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New SF Novelist Blog
SF Novelists is the group blog of several SF and Fantasy novelists–there are currently 65 of them listed–whose goal is “to share our love of genre and spread the word via this website and other venues.” The site also aggregates posts from many of the authors’ personal blogs, turning it into a sort of author…
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Why Doesn’t Everyone Like SF?
The Website at the End of the Universe has an interesting post about why SF isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, including links to several articles about the subject and a bonus link to a non-fan’s blog. I particularly like the non-fan’s post, which can be summed up as, “I don’t like SF ‘cuz I’m dumb.”…
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Tim Powers Interview
SF Revue has a fairly lengthy interview with Tim Powers, whom I’ve discussed previously, and who was kind enough to join us in chat a few years ago. SFRevu: We won’t try to classify exactly which genre your writing falls under, but do you find this actually helps you rather than hinders you? In other…
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Pern Novels Optioned
Apparently riding the wave of recent big-budget fantasy movies, Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern novels have been optioned by the Canadian film production company Copperheart Entertainment. I’m questioning this a little: “I decided that Pern had to be done right and I wouldn’t let it go to someone unless I was certain that they were…
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Send Clarke Birthday Greetings
Arthur C. Clarke turns 90 on December 16, and the Sri Lanka Astronomical Association is collecting birthday wishes from his friends and fans. And as a big fan of his writing and admirer of his work, I have put up a blog where everyone could send him wishes for his 90th birthday. If you are…
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Pratchett Has Alzheimer’s
Well, this just sucks. Terry Pratchett has addressed an open letter to his fans with the news that he has a rare form of early-onset Alzheimer’s. Folks, I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed,…
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More Free Fiction
Free Speculative Fiction Online has a whole heap of new additions from James Blish, Algis Budrys, Greg Egan, Eric Flint & Dave Freer, Jeffrey Ford, Theodora Goss, Harry Harrison, Jay Lake, Claude Lalumière, Jack McDevitt, Alan E. Nourse, Mike Resnick, John Ringo & Linda Evans, Chris Roberson, Bruce Sterling, Lavie Tidhar and Stanley G. Weinbaum.…
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Guide to Reading Discworld
There are currently 33 novels in Pratchett’s Discworld behemoth, all of them interrelated. Krzysztof “I Have Too Much Time on My Hands” Kietzman of Lspace.org maintains a graphical guide to all of the novels, in multiple languages. All the main lines of the Discworld books are laid out in sequence, with dotted lines showing how…
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Interview with William Gibson
The 40th Anniversary issue of Rolling Stone magazine has an interview with William Gibson, including some musings on the future of computing. When you coined the word “cyberspace,” did you envision that the term might be your lasting legacy? Not at all. I thought the book would be despised to the extent that it wasn’t…
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“Best Book” Lists of 2007
Hey! You guys! There’s almost two months left in 2007. Shouldn’t you be waiting to publish these lists? No? Huh. This is the same mindset that starts hawking Christmas merchandise in August. Anyway, lists: Publisher’s Weekly: Inferno edited by Ellen Datlow Acacia by David Anthony Durham Ilario: The Lion’s Eye by Mary Gentle In War…