Terry Brooks has just published Elves of Cintra, the latest in the Genesis of Shannara books. I caught up with him at Fantasycon and he was kind enough to answer a few questions.
With the new series you are binding together the Word and the Void and the Shannara series. How’s that working out for you [...]
Jeff Vandermeer’s blog has this link to an interview with him on Dark Roasted Blend. Amongst the great art which features on Vandermeer’s covers is some good, thought provoking text which centres on the notion of individual taste in genre, something which we either take for granted or ignore. Well worth a read.
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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.
What made you join up with Gardner Dozois and GRR Martin [...]
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 [...]
Christopher Barzak’s debut novel, One for Sorrow, has just been published in the States and he was kind enough to answer a couple of questions regarding his writing.
In “What we know about the lost families of — House” in Interfictions, you mention it came from coming back to your home town after travelling. Did the [...]
John Clute’s Darkening Garden is one of the finalists of the Locus Non-Fiction book awards and has been nominated by the International Horror Guild for the best Non-fiction book award. As ever, he has created a thoughtful and thought provoking book.
What made you come up with Darkening Garden? Is this a prelude to a larger [...]
PBS journalist, Charlie Rose, has created a fantastic archive of interviews with cartoonists over the years, including Charles Schulz. (via Forbidden Planet and BoingBoing). Well worth a visit.
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Space Westerns has this interview with David Hartwell (from the parishes of Tor/Forge, New York Review of SF) talking about how he got into them and his current and forthcoming projects.
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Adam Roberts’s first novel was Salt which was shortlisted for the Clarke award. He has published several novels, parodies and studies of sf since then as well as having a job as a Professor of English.
Given your day job, what interests you in writing sf or parodies of recent films?
I write the parodies because they’re [...]
Chris Roberson’s excellent novel, Set the Seas on Fire, is to be published shortly by Solaris. I’ve just reviewed it for Interzone and really cannot recommend it highly enough. His novella, Voyage of Night Shining White was reviewed a little while ago.
In The Voyage of Night Shining White, I got the sense that you focus [...]