SF Signal (Free subscription) | yesterday
... doesn't quite reach the heights of other Celestial Empire stories. I've been thoroughly enjoying Chris Roberson's Celestial Empire stories . The setting is several centuries in the future of an alternate history where Imperial China and the Mexic Dominion fight to be a superpower in space. The latest story in this universe, Iron Jaw and Hummingbird , is set on Mars, after it has been...
Book Fetish (Free subscription) | 21/10/2008
Iron Jaw finds herself tossed out into the alleys after living a well-to-do life of intensive study and training. Iron Jaw finds herself befriended by an older con artist, who creates new cons to cheat the public and earn them...
Notes From Coode Street (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
Over at Tor.com John Klima has raised some discussion of World Fantasy Convention. He refers to the estimable Chris Roberson’s comment that “World Fantasy is the hub around which my year turns.” John talks about developing projects, making contacts and so on, and there’s no doubt that’s part of the event (and I’ve certainly done [...]
Comic Book Conventions.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Bill Willingham, Matt Sturges, and Chris Roberson sign at Austin Books & Comics on November 15th. Read more...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... SF ] @Apex Magazine: " Shaded Streams Run Clearest " by Geoffrey W. Cole. " Ill Met in Elvera " by Chris Roberson, which features the first meeting of Hieronymus Bonaventure and Balam, and serves to bridge the gap between the end of Set the Seas on Fire and the duo's entrance in the pages of Paragaea: A Planetary Romance . The latest issue of Dark Fire features fiction from Michelle...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 14/11/2008
... " Save Tomorrow With A Smiley " by James Bloomer. Audio fiction: " The Trouble with Superman " by Chris Roberson, via Matthew Bey and Steve Wilson of Space Squid fame. "When is a mainstream publisher also an anti-authoritarian propagandist? When it publishes science fiction," says Katherine Mangu-Ward in her profile of sf publisher Tor and their Libertarian titles . Over at Tor, Jane...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
In the spirit of The World's First Wearable Motorcycle ... When I watch this, I can't help singing "Rollerman, Rollerman, does whatever a roller can...". My wife, on the other hand, hearing this music from the next room, thinks I'm watching strippers. [link via Chris Roberson ]
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
Interviews & Profiles: @SciFi Wire: Chris Roberson ( Iron Jaw and Hummingbird ). Suvudu podcast-interviews Mur Laffterty ( Playing for Keeps ). Locus Online posts interview excerpts from Locus magazine with Ursula K. Le Guin ( Lavinia ). @The BookSpot: Jeff VanderMeer ( Predator: South China Sea ). @Mike Brotherton's blog: Tobias S. Buckell ( Sly Mongoose ). @Dragon Page Cover to Cover:...
SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
SF author Chris Roberson told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, Iron Jaw and Hummingbird, is a Chinese opera set on a terraformed Mars.
Subterranean Press (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
The Fall 2008 issue of Subterranean Online is well under way, with the serialized “Celestial Empire” novelette by Chris Roberson now complete, and a brand new review (of Kealan Patrick Burke’s excellent new novel, Master of the Moors) just posted. Head over and have a look.
