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Free Audio of Female SF Writers Reading John Scalzi Book
John Scalzi, author of Old Man’s War and its sequels, has posted a free audio edition of The Sagan Diary, a novella set in the same world. The story is told from the point of view of Jane Sagan, and Scalzi recruited Elizabeth Bear, Mary Robinette Kowal, Ellen Kushner, Karen Meisner, Cherie Priest, and Helen…
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Comedy SF Mashup Contest
Playing off his suggestion for A Canticle for Lebowski (Jeff Bridges as an immortal Dude wanders post-apocalyptic America searching for an intact bowling alley), Campbell Award-winning author Jay Lake is asking his blog readers to come up with similar science fiction/comedy mashups. Me, Myself, and I Robot. A man discovers he has two personalities, one…
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Timeline of Science Fiction Inventions
Technovelgy has a neat list of the first appearance in print of many SF inventions (ansibles, waldoes, and over 1,100 others).Link
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Overlooked Books of 2006
Locus Online has a list of “overlooked” science fiction from 2006.Link
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Ian McDonald’s River of Gods Now in U.S. Edition
McDonald’s “bollypunk” River of Gods, which impressed the heck out of Shadow, has finally got a U.S. edition, published by Pyr Books (Shadow had to get his from Amazon U.K.). Since I haven’t yet managed to convince Shadow to do guest reviews on this blog, you can read Cory Doctorow’s review of it here.Link (via…
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Fast Forward 1: SF Review
Cory Doctorow has a lot of glowing things to say about Fast Forward 1, the first installment in an SF anthology edited by Lou Anders. Volume one has some stupendous stories. In Kage Baker’s humorous space opera “Plotters and Shooters,” a dysfunctional space-station’s cherished defense corps are upset by a tightly-wound otaku. In Elizabeth Bear’s…
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If You Like…
I’m going to try to resurrect the “If You Like…” feature from the old site here in occasional blog entries, with an eye to eventually gathering up the suggestions and spanging them into searchable database form. The aim of this project is to suggest authors you might enjoy reading based on their similarity to authors…
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For GRRM fans
From http://grrm.livejournal.com/ 17th January 2007 12:20pm: HBO Options A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE Yes, it’s true. Yes, this is the Big News that I have been hinting at. No, the Big News was not the pizza crawl, or the delivery of the new WILD CARDS book, though of course I’m excited about those as…
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Sci Fi to Produce Diamond Age Miniseries
Neal Stephenson’s Hugo award-winning The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer is being made into a six-hour miniseries for the Sci Fi Channel. When a prominent member of society concludes that the futuristic civilization in which he lives is stifling creativity, he commissions an interactive book for his daughter that serves as a…
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Robert Anton Wilson, RIP
Robert Anton Wilson passed away early yesterday morning. From his final blog post: I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread. I love you all and I deeply implore you to keep the lasagna flying. Please pardon my levity, I don’t see how to take death seriously. It seems absurd. Fnord