Cory Doctorow over at BoingBoing has a link to India’s Telhaka magazine which has a great article on Indian sf and its history. It points out the similarities and differences between Western and Indian sf. Most of this though seems to be inaccessible unless you happen to speak one of the many languages and dialects [...]
Warren Ellis’s Freakangels created a community site, Whitechapel, which is well worth a delve around if you have the time and like Ellis. As you’d expect, it is becoming a luscious engine for finding yet more stuff to while away the hours research on the ‘Net.
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The New York Times has just run a review of the new Steve Erickson, Zeroville (Amazon), and has also posted the first chapter online. To be fair, I’ve always found him an acquired taste but I have to admire the way he puts books together.
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Sarah Hall, whose The Carhullan Army (Amazon) won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize last week, has written this apprecation of Z for Zachariah (Amazon), a post-apocalyptic children’s sf novel, which has inspired her and, perhaps, her final paragraph contains the highest praise a book can get from a reader:
“Twenty years ago, Ann’s plight left [...]
Joseph Conrad, author of Heart of Darkness, has his 150th anniversary today. Although perhaps better known as the film Apocalypse Now, Heart of Darkness is a seminal novel which gave rise to the definition of Clute’s term: cloaca. Its a book that is very much of its time but its exploration in the heart of [...]