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» Night Shade Books has an interview with Greg Egan and excerpts from Incandescence

» Village Voice: Elizabeth Hand reviews Deb Olin Unferth's Vacation

» Tor.com has new story Shade, by Steven Gould

» SFScope still has a few copies of Masters of Science Fiction DVD to give away

» John Alan Simon talks about adapting Philip K. Dick's Radio Free Albemuth into a film

» New York Times on Vernor Vinge and the Singularity

» LA Times reviews Damien Broderick's Year Million; earlier, Del Howison reviews Joe Lansdale's Leather Maiden

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FUTURE HISTORY
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» Locus wishes Ray Bradbury a happy 88th birthday today; and check out this vintage product endorsement by Bradbury [via SF Signal]

» SFWA will honor M.J. Engh as Author Emerita at the 2009 Nebula Awards Weekend in Los Angeles

» Anticipation, the 2009 World SF Convention in Montréal, will present a Special Category Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story (press release [doc])

» Tor.com: David D. Levine reports (at length) from Mike Brotherton's NASA-sponsored boot camp to teach astronomy to SF writers

» LA Times: Michael Chabon on 'writers who can dwell between worlds'

» Writer's Voice interviews John Kessel

» FANZINE has new fiction "Mankind Through the Ages" by Scott Bradfield

» The Dr. Howard Gluss Show interviews Robert J. Sawyer

» SciFiDimensions podcasts an interview Richard K. Morgan and reviews The Steel Remains

» Torque Control offers lists of top 20 fantasy novels and reviews Neal Stephenson's Anathem

» Apex Publications is holding its annual Halloween short fiction contest

» Publishers Weekly interviews Liz Williams

» Nebula Awards site: Charles Tan interviews Matt Hughes

» Neth Space interviews John Scalzi

» Fantasybookspot reviews Scalzi's Zoe's Tale

» John Picacio has a report with photos from Armadillocon 30

» L.A. Times: Anne Boles Levy reviews John Kessel's The Baum Plan for Financial Independence

» Jeff VanderMeer is blogging political fiction for Huffington Post

» Cheryl Morgan captures Denvention's 20 Essential Books of the Past 20 Years panel; Niall Harrison summarizes

» Scott Edelman has posted his photos from Denvention 3

» John Joseph Adams reports on Denvention's VIP tour of NORAD

» Adventures in SciFi Publishing features Clarion graduates

» Denvention reports and photos from Ellen Datlow, David Louis Edelman, Pyr, John Picacio (photos and report)

» NPR talks with Michael Chabon about the Hugo Awards

» The Masters of Science Fiction DVD, including two episodes not broadcast, is subject of a give-away contest at SF Scope

» Globe and Mail: Spider Robinson reviews Cory Doctorow

» Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Stephenie Meyer

» io9's Annalee Newitz reports on Worldcon sidetrip to NORAD, with Anders, Sawyer, Bacigalupi, Marusek, and others

» Bend, Oregon Bulletin: The Shire goes into foreclosure

» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Clarke & Pohl's The Last Theorem

» Kenneth R. Johnson has posted an Bibliography of SF Pornography

» August Internet Review of SF has features by Daniel M. Kimmel and Nick Mamatas and pieces about Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Silverberg, and C.M. Kornbluth

» August Clarkesworld Magazine features Yoon Ha Lee, Meghan McCarron, Theodora Goss, and Gene Wolfe

» Sci Fi Weekly: John Clute reviews Nick Harkaway's The Gone-Away World

» Guardian blogs about UK chances for Hugo Awards

» Truthdig's Steve Wasserman chats with Ray Bradbury (videos and transcript)

» Adventures in SciFi Publishing features Nalo Hopkinson and Geoff Ryman

» F&SF reprints Rand B. Lee's "Tales from the Net: Coming of Age Day" from Dec 2003

» John Joseph Adams is reading for new anthology Federations

» Dave Langford's Ansible 253

» Times Online: Lisa Tuttle reviews Stross, Baxter, Fenn

» LA Times: David L. Ulin reviews Harry Turtledove's The Valley-Westside War

» Transcriptase is available for writers offended by Helix editor William Sanders' remarks last month; this is what happened; Ansible 253 has a summary

» Adventures in SciFi Publishing has a Comic-Con report and reviews of new books by Tobias Buckell and T.A. Pratt

» Baltimore City Paper: Adrienne Martini reviews Charles Stross' Saturn's Children

» Kathryn Cramer has photos from Confluence, from Readercon, and from New York Review of Science Fiction's 20th anniversary party

» io9 recaps Readercon panel Why Aren't Aliens Talking to Us?

» August Lone Star Stories has fiction and poetry by Jo Walton, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Hal Duncan, Mikal Trimm, J.C. Runolfson, and Sonya Taaffe

» Black Gate has a free PDF download of Issue #12

» Adventures in SciFi Publishing features Neil Gaiman

» New pro-rate, online "literary adventure fantasy" magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies is open to submissions August 1st

» CNN on Arthur C. Clarke's last novel

» Boston Globe's Mark Feeney reviews Philip K. Dick's new Library of America volume Five Novels of the 1960s and 70s

» The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers' Scribe Awards, announced this past weekend at Comic-Con, include the Grandmaster Award to Alan Dean Foster

» Wizards of the Coast has cancelled its Discoveries imprint for original, non-gaming related novels

» Audible.com's free trial offer continues

» Scott Edelman has photos from Comic-Con

» Ellen Datlow has photos from the KGB's Shirley Jackson Award fundraiser

» L.A. Times interviews Michael Chabon about genre and serious fiction

» Washington Post interviews Benjamin Rosenbaum

» July Broadsheet has interviews with L. Timmel Duchamp and Catherynne M. Valente; plus Sheila Finch, Jennifer Pelland, reviews



philip jose farmer chabon the dark knight
Graham Sleight looks back on classics by Philip José Farmer
Hugo Awards Winners Gary Westfahl reviews Fly Me to the Moon (earlier: The Dark Knight)

Wednesday 27 August 2008

PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Michael Chabon: Streams in a River

Excerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview.

michael chabon I didn't have any hesitation about drawing on different traditions in trying to write The Yiddish Policemen's Union; on the contrary, that was one of the things that was exciting about doing it. When I realized it was going to be both a hardboiled detective novel and alternate history, that was part of the reason I wanted to write it!

PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Greer Gilman: Sun and Moon and Stars

Excerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview.

greer gilman My language is intense, I know -- I like to say I do everything Joyce did, only backward and in high heels. I write for the ear as much as for the eye... Plot is hard for me. I'm not a storyteller; I'm a world builder, a mythos builder.

Tuesday 26 August 2008

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

kenyon Sherrilyn Kenyon's Acheron and Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn still dominate lists; Neal Stephenson's Anathem ranks at Amazon with pre-publication sales; books by Terry Brooks and John Scalzi debut on this week's lists.

Sunday 24 August 2008

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: third week August

Notable new SF/F/H books seen the third week of August include Ken MacLeod's The Night Sessions, John Scalzi's Zoe's Tale, Richard Morgan's The Steel Remains, Judith Moffett's The Bird Shaman, and other titles by Boston, Carey, Duchamp & Gunn, Golemon, Hoyt, Richardson, Schubert & Card, and Thompson.

Saturday 23 August 2008

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Magazines: August

Postscripts publishes a special Worldcon SF issue; The New York Review of Science Fiction celebrates its 20th anniversary; The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction publishes its double-sized 59th anniversary issue. Plus: new issues of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Bulletin of the SFWA, Flashing Swords, Full Unit Hookup, Interzone, Murky Depths, Star*Line, and Weird Tales.

Thursday 21 August 2008

REVIEWS : Books : Yesterday's Tomorrows: Philip José Farmer

Graham Sleight's column from Locus Magazine looks at four classic titles by Philip José Farmer.

farmer Almost everything he's written makes clear what its sources are and what the writer thinks of them. So "The Lovers" can be seen as a vastly more adult take on the first contact stories that had been written in SF up to that point... In fact, the word that springs to mind — and I hope one can use it without the pejorative these days — is fan fiction.

NEWS : Awards : Endeavour Award Finalists


Finalists for the Endeavour Award, for works by Pacific Northwest writers, have been announced.

Tuesday 19 August 2008

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

kenyon Sherrilyn Kenyon's new "Dark-Hunter" novel Acheron debuts at #1 on lists at New York Times, Washington Post, and Publishers Weekly, while formerly self-published The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry, now published by Morrow, is among the top 10 fiction hardcovers on the same three lists.

Monday 18 August 2008

NEWS : Awards : Mythopoeic Awards Winners


J.K. Rowling and Catherynne M. Valente are among winners of this year's Mythopoeic Awards, for fiction and nonfiction fantasy literature.

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: second week August

Notable new SF/F/H books seen the second week of August include Karl Schroeder's Pirate Sun, Benjamin Rosenbaum's The Ant King and Other Stories, and other titles by Peter S. Beagle, Janet Chui & Jason Erik Lundberg, Raymond E. Feist & S.M. Stirling, Sean McMullen, Richelle Mead, Linnea Sinclair, and Timothy Zahn.

REVIEWS : Films :
For All Maggotkind, or, Swatted Dreams: A Review of Fly Me to the Moon

fly me to the moon An oddly bifurcated film, almost at war with itself: in part a brilliantly animated, awe-inspiring depiction of the entire flight of Apollo 11 from liftoff to descent -- juxtaposed with a rather ordinary kid's cartoon about adorable little flies and their amusing antics.

Friday 15 August 2008

NEWS : Awards : Hugo and Campbell Awards Winners Updated


A photo of the winners has been added.

Thursday 14 August 2008

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: first week August

Notable new SF/F/H books seen the first week of August include Arthur C. Clarke & Frederik Pohl's The Last Theorem, Joe Haldeman's Marsbound, Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn, Ekaterina Sedia's The Alchemy of Stone, the 1st US edition of Greg Bear's City at the End of Time, John Joseph Adams' anthology Seeds of Change, and other titles by Bentley, Bova, Caine, Cooper, and Kenyon.

PERSPECTIVES : Editorial Blog : New Skin

A Note on the in-progress Redesign...

Tuesday 12 August 2008

NEWS : Awards : Robert A. Heinlein Award winners

Winners of this year's Robert A. Heinlein Award, given to recognize outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings to inspire the human exploration of space, are Ben Bova and Spider Robinson. The award consists of a sterling silver medal, bearing the image of Robert A. Heinlein, and a certificate.
» Heinlein Award Past Winners

NEWS : Awards : Other Awards Presented at Worldcon

bull Isaac Asimov, Michael Chabon, David Brin, and others are winners of this year's First Fandom, Big Heart, Special Committee, Sidewise, and Golden Duck Awards, all announced at last week's World Science Fiction Convention in Denver.

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

meyer Stephenie Meyer's Breaking Dawn debuts at #1 on two print lists this week, after months of pre-publication sales. Also debuting on lists this week are Patricia Briggs' Cry Wolf, Karen Traviss' Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Jocelynn Drake's Nightwalker.

Saturday 9 August 2008

NEWS : Awards : Hugo and Campbell Awards Winners

bull Winners, announced at this year's World Science Fiction Convention in Denver, Colorado, include Michael Chabon, Connie Willis, Ted Chiang, Elizabeth Bear, John Scalzi, Locus Magazine, and others; Mary Robinette Kowal wins the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Update 11 August: the link to detailed results is corrected.

Wednesday 6 August 2008

NEWS : Awards : World Fantasy Awards Nominations

bull
Nominations for this year's World Fantasy Awards have been announced, along with recipients of this year's Lifetime Achievement Awards: Leo & Diane Dillon, and Patricia A. McKillip.

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

rowling Notable debuts on bestseller lists this week are J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard; James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge's The Dangerous Days of Daniel X; and David Weber's By Schism Rent Asunder.

Saturday 2 August 2008

NEWS : Awards : WSFA Small Press and Chesley Award nominees

Finalists have been announced for this year's Chesley Awards (for SF/fantasy art) and for this year's Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press Award (for short fiction from small press publications).
» The ASFA website lists the 2008 Chesley Award nominees (eligibility of all not yet confirmed)
» Science Fiction Awards Watch lists the WSFA Small Press Award finalists; winner will be announce at Capclave in October.

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: last week July

Notable new SF/F/H books seen the last week of July include Stephen Baxter's Flood, Greg Bear's City at the End of Time, Gregory Frost's Lord Tophet, Leslie What's collection Crazy Love, and the second edition of Michael Andre-Driussi's Lexicon Urthus, plus titles by Elizabeth Bear, Galen Beckett, Patricia Briggs, and others.

NEWS : Monitor Listing : Other Magazines, second half July

New issues of Analog, Asimov's, Black Gate, Electric Velocipede, F&SF, Dreams and Nightmares, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and BSFA journals Focus and Vector include fiction by Carolyn Ives Gilman, Stephen Baxter, Paolo Bacigalupi, and others; reviews and interviews by Elizabeth Hand, Robert Silverberg, and Damien Broderick; and tributes to Arthur C. Clarke.

NEWS : Locus Magazine: August Issue

august issue The August issue of Locus Magazine, mailed July 31st to subscribers, features interviews with Michael Chabon and Greer Gilman, results of this year's Locus Survey, an obituary and appreciations of Thomas M. Disch, and reviews of new books by Daniel Abraham, Charles Stross, Lucius Shepard, and others, plus Graham Sleight's "Yesterday's Tomorrows" about James Blish. • Table of Contents

NEWS : Bestsellers: Locus Magazine Bestsellers, August

charlaine harris Bestsellers, compiled by Locus Magazine from specialty bookstores, are led by Charlaine Harris' From Dead to Worse, Glen Cook's Cruel Zinc Melodies, C.E. Murphy's The Queen's Bastard, Troy Denning's Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Invincible, and James P. Davis' Forgotten Realms: The Shield of Weeping Ghosts.

REVIEWS : Books: Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, August

alastair reynolds August New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include Daniel Abraham's An Autumn War, Thomas M. Disch's The Word of God, Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-fifth Annual Collection, Greg Egan's Incandescence, Alastair Reynolds' House of Suns, and others.

Thursday 31 July 2008

PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Garth Nix: Balancing Act

Excerpts from Locus Magazine's July Issue interview.

garth nix People get too hung up on categories. Publishers, authors, and (to some extent) booksellers see Young Adult as a dynamic category: they want things to be in YA, whether they should go there or not...

PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Christopher Barzak: Imaginary Autobiography

Excerpts from Locus Magazine's July Issue interview.

christopher barzak A lot of writers write about families and communities that are falling apart. (Joyce Carol Oates writes a lot about characters like that.) When people ask me if One For Sorrow is autobiographical, which they often do, my answer is that I think any book is at least a little autobiographical...

Wednesday 30 July 2008

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New in Paperback: July

Notable titles in new paperback editions seen this month include Richard K. Morgan's Thirteen (aka Black Man, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award), and Daniel Abraham's A Betrayal in Winter, David Louis Edelman's Infoquake, plus titles by by Kage Baker, Brenda Cooper, George Alec Effinger, and others.

Tuesday 29 July 2008

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

colfer Eoin Colfer's latest Artemis Fowl YA novel debuts at #4 on this week's USA Today list; other debuts this week are books by Kelley Armstrong, Arthur C. Clarke & Frederik Pohl, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and Patricia Briggs. And Watchmen trailers before The Dark Knight are selling Watchmen and lots of Batman tie-ins.

Monday 28 July 2008

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: fourth week July

Notable new SF/F/H books seen the fourth week of July include Daniel Abraham's An Autumn War, the US edition of Greg Egan's Incandescence, story collections by Nisi Shawl and Robert Freeman Wexler, young adult novels by Kelley Armstrong, Eoin Colfer, Nancy A. Collins, Michael Grant, Mary Hoffman, and Garth Nix, and other titles by Henry Melton, Charlene Teglia, and S.L. Viehl.

Thursday 24 July 2008

REVIEWS : Books : Gary K. Wolfe reviews Margo Lanagan

Locus Magazine features three dozen book reviews in its July 2008 issue. Here's Gary K. Wolfe on Margo Lanagan's new novel Tender Morsels.

lanagan Lanagan's Tender Morsels is perhaps best approached without any YA preconceptions, for reasons that become apparent before we're halfway through the prologue, which begins literally with a roll in the hay...

REVIEWS : Books : Amelia Beamer reviews Kelly Link

And here's Amelia Beamer on Kelly Link's new collection Pretty Monsters.

kelly link Link freely uses the cast and furniture of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, but for the most part, the narrative worlds in Link's stories do not follow the rules of any of these genres. Her characters aren't afraid of (or astonished by) zombies and ghosts and wizards. Strangely enough, the emotional payoff from all of this wackiness is something akin to what science fiction readers call sense of wonder.






— Current Issue: August 2008

Interviews with Michael Chabon and Greer Gilman

Locus Survey results

Obituary and appreciations of Thomas M. Disch

Table of Contents
August cover

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-- Previous Issue: July 2008 --

Locus Poll results

Special section on Young Adult Fiction

Interviews with Garth Nix and Christopher Barzak

Table of Contents
July cover




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Tributes to
Arthur C. Clarke

Theodora Goss and Catherynne M. Valente Interviewed

ICFA Report

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