Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Dogs by Nancy Kress. About the book, from the publisher:The treat of terrorism and biological warfare becomes all too real when the danger comes from a family's most cherished pets. Tessa Sanderson, ex-FBI agent, has moved to a sleepy Maryland town in order to escape her tragic past. When the town's beloved dogs begin viciously attacking pet owners...
Confessions of a Science Librarian (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Nancy Kress has long been one of my favourite sf authors and her new book Dogs looks pretty cool. Here she is talking about it on John Scalzi's Whatever blog: In 1998, four years after it first came out, I read Richard Preston’s non-fiction bestseller, The Hot Zone , which harrowingly details the importation of monkeys infected with Ebola into the United States. The monkeys were housed...
Autopia (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
(((I love it when science fiction writers talk perfect good sense about eventualities that have never happened and may never ever happen.))) http://futurismic.com/2008/07/03/why-nancy-kress-has-gone-to-the-dogs/#more-3559 Link: Why Nancy Kress has gone to the Dogs | Interviews | Futurismic. (...) PGR: How do...
Big Dumb Object (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Paul@Futurismic interviews Nancy Kress: Nancy Kress: What interests me is that this – unlike, say, FTL – is the future happening right now. Food crops are already being massively engineered (despite all the political problems with this); so are animals....
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
... Too Literary? Can you guess the title of James Wallace Harris' favorite short fiction story ? Nancy Kress has posted her reading list for Constructing Future Societies . John Scalzi on why you should care about Zoe's Tale . More Scalzi: Sports of the Future Will Be Much More Violent Than Those at the Olympics . One for the writers: Agent Colleen Lindsay offers the dissection of the...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
... Edelman Greg van Eekhout Fast Forward Matt Jarpe Kay Kenyon Ted Kosmatka Mary Robinette Kowal Nancy Kress Jay Lake John Picacio Pyr-o-mania Kristine Kathryn Rusch Robert J. Sawyer John Scalzi Patrick Weston Frank Wu I'm sure to have missed some, so don't be shy about pointing out others in the comments.
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Interviews and Profiles: @Enter the Octopus: Victor Gischler ( Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse ). @SciFi Wire: Nancy Kress ( Dogs ). @ Chicago Tribune : Cory Doctorow ( Little Brother ). @io9: Charles Stross ( Saturn's Children ). @Hub #61: William Gibson (Part 2). @Tor: Artist James Paick Chaosicon Blog profiles Richard Matheson . [via Enter the Octopus ] Free Fiction: @Tor.com: " The...
SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Award-winning SF author Nancy Kress told SCI FI Wire that her latest novel, Dogs, explores issues of American preparedness for bio-terrorism and the enormous variety of human responses to threats.
Torque Control (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
... still often great Yiddish Policemen’s Union in second place. Best Novella “The Fountain of Age” by Nancy Kress “Recovering Apollo 8″ by Kristine Kathryn Rusch “Stars Seen Through Stone” by Lucius Shepard “All Seated on the Ground” by Connie Willis “Memorare” by Gene Wolfe I confess I haven’t read any of these due to lack of time, and it seems unlikely that I will manage to do so before...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Free Fiction [via Free Speculative Fiction Online ]: " The Saturn Game " by Poul Anderson " Wings of Victory " by Poul Anderson " War Stories " by Elizabeth Bear " The Behold of the Eye " by Hal Duncan " Crawlspace " by Dave Freer & Eric Flint " Seeing Other People " by Nina Kiriki Hoffman " Murphy's War " by James P. Hogan " Laws of Survival " by Nancy Kress " Dog Soldier " by Garth...
14theditch (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
John DeNardo invited me to participate in an SF Signal Mindmeld feature on my favorite piece of Worldbuilding. Worldbuilding is not a term I have much regard for, but I gave it the old college try. There are also better answers from the likes of Nancy Kress , Joe Abecrombie , Karl Schroeder , Orson Scott Card , Mike Brotherton , Jeff VanderMeer , Lou Anders , Mike Resnick , L.E. Modesitt...
Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
... suddenly he moves to bite the hand that feeds him. Welcome to the world of , as created by author Nancy Kress, in which it’s not just little Heinrich going crazy, but also the Great Dane Jesus down the street and the Irish setter Ali — it’s a full-blown canine plague. Most of the dogs in the small Maryland town of Tyler have turned on their owners with little or no warning. (Even...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
... Science Fiction Interview with Ann Vremont The Bear in Fantasy Literature (Besides Elizabeth) It's Nancy Kress week ? The Literary Brothel is bring Literary back Review: I, Zombie by Al Ewing Ekaterina Sedia at "Omnivoracious" Publishers now adding "Chick-Lit" style covers to books by women whether it's appropriate or not Spate of Weird Books Announced More on literary tattoos (check...
dispatches from TJICistan (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazi… Nancy Kress is my all-time, all-time, favorite bestest ever science-fiction writer I’m not 100% convinced that a statement like that is enough to read one out of reasonable society. …but I’m 99% convinced.
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Gwyneth Jones' Top Ten SF by Women Writers . M. John Harrison's Top Ten Favorite Books . John Courtenay Grimwood's The Top Ten Cult SF Novels . The Golden Age of Geekdom . Nancy Kress on the "point" of fiction . Ellen Datlow shares her Readercon photos . Podcast fiction: " Goblin Lullaby " by Jim C. Hines. Contest: Win Jhegaala signed by Steven Brust . Some cool history and vintage art:...
