Electric Velocipede Blog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
(photo of John Kessel's Nebula Awards copyright John Kessel ) For those of you who can nominate for the Nebulas, here is what is eligible from Electric Velocipede (that being stuff published from July 1, 2008 to December 31, 2009 ): Issue 15/16 Fiction Novelettes Corey Brown - Child of Scorn Claude Lalumière - Destroyer of Worlds Darren Speegle - Strains of the Lost...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... more apt than reviewing The Secret History of Science Fiction edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel. At first glance, the selection of authors seem contrary: T.C. Boyle and Margaret Atwood for example are authors whom we associate with the "we don't write science fiction" crowd. And then there's the science fiction writers who've been accepted by the mainstream (and...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Interviews /Profiles Confessions of an Aca/Fan interviews Delia Sherman ( Interfictions 2 ). Big Hollywood profiles Harlan Ellison . ActuSF interviews Kevin J. Anderson . Marshall Payne interviews John Kessel . Pat's Fantasy Hotlist interviews Mark Charan Newton . Robert Freeman Wexler interviews Alan DeNiro and Daryl Gregory . John Scalzi profiles Jeff Carlson . SCI FI Wire talks...
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Lots of work to do, not enough time... From Chris Barza k, he points out this article on Does an Anti-Gay Character Make (Gay Author) Bennett Madison's Teen Book Homophobic? Interviews Confessions of an Aca/Fan interviews Delia Sherman . Big Hollywood profiles Harlan Ellison . ActuSF interviews Kevin J. Anderson . Marshall Payne interviews John Kessel . Pat's Fantasy Hotlist interviews...
newsletter archive (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
This email was sent to: 4bloggermail@gmail.com Click here to update your email information Click here to UNSUBSCRIBE . Click here to forward this newsletter to a friend! Volume 7, Number 19 Nov. 19, 2009 www.usavolleyball.org GROWING THE GAME - TRYOUTS AND OUR DEEPEST FEAR John Kessel penned a blog regarding "Tryouts and our Deepest Fears" with his insights into the volleyball...
Earth and other unlikely worlds (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... sf and the rest of literature and the mutual enrichment of both. Editors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel have an argument with that idea in their anthology The Secret History of Science Fiction , selecting stories by authors on both sides of the divide to illustrate their thesis that the so-called boundary between sf and ‘mainstream’ literature has long been blurred...
Torque Control (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
I’m still in Cologne at the moment, but have some links to keep you amused. One: Paul Witcover’s Locus review of The Secret History of Science Fiction: Kelly and Kessel have selected stories from inside and outside the genre to demonstrate that, in fact, despite the continued reliance of publishers on such marketing labels as science [...]
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io9 (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Tachyon Publications has a new anthology out called . It centers around a subject that has sparked countless debates and rants among Science Fiction fans. And no, it's not River Tam vs. James T. Kirk.Editors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel have collected these nineteen stories to explore the supposed divide between mainstream literature and speculative fiction. They've written an...
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
... to some extent. What's impressive with the introduction by editors James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel is that it has a narrative to it. It starts with a reaction to an essay by Jonathan Lethem which posits what if Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow had won the Nebula Award, instead of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama . Would this have indeed reconciled two opposing genres...
