Lizza Aiken recently edited The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories for Big Mouth House, the children’s imprint of Small Beer, written by Joan Aiken. Going to see Lizza Aiken was a little like settling into one her mother’s novels. I’d arrived early and set about wandering around the neighbourhood, mainly to calm my [...]
Cory Doctorow over on Boing Boing has a link to part of Rudy Rucker’s memoirs where he is reminiscing about the early cyberpunks and, it appears, a somewhat eventful panel where he was the only member who didn’t walk out.
I’ve got to say that I haven’t read any Rucker in a long time but I [...]
Civil service tea breaks do appear to be good for one thing: scanning New Scientist for occasional good articles. This week there’s a cracking special on SF with William Gibson, Margaret Atwood, Kim Stanley Robinson and Stephen Baxter with reviews and round ups.
I’ve just come across this intriguing article on John Green’s blog about YA feuds which starts out tongue in cheek. Simon Pegg wrote an article on the Zombies in the Guardian which has been co-opted into the arguments about zombies versus unicorns. Justine Larbalestier defends zombies far better than I ever will and Diana Peterfreund [...]
The Observer books section ran an interview with Felicity Dahl, Roald Dahl’s widow, about the inaugural Roald Dahl Funny Prize which is to be announced in Thursday. I can’t believe that it is only 18 years since he died as his books were a central part of my childhood reading. It’ll be interesting to see [...]
Roger Sutton’s blog, Read Roger, has a link to part of an interview with Sarah Palin about her reading habits. In one of the quotes she says, “If I’m going to read something, for the most part, it’s something beneficial.” His retorts “I am reflexively suspicious of someone who only reads “improving” books and claims [...]
Bookslut’s Bookslut in training has a review article which covers Kelly Link’s Pretty Monsters and Gaiman’s Graveyard book and also Cherie Priest.
Terrence Rafferty in the New York Times has an article on the forthcoming film of Twilight (Twilight movie site with trailer). As he ends:
“What that means, maybe, is that the world of “Twilight” is one where incoming calls from the real world can rarely be heard with any clarity in a fantasy universe of perpetual [...]
Margo Lanagan’s Red Spikes is a fantastic book on so many levels with its use of language and also revisiting and reshaping our expectations of the fantastic. At some many levels, this collection reminded me of Alan Garner and his use of language in evoking the landscape in its full richness. Instead of necessarily evoking [...]
Comixnews has an overview article on Neil Gaiman talking about Coraline and the Death movie which originally ran in Premiere. I’m really looking forward to Coraline coming out as it is one of my favourite books.
(Links via SF Signal.)