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Triplanetary Free Online
Thanks to Project Gutenberg, E.E. “Doc” Smith’s classic space opera Triplanetary is now available online, complete with 1934 Amazing Stories covers and inside illustrations.Link (via BoingBoing)
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Ficlets – Collaborative Short Fiction
I’m not entirely sure why, but “Ficlet” looks vaguely pornographic.Anyway, this site strikes me as sort of similar to the “SF Story Tag” chats that Gedi hosts sometimes. You publish a short (no more than 1,024 characters) fragment of fiction on the site, then other users can expand on that with a prequel or sequel,…
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Clockpunk: Serious Hair-Splitting in the Subgenera
I found this on BoingBoing, and like Cory Doctorow’s comment about it: “Clockpunk” — a sub-genre of science fiction — appears to have been created while I wasn’t looking Essentially, it’s a subset of Steampunk, but it pushes the time period back to the Renaissance instead of the Victorian era.The link goes to a new…
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“Most Significant” SF/Fantasy of the Past 50 Years
I found this list of “The Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years, 1953-2002” on Movin’ Meat, who found it on Pharyngula, who was just linking to Tikistitch, who found it on the The News Blog, where the link trail ran cold and I finally wound up searching for the phrase.…
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Chip’s Picks – Roger Zelazny
The latest addition to the continuing Chip’s Picks project (which is “continuing” in the sense of “not entirely defunct” rather than “updated with anything approaching regularity, sorry about that”), is Roger Zelazny. Zelazny writes a very loose sort of SF–what I suppose would be called “soft” science fiction–which hints at technology but doesn’t discuss the…
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2006 Nebula Final Ballot
The 2006 Nebulas will be awarded at the Nebula Awards Banquet at the Marriott, Financial Center in New York City on Saturday, May 12, 2007. Novels From the Files of the Time Rangers by Richard Bowes The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford The Privilege of the Sword by Ellen Kushner To Crush the…
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Machine of Death: Call for Stories
Machine of Death is an upcoming published anthology of short stories edited by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki, inspired by this episode of Ryan’s Dinosaur Comics.They’re soliciting short story submissions for the book, and submissions are free and open to anyone. Your mission, as a writer, is to come up with the best…
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Texas A&M’s SF/Fantasy Database
I didn’t know this resource even existed. Neat! Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database is an inclusive tool, designed to cover all aspects of science fiction, fantasy, horror, supernatural and weird fiction. History, criticism, commentary, fan writings and some reviews are all included, although book reviews are left to Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Review…
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Help Save the Pandemonium Bookstore
Boston’s Pandemonium SF bookstore is in danger of going under due to a costlier-than-expected move. They’re trying to raise money to keep the store open by selling T-shirts (“Buy a shirt, or the store gets it!”). There are far too few good SF bookstores left, so if you want a neat T-shirt (I love January’s)…
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Locus Reader Poll Now Open
Locus magazine has posted the Web version of its awards ballot, covering works published in 2006. To vote, go here.