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2007 Nebula Award Final Ballot
Brook West, Nebula Award Report editor, announces the final Ballot for the Nebula Awards® for 2007. The ballot will be mailed on March 1st, and Active Members of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America must return them by March 31. The Awards will be announced at the Nebula Awards® Banquet to be held at…
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Free Download of Old Man’s War
Tor Books is getting ready to launch an “SF super-site,” and is making John Scalzi’s “I’m going to Out-Heinlein Heinlein” novel available for download as a free e-book. There will be other free books available as well; to get the Scalzi book and be notified when others are available, you have to sign up for…
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Scalzi-mania
On eBay: Item number:120222826271 John Scalzi: Zoe’s Tale — Special edition for charity! Ending Feb-25-08 09:10:29 PST Wish I was rich :-/
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Happy Mutant Spawn
Cory Doctorow welcomed Poesy Emmeline Fibonacci Nautilus Taylor Doctorow yesterday morning. I like the baby photo on Wonderland better than the one on BoingBoing. (Also…Fibonacci?)
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Um…No.
Discover Magazine has a list entitled “20 Things You Didn’t Know About Science Fiction.” I believe a more accurate title would be, “20 Things You Didn’t Know About Science Fiction if You Weren’t a Fan and Maybe Didn’t Care About Even if You Were,” but perhaps that was too long. Not only is it the…
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More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Retconning
A retcon is retroactive continuity, the deliberate changing of previously established facts in a work of serial fiction. (Like Bobby Ewing showing up in the shower after being “dead” for a whole season, or Sherlock Holmes surviving the waterfall.) It’s popular in comic books, much to the dismay of long-time fans. Websnark has posted a…
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Coraline Movie Footage
Neil Gaiman’s Hugo-award winning novella Coraline (beware, spoilers) is currently being made into an animated movie due out next January. Gaiman recently released some not-quite-final footage of the film. It looks suitably atmospheric. Weird voice credits, though: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, and that guy who plays PC in the Apple commercials. (via Neatorama)
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Is Heinlein Becoming Irrelevant?
Despite his influence on other SF writers, the Heinlein fanbase is greying. This article makes an interesting argument about RAH’s political and social views being so out of step with today’s views that he’s turning off younger readers. “When an emerging science-fiction writer’s work earns him comparisons to Robert A. Heinlein,” Dave Itzkoff begins a…
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2007 Preliminary Nebula Ballot
NOVELS – 13 Vellum: The Book of All Hours – Duncan, Hal Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Rowling, J. K. Odyssey – McDevitt, Jack Mainspring – Lake, Jay The Accidental Time Machine – Haldeman, Joe Species Imperative #3: Regeneration – Czerneda, Julie E. The Yiddish Policemen’s Union – Chabon, Michael The New Moon’s…
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Robinson on “Comparative Planetology”
Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest trilogy, Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, and Sixty Days and Counting, are all about climate change radically altering the Earth. The architecture blog BLDG BLOG has an interview with him which discusses his rather literal world-building: One thing about Mars is that it’s a radically impoverished landscape. You start…