Monthly Archives: December 2007

Article on Indian sf

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 … Continue reading

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Warren Ellis’ Whitechapel online

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 … Continue reading

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Steve Erickson’s Zeroville in the NY Times

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 … Continue reading

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Sarah Hall appreciates Z for Zachariah

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 … Continue reading

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Joseph Conrad is 150 years old

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 … Continue reading

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