The Best of Gene Wolfe: A Definitive Retrospective of His Finest Short Fiction
Stomping on Yeti (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Over at a Dribble of Ink , Aidan is showing off , praising , promoting , acknowledging that the cover for the 2010 Swords & Dark Magic anthology has been released. I don't normally post covers Im not impressed with but this is an anthology I'm really looking forward to. To be fair, it's not a terrible cover but it's definitely not as strong as it could be. I think this is a case where the anthology...
Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Novels: LIGHTBREAKER HEARTLAND website: http://www.markteppo.com/ Q: Pitch The first novel of your series. A: LIGHTBREAKER is a Dan Brown thriller written by Aleister Crowley, wherein everyone who is after the mystical secret key of the universe actually knows how to use it. And they're willing to break things in order to get it. It's the first book in a longer series, the CODEX OF SOULS. Q: What are...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Recent events and discussions once again bring the topic of genre fiction's mainstream respectability to the forefront. So we thought it'd be timely to ask this week's panelists: Q: In your opinion, does literary science fiction and fantasy have mainstream respect? Why, if at all, does it need mainstream approval? What would such approval mean for genre fiction? Read on to see their level-setting...
Mad Hatter's Bookshelf & Book Review (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
According to Publisher's Marketplace Alex Bledsoe has signed with TOR for 2 more Eddie LaCrosse adventures following The Sword-Edged Blonde and Burn Me Deadly . The third book in the series is titled Dark Jenny , in which the sword jockey is suspected of murder in an island kingdom, and forced to find the real killer to save his own life for publication in 2011 with the fourth book in 2012. John Joseph...
Catalogue of Organisms. (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
"There is a cube of crystal here - though I can no longer tell you where -no larger than the ball of your thumb that contains more books than the library itself does. Though a harlot might dangle it from one ear for an ornament, there are not volumes enough in the world to counterweight the other." --Gene Wolfe, The Shadow of the Torturer . The ICZN is currently debating amendments to the...
Beer in Baltimore (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Found via Instapundit : Gene Wolfe, Jack O'Connell, and 09.09.09 Stone Vertical Epic Ale: The Perfect Pairing? If you're not the literary type, at least you have this description of Stone's Vertical Epic 09.09.09, which last I saw was on tap at Max's Taphouse: What's the beer like? Prior to our tasting, head brewer Mitch Steele described it thusly: "During the brewing process we added dark candi...
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
My BSC Review column is up: The Taboos of Editing . Not quite fantasy or science fiction, maybe horror. Not everything is in English. Pinoy Transgressive . And zen photo for the day from the immortal (how many times do we have to kill him? ) Jack Haringa : Interview Mur Laffery interviews Lou Anders and Pablo Defendini (podcast). Mur Lafferty interviews J.C. Hutchins . Mihai interviews Stephanie Pui-Mun...
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | 29/09/2009
Thanks to the kind folks at Voyager, I have five copies of Songs of the Dying Earth , a Jack Vance tribute anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, up for grabs. For more info about this title: Europe . Here's the blurb: Jack Vance was a seminal figure in the development of modern fantasy, so much so that it’s nearly impossible to imagine the genre as we know it today existing...
Notes from the Labyrinth (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
This is Banned Books Week . Banning books seems to me so self-evidently wrong that I don't actually have anything to say on the subject. Except, hey. Support intellectual freedom. Read a banned book. Last Drink Bird Head , a collection of flash fiction, the proceeds of which go to ProLiteracy , is available for pre-order . I'm in Last Drink Bird Head , along with a really astonishing plethora of cool...
14theditch (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
I've posted about this upcoming pub before -- an anthology of flash fiction, proceeds of which will go to benefit ProLiteracy http://www.proliteracy.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=191&srcid=-2 Derek and I both have work in this book. That's his Parrot Head drawing up there next to Eric Schaller's drawing that inspired the concept for the book. I'm posting now to let you know that you can pre-order...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
Jeff VanderMeer writes about a good cause: Folks who pre-order (with a $5 discount) Last Drink Bird Head , the flash-fiction anthology Jeff co-edited with his wife Ann, will see the proceeds go ProLiteracy , an organization that "champions the power of literacy to improve the lives of adults and their families, communities, and societies." Here's some more info about the book: What Is Last...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
Jeff VanderMeer sez, What Is Last Drink Bird Head? That's the catalyst editors Ann and Jeff VanderMeer provided to over 80 writers in creating this unique anthology, with all proceeds going to ProLiteracy.org. All each writer got was an email with "Last Drink Bird Head" in the subject line and the directions "Who or what is Last Drink Bird Head? Under 500 words." Like any surrealist...
Web News Site (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
Jeff VanderMeer sez, What Is Last Drink Bird Head? That's the catalyst editors Ann and Jeff VanderMeer provided to over 80 writers in creating this unique anthology, with all proceeds going to ProLiteracy.org. All each writer got was an email with "Last Drink Bird Head" in the subject line and the directions "Who or what is Last Drink Bird Head? Under 500 words." Like any surrealist...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
Jeff VanderMeer sez, What Is Last Drink Bird Head? That's the catalyst editors Ann and Jeff VanderMeer provided to over 80 writers in creating this unique anthology, with all proceeds going to ProLiteracy.org. All each writer got was an email with "Last Drink Bird Head" in the subject line and the directions "Who or what is Last Drink Bird Head? Under 500 words." Like any surrealist...
Neth Space (Free subscription) | 19/09/2009
September 19th is Talk Like a Pirate Day – and while my reaction in the past has generally been something like ‘how stupid’ or ‘that’s just silly’, I must say that I have changed on that account (even though I don’t really participate). You see, I think that silly, even post-modern ‘holidays’ like this can only make the world a better place. Anyway,...
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