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SF Signal (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
addBookLink("0316022101"); Rescued By Nerds interviewed Jeff Somers , author of The Digital Plague . Newsarama interviews Jonathan Lethem , creator of the comic Omega Man (which I blogged about at SciFi Scanner ). [via Daily P.O.P. ] At SciFi Wire, John Joseph Adams profiles Karen Joy Fowler , author of Nebula-winning " Always " The latest Adventures in Scifi Publishing podcast features Lois McMaster...
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StarShipSofa Podcast: science ficti (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Main Fiction Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson Winner of: • 1991 Hugo Award for Best Short Story • 1990 Nebula Award for Best Short Story • 1991 Asimov's Reader's Award • 1991 The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award • 1991 Locus Award • 1991 SF Chronicle Award I was driving with my brother, the preacher, and my nephew, the preacher's son, on I-65 just north of Bowling Green when we got a flat. It was...
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Away With Words (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Steampunk: A subculture that blends elements of Victorian-era design and technology with elements of science fiction and fantasy; Jules Verne and William Gibson. The movement was born sometime in the late 1980s and named by science fiction author K.W Jeter in imitation of cyberpunk. About a decade later, Paul Di...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
So, I emailed Paul Di Filippo this morning, any "what hath I wrought?" feelings after reading this morning's NY Times feature on steampunk ? The Times credits the science fiction author with naming the subculture, which has spread from literature to fashion, via a collection of novellas published in 1995, which you should totally track down and read. "Now I have to watch for assassins...
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
The New York Times fashion and style section has a nice piece today on the aesthetic influence of steampunk on fashion and art: Devotees of the culture read Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, as well as more recent speculative fiction by William Gibson, James P. Blaylock and Paul Di Filippo, the author of “The Steampunk Trilogy,” the historical science fiction novellas that lent the culture...
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SF Signal (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
Spinning a thread from his Why YA? post, John Scalzi asks Who Lost Scott Westerfeld? to address Paul Di Filippo's comment about an author's young adult book replacing the adult title he could have written in its place. Sez Scalzi: "The reason we might not see another Evolution's Darling from Scott has almost nothing to do with the fact he's successfully writing YA, and quite a lot to...
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SF Signal (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
... majority of stories in the anthology are good or better. The outstanding entries were "iCity" by Paul Di Filippo and "Sunworld" by Eric Brown. Both of these stories capture the joys that come with anthologies and ultimately help make The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 2 an enjoyable anthology. Reviewlettes follow... Like all good science fiction should, Paul Di...
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When Gravity Fails (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
From the boys at SF Signal , a story-by-story analysis. The vast majority of stories in the anthology are good or better. The outstanding entries were "iCity" by Paul Di Filippo and "Sunworld" by Eric Brown. Both of these stories capture the joys that come with anthologies and ultimately help make The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 2 an enjoyable anthology.
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Notes From Coode Street (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
There’s a lot of talking about space opera going on out there. First, the redoubtable Paul Di Filippo takes a look at Gary Wolfe’s Space Vulture for Barnes and Noble. Then, John Clute peers into Peter F. Hamilton’s The Dreaming Void over at SciFi.com. And then, finally, Gwyneth Jones (one of my favorite critics) takes [...]
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enthusiasm (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
Testing a bulletproof vest, September 1923 I expect we can think of all sorts of ways this quality control procedure might be improved. (original image via Shorpy) (possibly) related:lolcat contributionMaputo demolitiongarfield minus garfieldlinks for 2008-02-05: Paul Di Filippohenna
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David Louis Edelman's Blog (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
... galactic scale which only serves to show what very small worlds we inhabit. You can always rely on Paul Di Filippo to come up with something offbeat in his stories full of charm, quirks and quite breathtaking cleverness. “iCity” is no exception, telling of competitive urban planners vying to win the popular vote and reform entire city districts at the press of a button: in only an...
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enthusiasm (Free subscription) | 03/23/2008
... ) had served some time as superintendent of publications for the excellently-named Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge , whose aims, according to Wikipedia, were to release inexpensive publications “intended for the working class and the middle class, as an antidote to the more radical output of the pauper presses.” Wikipedia also notes, in relation to popular culture references: References...
