This is the fifth time I’ve picked my favorite books of the preceding decade, and I cannot help but wonder how many more chances I will have to do so in the future? Twice more? Three times perhaps? Scary thoughts. Before I begin, here is a brief review of my selections from past decades: The 1960s: Best Novel : Lord of Light / Roger Zelazny Best Short Fiction : The Star Pit / Samuel R. Delany...
We've seen recently how some companies have turned copyright into something that certainly approximates a tool for extortion. Rather than threatening to break up your store with a baseball bat, they threaten to sue you if you don't pay them for infringing on their copyrights. Even in the cases where the copyright has been infringed, this whole process seems incredibly sleazy and underhanded -- and...
Curse of the Spider King is co-authored by Wayne Thomas Batson and Christopher Hopper, and it is book one in a series titled " The Berinfell Prophecies ." Judging a book by its cover is a natural and logical tool of every book buyer . Most avid readers will have bought books simply because of their cover art at least a few times in their life. Heck, that's how I found Ender's Game by Orson...
International orgs are no stranger to conspiratorial hues. A recent article by Mormon sci-fi writer Orson Scott Card had the blogosphere buzzing more than a new book release by Glen Beck–but the ‘future U.S. Civil War’ scenario has new legs in the form of Igor Panarin: Russian analyst and ex-KGB operative Igor Panarin wants the U.S. [...]
"The Author Hour" is a new internet radio show interviewing some of the biggest names in "speculative fiction, fantasy (urban, supernatural, paranormal, epic and adventure), science fiction (space opera, military and hard SF), romance, horror, young adult and children's fiction." The show is hosted by Matthew Peterson, author of Paraworld Zero, and runs on VoiceAmerica.com every...
One of the main groups spearheading the recent repeal of the state's same-sex marriage law in Maine is the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). You may recall the group from their hilariously ridiculous "Gathering Storm" ads . NOM dumped buckets of cash to overturn Maine's same-sex marriage law. An article which ran back on September 4, 2009 reports: According to state campaign finance...
As an editor, I've found point of view to be the number one problem I've encountered with authors. Then when I try to explain deep point of view their eye's glaze over. If you write romance, you need to learn how to write in deep point of view,and when to ease out. Learning the how and why of point of view will prove valuable. Here is an article I wrote on deep point of view a few years ago. I use...
As one of our first Majesco releases, check out Advent Rising - a true gem of a game that you just might have overlooked. Advent Rising is a third-person action-adventure game, set in a bright, distant future. The greatest feature of this title is its story, with the script written by the famed sci-fi writer Orson Scott Card. You take the role of Gideon Wyeth, a gifted pilot on the most important...
I thought I was done with Fading Light, but it wasn't done with me. My copy of "Federations" arrive yesterday, and I finally got a chance to start reading it. The first story "Mazer in Prison" by Orson Scott Card sang to me. The story was wonderful, and I went to reread it --analytically-- and decided I really liked the character's voice, the way he told his story without telling...
The most recent Mind Meld on SF Signal deals with what speculative fiction novels first published in the last 10 years should be included in high school literature courses. I had to read the Chrisalids and 1984 in class, but most of my speculative fiction reading was done after school. I read mostly fantasy but felt after a while that I should read some of the SF classics as well, and started with...
Yesterday, the Washington, DC City Council held another round of hearings on marriage equality in the District at which the National Organization for Marriage's Brian Brown testified. During his testimony and subsequent questioning , Brown consistently played the victim, complaining that "those of us who believe that there is something special and unique about husbands and wives are equivalent...
[Interviewer's Note: This is a series of interviews featuring the contributors of The Apex Book of World SF edited by Lavie Tidhar. It'll run every Monday to Friday until I run out of interviews. Two of these interviews will be reprinted in Apex Magazine but the rest are exclusive to SF Signal.] Aliette de Bodard lives in Paris, where she works as a Computer Engineer. In her spare time, she writes...
Edmund Schubert, the editor of Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, called me the day before I left for the World Fantasy Convention to offer me a position as assistant editor. After thinking about it for a day, I accepted. I’ll mainly be helping to read stories submitted to the magazine, choosing which to pass [...]
Wow. We had a ton of original features this week and it doesn't look like it will let up anytime soon. Let's take a look at what transpired on Big Download in the past seven days: Exclusive features Reviews : We give our final verdicts to Tropico 3 , Eufloria and Cities XL along with impressions of the Left 4 Dead 2 PC demo Orson Scott Card Interview : The best selling novelist talks about his love...
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