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Berserked
Via Harlan Ellison … Fred Saberhagen passed away in his home in Albuquerque NM on the afternoon of 29 June. The family will announce a date for a Memorial Celebration later this year. In lieu of flowers donations would be appreciated to any of the following – Doctors without Borders. Catholic Relief, SFWA Emergency Medical…
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Cory Doctorow Podcasts The Hacker Crackdown
Having run through all of his own work, Cory Doctorow has started podcasting others’. He’s starting with Bruce Sterling’s seminal The Hacker Crackdown, which inspired any number of us little proto-geeks.I don’t pay much attention to podcasts, but I’ve heard Doctorow read at the occasional Worldcon panel and he does a pretty good job.Link
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Year’s Best SF 12 Now Out
Joy/Pagadan mentioned this on her blog, and was kind enough to send it along to me: In case you’re interested, the anthology, Year’s Best SF 12, is out now; it has a good selection of stories, including Dawn, and Sunset, and the Colours of the Earth by Michael Flynn. A section of this story uses…
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Farewell Summer – Sequel to Dandelion Wine
Cory Doctorow has a short review of Bradbury’s Farewell Summer–a sequel a mere 50 years in the writing–up over at BoingBoing.Link
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Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007
After suffering brain injuries from a recent fall, Kurt Vonnegut has passed away at the age of 84.Link
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“Total Dick-Head,” New PKD Blog
Doing anything other than reporting the title seems superfluous somehow.Link (via BoingBoing)
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6 Little Words
I think Margaret Atwood should be invited to be an O*W*C’er … From wired.com (Issue 14.11 – November 2006) “We’ll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”) and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers…
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It’s a Ubik Kind of Day
Frolix-8 blogger “Palmer Eldritch” runs a regular feature called “Which Philip K Dick Story Are We In Today?,” comparing the day’s news items to various PKD stories. A Scanner Darkly – “The state tells its people that the cameras are there for their benefit and to prevent crime, but the crime they are preventing is…
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Hugo and John W. Campbell Award finalists, 2007
Winners will be announced in the Japan Worldcon: Novel Michael F. Flynn, Eifelheim (Tor) Naomi Novik, His Majesty’s Dragon (Del Rey; also, Voyager, 1/06, as Temeraire) Charles Stross, Glasshouse (Ace) Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End (Tor) Peter Watts, Blindsight (Tor) Novella “The Walls of the Universe” by Paul Melko (Asimov’s, April/May 2006) “A Billion Eyes” by…
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Chip’s Picks – Richard Morgan
Once again, Chip is making a recommendation based on four books, two of which she hasn’t technically read yet. This is how Chip rolls, and if you don’t like it she invites you to get your own damn blog. Anyway. Richard Morgan–whom Shadow and I met at WorldCon, and who looks like a less-lived-in Fred…