Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Paper Golem’s ALEMBICAL celebrates the novella - I love novellas. They’re the perfect length for single-sitting reading, and I think that there’s something about the form that encourages experimentation. Longer than a short story, … Go here to see the original: Paper Golem’s ALEMBICAL celebrates the novella - Jay Lake, SF Books
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 28/12/2008
... Overall, this was a fantastic anthology that delivered on its goals. Editors Nick Mamatas and Jay Lake are to be applauded because it's seldom that one comes across an anthology wherein all the stories are accessible and striking. If you love the pulps, Spicy Slipstream Stories is a must-have.
Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 25/12/2008
Review - Jay Lake, Escapement [ Powell's | Amazon — Money shot: Initially the idea was so implausible I found it hard to engage. That, and the writer appeared to be making up lots of words to describe things, which is a death-knell for scifi and fantasy
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 20/12/2008
... generalization, it also misses the fact that science fiction itself is not a genre." [via Jay Lake ] David Gerrold's long-suppressed gay Star Trek episode finally sees the light of day today. [via io9 ] Jeff Somers shares a random musing about Battlestar Galactica and romance in sci-fi. [via Orbit ] Happy Birthday to Best Science Fiction Stories ! Ellen Datlow is looking for a "strong, catchy,...
frankwu (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
The Exquisite Corpuscle got a shout-out in boing boing (Thanks, Cory)! I was surprised, though, to see the text translated into... something : <
The Current Buzz - Tech (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Frank Wu sez, “Jay Lake and I have edited an anthology called “The Exquisite Corpuscle.” It’s not just a random assortment of stories - it’s a literary version of the game “Telephone.” An experiment in creative groupthink. I started out doing a painting, which I handed off to Gary Shockley (who’s had a number of stories in “The Magazine [...]
Click World News (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Frank Wu sez, "Jay Lake and I have edited an anthology called "The Exquisite Corpuscle." It's not just a random assortment of stories - it's a literary version of the game "Telephone." An experiment in creative groupthink. I started out doing a painting, which I handed off to Gary Shockley (who's had a number of stories in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"). Gary wrote a story inspired...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
Frank Wu sez, "Jay Lake and I have edited an anthology called "The Exquisite Corpuscle." It's not just a random assortment of stories - it's a literary version of the game "Telephone." An experiment in creative groupthink. I started out doing a painting, which I handed off to Gary Shockley (who's had a number of stories in "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"). Gary wrote a story inspired...
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Woohoo, I got Jay Lake'd . Here's an advanced review of the upcoming Philippine Genre Stories: Horror issue. (The issue is delayed and will plug it when it's out.) On a side note, my story got praised: "If there is one story though that should justify people’s purchase of the magazine, it should be Charles Tan’s “The Jar Collector.”" There's a lot of controversies that surround the SF community...
Night Shade Books (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
... An Empire Unacquainted with Defeat (hc, ltd), Graham Joyce’s How to Make Friends with Demons (hc), Jay Lake’s Madness of Flowers (tp), and Stephen Erikson’s The Lees of Laughter’s End (hc, ltd). Stephen Baxter’s The H-Bomb Girl (hc) and Matthew Hughes’s Hespira (hc, ltd), will be published in February 2009. William Hope Hodgson’s Collected Fiction Volume 5: The Dream of X and Other Stories...
girlie jones (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Two awesome reviews from The Fix in one week! Here they review Dirk Flinthart's novella Angel Rising . New Ceres is a shared-world universe developed by Gillian Polack and Alisa Krasnostein, and later expanded by authors Cat Sparks, Dirk Flinthart, Jay Lake, and several others. It is a place where steampunk meets space opera and cyberpunk, a colony whose leaders are dedicated to preserve the...
Torque Control (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
... Horizons, July 14-21) Karen Heuler, “The Difficulties of Evolution” (Weird Tales, July/August) Jay Lake, “ A Water Matter ” (Tor.com) Liz Williams, “Spiderhorse” (Realms of Fantasy, August) Alex Jeffers, “Firooz and His Brother” (F&SF, May) Ann Leckie, “ The God of Au ” (Helix #8, Spring) James Maxey, “ Silent as Dust ” (Intergalactic Medicine Show #7, January) Erik Amundsen, “Blue Vervain...
StarShipSofa Podcast: science ficti (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Aural Delights No 53 Ted Kosmatka Editorial: Tony C Smith 00:10 Poetry : An Eccentric In Orbit by Laurel Winter 06:00 Flash Fiction : Conspiracy Of Dentists by Jay Lake 07:30 Fact: Movie Talk by Rod Barnett 16:30 The Sofanauts Awards: by Mark Bormann 24:15 Main Fiction : Deadnauts by Ted Kosmatka 28:00 Narrators : Kate Baker , Diane Severson , Paul Caggie THE SOFANAUTS: Click to vote!
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
... "The Difficulties of Evolution" by Karen Heuler ( Weird Tales , July/August) "A Water Matter" by Jay Lake (Tor.com) "Spiderhorse" by Liz Williams ( Realms of Fantasy , August) "Firooz and His Brother" by Alex Jeffers ( F&SF , May) "The God of Au" by Ann Leckie ( Helix #8 , Spring) "Silent as Dust" by James Maxey ( Intergalactic Medicine Show #7 , January) "Blue Vervain Murder Ballad #2:...
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
December 30 – January 1, 2009,Vancouver, WAAnthropomorphic conventionJanuary 6-8, 2009Perth, AustraliaScience fiction and gaming conventionJanuary 9-10, 2009Memphis, TNSCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) and science fiction conventionJanuary 9-11, 2009 Seattle, WAScience fiction conventionGuests of Honor: Jay Lake and James Stanley DaughertyJanuary 16-18, 2009 Science fiction conventionWilliamsburg,...
