Making Light (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
... of figuring out how to sell particular books—I treasure his description of one of my projects, Jo Walton’s and its sequels, as “dark cozies.” He was also a passionate political liberal; for the last several years, whenever he visited Tor, we would converse hilariously about the latest outrages of the right.
SF Diplomat (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
... and Weese's Feminist Narrative and the Supernatural as well as a Paul Kincaid review of the Jonathan Strahan-edited Eclipse One anthology. There's been quite a bit of discussion of the work of David Foster Wallace. In fact, it has even seeped out into the mainstream lit publications including a nice n+1 piece by Benjamin Kunkel. Another interesting piece by Steve Biodrawski at Cinefantastique ,...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
On Tor.com, Jo Walton continues to romp through her series reviews of amazing books that she re-read this year: beloved old friends that she can't help but come back to again and again. Today, it's George RR Martin's fantasy/horror/alt history novel The Armageddon Rag -- one of those books that I've read about ten times. I even tried to sew a poncho made from neckties after reading it once....
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
... podcast: " When I Was Miss Dow " by Sonya Dorman. Video: Christopher Paolini reads from Brisingr . Jo Walton reviews George R. R. Martin's The Armageddon Rag . Cover Pr0n on the future: Bob Eggleton's cover for an upcoming issue of F&SF . John Picacio's Cover for Muse of Fire by Dan Simmons. One for aspiring writers: Publishers Weekly is holding a Book Publishing 101 seminar in New York...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
... on his recent Hugo win. @SciFi Wire: Michael Marshall Smith ( The Servants ). @SciFi Wire: Joshua Jackson , star of J.J. Abrams' upcoming show The Fringe . @AccessAtlanta: George Takei . [via File 770 ] @SciFiChick: Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry and Trevor Roth . @The Bat Segundo Show: Brent Spiner Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon ] Lilith Saintcrow is serializing her novel Selene . Here's Part...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
A gallery of John Wyndham covers . Day of the Triffids ...great book...horrible movie. [via A Different Stripe ] Free Fiction: @ Dunesteef , a new audio fiction 'zine: " Enter Sandman " by Jeff Carlson. [via SFScope ] @No Fear of the Future: " Memory " by Jayme Lynn Blaschke. @ManyBooks.net: " The Dragon of Wantley " by Owen Wister (1892). [via QuasarDragon ] @The Inferior 4: "Larisa Miusov" by Lucius...
io9 (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
People are still trying to wrap their minds around the idea of the singularity, as a rather random article in the New York Times yesterday made clear. Meanwhile, Tor's Jo Walton and Rudy... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SF Diplomat (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Last Night's BSFA meeting was an interesting affair. I was not exactly won over by Gwyneth Jones' reading, partly due to the material and partly due to the fact that I don't actually like being read to but as the...
Rudy's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
For the last three weeks I’ve been hung up revising my new novel and two of my old ones, but I hope soon to get back to thinking about a new novel. The other day I was looking at the Tor.com SF website, scanning through an interesting and well-written post by Jo Walton, “The Singularity Problem [...]
SF Diplomat (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
... of things. Bill Crider links to Andre Perkowski's Batman as seen by 1920s German Expressionism. Jo Walton on weird fiction . I also must say that Jo Walton's stuff at Tor.com has been of a really high standard. She's by far the best thing about that site. The Independent launches a campaign to save Bletchley Park, which is apparently in a terrible state. Bletchley Park featured in...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Free Fiction: @ Author's site : Neptune Crossing by Jeffrey A. Carver. @RimWorlds: Pup Comic Fairy Tale, Chapter 9 . @Strange Horizons: " Sex with Ghosts " by Sarah Kanning. @Munseys [via QuasarDragon ]: The Defiant Agents by Andre Norton. "The Sundering Flood" by William Morris. @Fantasybookspot: After the Downfall (Chapter 1) by Harry Turtledove. Interviews and Profiles: @Writers Voice: John Kessel...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Interviews and Profiles: @Crucial Pop: Tobias S. Buckell ( Sly Mongoose ). @Adventures in SciFi Publishing: Gary Philips, Doselle Young, Lilith Saintcrow, and Eldon Thompson @Dragon Page: Charles Stross ( Saturn's Children ) @Neth Space: John Scalzi ( Zoe's Tale ). @Geek Sugar: An audio interview with Ashley Eckstein (voice of Ahsoka in Clone Wars ). @Suvudu: A video interview with Sean Williams (...
