Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Every Tuesday, I'll have an interview posted. Roses Fox and Josh Jasper maintains the Publishers Weekly speculative fiction blog Genreville . Rose Fox: Hi! Thanks for agreeing to do the interview. First off, how did you get acquainted with speculative fiction? How did your parents help shape your reading habits? Harlan Ellison introduced my parents, both of whom are writers whose work includes a fair...
Monster Rally (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
The Ghost of Engineers' Castle... Halloween... The Most Disturbing Halloween EVER!: The Horrible Clanging of "Tubular Bells" @ PopDose Halloween Songs That Tickle Your Funny Bone (1974) @ Azathoth's Abode on the Plateau of Leng Horror Monsters #9 & Sounds To Make You Shiver @ Magic Carpet Burn Monster Rock 'N' Roll Show (1990) @ Universal Horror Sounds Vic Mizzy RIP @ Dartman's World...
Posthuman Blues (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
I found this while browsing Golden Age Comic Book Stories' collection of Andre Norton covers . For more, click here , here and here . [Follow me on Twitter .]
DISContent (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Courtesy of Ms. Andre Norton and Golden Age Comic Book Stories :
Babel Clash (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Hey, Matt, I was fascinated by Earthsea, too. Still am, in fact. The original trilogy, especially the first two books, still rank among my all-time favorite fantasy novels: I love Ged’s confrontation with the gebbeth, and the conjuring scene, and the conversation with the dragon, and the final resolution of the shadow’s mystery–these little books are [...]
io9 (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
"[In] the Golden Age... there was an emphasis on writing for young people, to essentially hook them and get them excited about the genre, so they would become lifelong science fiction readers. And in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Babel Clash (Free subscription) | 19/09/2009
KEN: Moving from junkie to dealer in the genre has been a hoot for me. Over the last few years, I’ve had the great gift of meeting and chatting with some of the influences that were instrumental in me moving from a reader and consumer of Story to a writer. For me, I got hooked on SF/F [...]
Semicolon (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Voting is now open at the Book Blogger Appreciation Week Awards. Bibliophile Stalker Charles Tan, The Bibliophile Stalker, is having computer issues; I can sympathize. He’s a promoter of Philippine speculative fiction, a niche that hadn’t occurred to me but sounds interesting. In addition to speculative fiction, he enjoys and reports on RPG’s, anime, and [...]
Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of... (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
Notes on a couple of space opera reads I've done lately: :: I greatly enjoyed Andre Norton's Moon of Three Rings a few months back, so more recently I read another by her, The Zero Stone . Where Moon of Three Rings was more planetary romance than space opera, The Zero Stone actually is full-on space opera. Murdoc Jern is a jeweler by trade, who has learned the ropes of the business from his father...
Sprittibee (Free subscription) | 01/09/2009
Today began our history co-op and I'm thrilled to see it unfold this year. We decided to blaze our own trail this year with a number of resources since it seemed that there were a few gaps in some of the resources. My friend and I wanted to cover history with a more Christ-Centered view : His-Story! I love to see the intricate weaving of God's providence in the tapestry of time. It strengthens the...
Feminist SF - The Blog! (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
These books aren’t new but they all feature girls travelling in time. In A Girl Called Boy by Belinda Hurmence, a girl on a road trip in the Appalachians with family and friends is extremely embarrassed when her parents refer to their ancestors who were slaves in that part of the world. Blanche Overtha [...]
Lorem Ipsum (Free subscription) | 08/08/2009
In recent years, there's been a great deal of discussion (and angst) about the graying of science fiction and the...
Dictionary Quotes (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
“There’s no night without stars.” Andre Norton quotes
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
Jeffrey A. Carver dishes on the back story behind his first Star Rigger novel, Seas of Ernathe Interviews: @The Dead Robots' Society: A. Lee Martinez . Like the fiction of Ruth Nestvold? Speak German? Have I got an interview for you! [via Ruth Nestvold ] Rick Klaw interviews Joe R. Lansdale . [via Bibliophile Stalker ] In SFWA News (Have you checked out their redesigned website ?): The 2009 SFWA business...
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
First off, congrats to the 2009 World Fantasy Award Nominees . Shout-outs to Jeffrey Ford, Daryl Gregory, Margo Lanagan, Peter S. Beagle, Richard Bowes, Kij Johnson, John Kessel, Catherynne M. Valente, John Joseph Adams, Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, Gavin J. Grant, Ekaterina Sedia, Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, Janet Chui, John Picacio, Shaun Tan, Jacon Weisman, John Klima, and Sean Wallace, Neil Clarke,...
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