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badgerblog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
....Do you think two sick twisted trees ever made bonsai out of one another? is a lovely turn of phrase from Theodore Sturgeon 's short story "Slow Sculpture" [1] that reminds me of this unpleasant-looking and oddly sweet film about deeply twisted people. Went to the Colony Monday night to see Choke , adapted from the Chuck Palahniuk novel. The characters grow, change, and the film displays a heart....
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Fortress Of Fortitude (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
The Heap is the original muck-encrusted swamp monster … unless you count Solomon Grundy or Theodore Sturgeon’s It. (There are probably other examples as well … but let’s not get carried with all this, Fortress Fans.) At any rate, The Heap was the first Man/Swamp-Thing to pop up as a reoccuring anti-hero in a comic-book feature (Hillman [...]
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Taliesin meets the vampires (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
Author: Theodore Sturgeon First published: 1956 Contains spoilers The blurb : “Theodore Sturgeon’s dark and foreboding look at the vampire myth was an instant classic when originally published in 1956. When George Smith is arrested for assaulting a senior officer, a military psychiatrist is assigned to the case. The secret of George’s past is unearthed, and a history of blood lust and murder. Innovatively...
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Notes From Coode Street (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
The winners of the John W Campbell Memorial Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award have been announced, and I’m delighted with the winners. Kathy Goonan’s In War Times has won the novel award. The joint winners of the Sturgeon award are “Tideline” by Elizabeth Bear and “Finisterra” by David Moles, both of which are terrific. [...]
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they must need bears (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Good news all around! (1) Since it's in the newspaper, I guess I am allowed to talk about this now. David Moles and I will be sharing the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short science fiction work in 2007 . I'm deeply honored by this, and very sad that I couldn't be there. (I wanted to, very much, but the travel and work schedule... was already topped out.) (2) Blood & Iron ebook . Yay!
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Barry Ritholtz submits: "Ninety percent of science fiction is crap, but then ninety percent of everything is crap." - Theodore Sturgeon Complete Story »
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The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Ninety percent of science fiction is crap, but then ninety percent of everything is crap.” -Theodore Sturgeon > Yesterday morning, Portfolio's Felix Salmon had a post "Adventures in Technical Analysis, Jim Cramer Edition." I cannot put aside the fact that Cramer is not, and has never been, any sort of technician. We do not dismiss medicine because accountants cannot do open heart surgery, so it seems...
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io9 (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Sturgeon's Law was too generous, argues science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer. Writer Theodore Sturgeon said that 90 percent of science fiction was "crud" (or "crap," depending on where he's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Electric Spec Editor Blog (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Award have been announced by the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction at the University of Kansas. The Sturgeon Award is for the best short science fiction of the previous year. The juried awards will be presented on July 11th. And the finalists are (drum roll, please): Laird Barron "The Forest" Elizabeth Bear "Tideline" Ted Chiang "The Merchant and
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14theditch (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
My story that appears in The Coyote Road , edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling for Viking Juvenile, " The Dreaming Wind ," is one of a dozen short fiction works nominated for this year's Theodore Sturgeon Award . Here's the entire list at this link: http://www2.ku.edu/~sfcenter/sturgeon-finalists.htm The ones on the list I've read, by Laird Barron, David Moles, Kij Johnson, and Karen Joy Fowler,...
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Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
This post is part of the cult fiction series, this issue #4 Norman Spinrad on French collection Chute Libre Chute Libre is/was a French publishing imprint directed by Gérard Leibovici. They published, amongst others, the translated work of the new wave of science fiction authors Philip José Farmer, Norman Spinrad, Michael Moorcock, Roger Zelazny and Theodore [...]
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
The Baum Plan for Financial Independence: and Other Stories, a short story collection by sci-fi writer and fantasy writer John Kessel, is a new freebie from Small Beer Press. Download it here. Small Beer, in Northampton, Massachusetts, earlier promoted Kelly Link that way. She and her husband manage the Press, which published her Stranger Things Happen, [...]
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Book Calendar (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi is a short story collection. It is mainly science fiction. The short story, The Calorie Man, won the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. This collection comes from a relatively new press, http://www.nightshadebooks.com It looks like they have an excellent selection of new science fiction and fantasy titles. This book is c2008. The style of writing is very...
