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William Gibson Radio Interview
Says BoingBoing: Here’s a great radio interview with author William Gibson, recorded three years ago, but recently replayed on the This Week in Science radio show/podcast. The interview starts about 31:49 minutes into the MP3. Link
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Chip’s Picks – Neal Stephenson
I apologize for not posting anything of substance for a few weeks; real life came running up and bit me right in the butt. Fortunately I’m better now. Anyway, the latest installment in my ongoing Chip’s Picks project, is Neal Stephenson.
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Bookplates Blog Seeking Input
I received this e-mail today, from a blogger specializing in bookplates: Dear Chip, Sometime in February I plan to do something in the bookplate blog about the bookplates used by science fiction writers and collectors for their own libraries.I have a fairly interesting group of images lined up already but any scans or input from…
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A Look at Past Futures
Graham Sleight’s column “Yesterday’s Tomorrows” from Locus Magazine looks at classic works from a contemporary perspective.Link
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Cory Doctorow On Sun of Suns
Says Doctorow: Karl Schroeder’s new novel, Sun of Suns is the first book in a thrilling new steampunk/post-singularity/space-opera trilogy that is the finest and weirdest worldbuilding I can remember reading. Link to Review and Excerpts
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Chip’s Picks – Tim Powers
The third installment in my ongoing Chip’s Picks project, is Tim Powers Tim Powers! Whee! Tim Powers tips perilously close into straight fantasy, and…I don’t care. To be perfectly honest, the only real science fiction novel that Powers has written, Dinner at Deviant’s Palace, really, really sucks. Really, really hard. All of his good stuff–and…
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Amazon.com SF Picks of 2006
Amazon.com’s
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Chip’s Picks – Dan Simmons
Continuing the Chip’s Picks series, my next author to recommend will be Dan Simmons. Simmons has done quite a bit of work in the horror genre (Summer of Night, Song of Kali), and his science fiction is tinged with a lot of cringe-inducing imagery. However, his descriptions are amazingly rich and detailed, and his characters…
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Baen Books Free to Disabled Readers
From the site: Baen Books (www.baen.com), a publisher of science fiction, will provide its books to fans who are blind, paralysed, or dyslexic, or are amputees, in electronic form free of charge, effective immediately.Baen Books is making this offer in recognition of Veterans Day, and all our disabled military veterans. Many Baen authors are veterans…
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Chip’s Picks
One evening in chat, someone asked me for some “must-read” SF. I tossed together a list off the top of my cerebrum, and later posted it here on the site as a “Top Ten” list. I’ve decided to revisit the list as a series of blog posts, expanding upon the reasons behind some of my…