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...
So my fantasy Becomes reality And I must be what I must be And face tomorrow. -- from Simon & Garfunkel, "Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall" Ever since I was a teenager, I have found myself able to get emotionally entangled with books and good stories. My first journeys to Middle Earth in the Tolkein books were a prime example. I was unable to put them down because I had been so pulled...
In 2009, the Romance Writers of America (RWA) gave RITA awards for Best Contemporary Series Romance and Best Contemporary Series Romance: Suspense/Adventure to writers published by Harlequin. Following a dubious business decision ( Carina ) and now a Bad Business Decision ( Horizons ), Harlequin "no longer meets the requirements to be eligible for RWA-provided conference resources." With...
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...
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction : 60th Anniversary Anthology. Posted by mervih under Roger Zelazny, Ursula Le Guin, fantasy, science fiction , short story · Leave a Comment. Edited by Gordon Van Gelder ...
One of my favorite writers of all time, Roger Zelazny, came up in the interesting ongoing discussion between Matt Sturges and James Enge. That seems a thin thread on which to elbow my way into the conversation, but it will have to suffice, since A) I’d been preparing to write about this anyway, and B) [...]
Sci-Fi Songster John Anealio has added a video feature to his musical presentations. Lonesome October Night was inspired by Roger Zelazny’s “A Night in the Lonesome October”. Related posts:Video: Sense and Sensibility and Sea MonstersR.A. Salvatore on the Role of the Writer in Video GamesVideo: Jeff Somers takes Comicon Related posts: Video: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters...
I mentioned 350 Words in a previous post. I dug up an old piece, " Vanport: 2050 ", and republished it on 350 Words as " The New Vanport Flood ". Here's the interesting thing. The original piece was 600+ words. I cut it by almost half, and managed not to lose anything I considered essential. (Except, I see that the 350 Words site seems to have destroyed the paragraph breaks. Oh,...
A seamless blend of writing and art that's a tribute to series creator Jack Kirby and s-f master Roger Zelazny. Sponsored Topics: Neil Gaiman - John Romita - Jack Kirby - Arts - Fiction
Tim Powers confirms earlier rumors: "I can now say that Disney optioned On Stranger Tides and will use elements of the book in the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie." On Stranger Tides is about a pirate named Jack who goes in search of the Fountain of Youth Interviews & Profiles: Alethea Kontis interviews Cherie Priest , author of the fun-filled Boneshaker . Agony Column podcast-interviews...
While Galaxy was my favorite magazine as a teenager, it lost my loyalty after Frederik Pohl passed the editorial baton to the much-inferior Ejler Jakobsson. Soon thereafter I started reading Edward Ferman’s Fantasy & Science Fiction , and while it did not offer the same variety of future fiction, tending to lean more towards fantasy and contemporary sf, it was still a damned good magazine...
I used to read a lot of science fiction in my youth, and I still have a few favourites - Roger Zelazny (Lord of Light), Brian Aldiss (Non-Stop and others), J G Ballard (The Drowned World, The Crystal World, Drought). These are older works; I haven't read much recent sci-fi. However, during my summer break I picked up my son's copy of Iain M Banks' Consider Phlebas, and I have to confess I'm hooked...
Fred's Reading Report (August 2009) Wow! Year's almost over...in some ways. How so? Books read? 223! The train keeps on a-rolling! August included... Larry Correia: Monster Hunter International (highly recommended as a very fun read). William Gibson: Pattern Recognition (better this time through, but that seems to be my usual procedure with Gibson...first time through, so-so, subsequent read, appreciate...
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