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The first review for ElizabethBear’s Seven for a Secret is in, from Green Man Review: “Where New Amsterdam had a strong action element to it, here the pyrotechnics are emotional. And where New Amsterdam was in many ways about beginnings, Seven For a Secret is about endings, and last acts of defiance against the [...]
... and recently tattooed matociquala to answer. 1. How did you come up with the idea of the story? Bear: We started writing it on a lark, more or less, as a critique of wish-fulfillment companion animal fantasies we have known, and it kind of took on a life of its own. Monette: We were talking about some of the unexamined assumptions of companion animal fantasy, and said, "Wouldn't it be fun...
The current feature at the Page 69 Test: ElizabethBear's All the Windwracked Stars. About the book, from the publisher: It all began with Ragnarok, with the Children of the Light and the Tarnished ones battling to the death in the ice and the dark. At the end of the long battle, one Valkyrie survived, wounded, and one valraven – the steeds of the valkyrie. Because they lived, Valdyrgard...
... explains a lot about why Sonny Liston was always feared more than revered. When I came across ElizabethBear's short story, "Sonny Liston Takes the Fall" in The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy , I was pretty surprised. You don't expect to find a boxing story in a SFF collection (actually you don't find a lot of sports stories in this genre, period). Bear does something...
... Land ). @Adventure in SciFi Publishing: Tom Lloyd ( The Stormcaller ). @Agony Column Podcast: ElizabethBear ( All the Windwracked Stars ) and Jonathan Carroll ( The Ghost in Love ). Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon ] @Fururismic: " Willpower " by Jason Stoddard. @Strange Horizons: " The Same Old Story " by Naomi Bloch. @Fantasy Magazine: " Geddarien " by Rose Lemberg. @Hub:...
Nightshade Books has posted the contents of The Best SF and Fantasy of the Year Vol. 3 edited by Jonathan Strahan, due out next year. "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang "Shoggoths in Bloom" by ElizabethBear "Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel" by Peter S. Beagle "Fixing Hanover" by Jeff VanderMeer " The Gambler " by Paolo Bacigalupi "The Dust Assassin" by Ian McDonald "Virgin" by Holly...
Jonathan Strahan’s Best SF and Fantasy of the Year, vol 3 (via, annotated for venue of first publication and online availability): Exhalation - Ted Chiang (Eclipse 2) Shoggoths in Bloom - ElizabethBear (Asimov’s, March; online) Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel - Peter S. Beagle (Strange Roads) Fixing Hanover - Jeff VanderMeer (Extraordinary Engines) The Gambler - [...]
... Gaiman's Coraline . The idea of having my little book treated the same as books by John Scalzi , ElizabethBear , Ray Bradbury , and Neal Stephenson was awesome, but I wasn't sure if it was a good idea - I didn't want to put out yet another edition of a book people already owned, and I really didn't want to do something that would devalue the 300 . I talked it over with Anne, sought...
Dear Sir: That any one dog should meet in one lifetime with so many misadventures seems to me an indicator of irresponsible pet ownership. I remain, yours sincerely, ElizabethBear
Interviews & Profiles: @Agony Column Podcast: Dan Simmons ( Drood ). @Chasing Ray: Editor Ellen Datlow ( Year's Best Fantasy and Horror and Inferno: New Tales of Terror and the Supernatural ). @SFX: Toby Frost ( God Emperor of Didcot ). @Book Spot Central: Jetse de Vries (former Interzone co-editor and editor of the upcoming "optimistic sf" anthology Shine ). @Blogging the Muse: ElizabethBear...
Tennesia Malcolm, Staff ReporterFantan Mojah performing at Tru-Juice Rebel Salute last year. - file WHEN OWEN Moncrieffe burst on to the music scene in 2004, he was, like most upcoming reggae singers at the time, a turban-clad Rasta with an unusual moniker - Fantan Mojah.He championed the plight of the poverty-stricken with the popular song, Hungry. A distinguishing feature that set the St Elizabeth-born...
Publishers Weekly has posted the Best Books of the Year 2008 with these entries in the SF/Fantasy/Horror category: The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi Ink and Steel by ElizabethBear City at the End of Time by Greg Bear Fallen by Tim Lebbon Filter House by Nisi Shawl Half a Crown by Jo Walton
Best of the year lists, that is. Publisher’s Weekly says the best genre books of 2008 are – The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams (Night Shade) Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi (Night Shade) Ink and Steel by ElizabethBear (Roc) City at the End of Time by Greg Bear (Del Rey) Fallen by Tim Lebbon [...]
... which I have to say I found a little disappointing, a good long column by Rich Horton riffing on ElizabethBear’s suggestion that different generations of sf writer don’t read each other, and Graham Sleight on Ursula K. Le GuinBrian Francis Slattery discusses fantasy and magic realism The new Internet Review of SF has an article on silent SF movies , Nader Elhefnawy on The New Space...
... finishing . Got it? Yay! Let's move on to some older stuff: five simple ways to Just Keep Writing ElizabethBear, Cherie Priest, and John Scalzi are three authors who are as generous with their advice as they are awesome and successful. One more post with lots of links to and wisdom from ElizabethBear . Five writing lessons I wish I'd learned the easy way. Even Neil...
