organization” by their new owners a few years ago, assistant editor Andrew Wheeler was publishing a series of original collections of novellas that contained some of the best stuff being published at the time. They included four volumes of Jonathan Strahan’s Best Short Novels as well as such original novella collections as...
The World in the Satin Bag (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
There was an enormous book sale here in Gainesville over the last few days and I thought I’d let you all know what I got (a lot of stuff, actually). Next time, in April, I don’t think I will be going quite as all out, mostly because I don’t have as much need for a lot of books anymore. I intentionally went this year trying to find things to use for my research, and now I’m only...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Lou Anders has posted the table of contents for Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword and Sorcery , the anthology he co-edited with Jonathan Strahan, which will be available June 22, 2010 from Harper Eos: Introduction: Check Your Dark Lord at the Door by Lou Anders & Jonathan Strahan "Goats of Glory" by Steven Erikson "Tides Elba: A Tale of the Black Company" by Glen Cook...
Visions of Paradise (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
The late 1960s were my “Golden Age” of science fiction, and I discovered most of my favorite writers during that era: Robert Silverberg, Clifford D. Simak, Roger Zelazny, Jack Vance, Ursula K Le Guin, and the subject of this review, Samuel R. Delany. Delany has published the least f&sf of anybody on this list, but because of that his average quality has probably been higher than any...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Asimov's has posted the table of contents (with samples) for the December 2009 issue: Novelettes "A Large Bucket, and Accidental Godlike Mastery of Spacetime" by Benjamin Crowell "Some Like It Hot" by Brian Stableford Short Stories "A Lovely Little Christmas Fire" by Jeff Carlson "As Women Fight" by Sara Genge "Animus Rights" by John Shirley "Angie's...
Rough Edges (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
This is another recent release from Nonstop Press , the publisher of the Robert Silverberg book I posted about earlier in the week. It’s equally as entertaining, too, if more awkward in its size. Don’t expect me to define what a cult magazine is or why some magazines were included in this book and others weren’t. One of the editors, Luis Ortiz, covers that in his introduction. The...
Rough Edges (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
I’ve probably never read as much of Robert Silverberg’s work as I should have: several of his early science-fiction novels from the Fifties, a couple of his pseudonymous sleaze novels published in the Sixties, and maybe a dozen short stories ranging throughout his career. Lately, though, I’ve been thinking that I really ought to expand on that and especially need to read some of his...
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