Jeff Vandermeer’s Ecstatic Days has a link to this essay by Stephen King on the American short story and his perception that it is largely being read by writers and contributors. Perhaps the short story is not as visible as it once was but the plethora of anthologies and reviews suggest that the audience is […]
Farah has a review of the new Stephen Baxter children’s sf novel, the H-Bomb Girl, over on her blog which she largely really likes. Though my own interest in children’s fantasy, I think I’ll give it a go.
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Sometimes the whole Wordpress blogging tracking type beast throws up some fun things and the link from Jeff Prucher’s blog (he of Brave New Words fame) mentioned this piece on Michael Swanwick’s blog on movements in genre. As Swanwick mentions, the best thing that comes out of these thoughts is a set of people trying […]
Those sorted folk over at HisDarkMaterials.org have linked to a Yahoo movie about the making of the daemons in the forthcoming film. They do look interesting and well done but I reserve judgement until seeing the entire film. The Guardian notes from the Bookseller suggests that we will be getting another episode from the world, […]
Tachyon are publishing Jeff and Ann Vandermeer’s anthology on the New Weird in February 2008. SF Scope’s publication details don’t fill me with much hope. The interviews and authors who I’ve spoken with have all mentioned literary ancestor’s such as William Hope Hodgson, HP Lovecraft and other Weird authors but these seem to be missing […]
The Sunburst award winner has been announced - Mark Frutkin’s Fabrizio’s Return. Its a new one on me but I’m tempted to go out and buy it to give a go. Next year, they add a young adults category to it as well which will be interesting to see what happens.
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GRR Martin, Gardner Dozois and Daniel Abraham have written the fantastic Hunter’s Run, developed from an original novella. Daniel Abraham, whose UK debut The Long Price (Book one: Shadow and Betrayal) is out next month kindly answered some questions on the novel and his involvement.
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Cory Doctorow has a strange little tale in this month’s Radar magazine in which Google teams up with the Department of Homeland Security. The ending is a little anti-climactic but the ideas are worth mulling around.
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The Heinlein Archives have gone online now. From the website:
“The Heinlein Archives presents digital copies of the entire collections of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein in downloadable form for research and academic purposes. Heinlein’s OPUS manuscripts is the first complete collection presented. These manuscript files include Heinlein’s files of all his published works with his […]
The Times has a collection of authors reading their favourite ghost stories. Susan Hill reads from Woman in Black (an absolutely classic story if you haven’t read it), Debbie Moggach reading from Gormenghast, Sophie Gee from Dracula and AL Kennedy from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. They are running a competition with Vintage to write […]