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Miéville’s New Literary Movements
Amazon’s new Omnivoracious blog has a guest post by author China Miéville, discussing five literary movements that haven’t happened yet (he suggests naming the movements in advance and then writing books to fit them, which certainly would save a lot of time). He includes tips to help writers exploring a particular movement sound more erudite…
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Follow That Author
Quite a number of SF authors blog and/or use Twitter, so in case you’d like to follow some of your favorites here are a bunch of author blogs and Twitter feeds. (Lots more authors have a Web presence of some sort; this list only includes those with actual blogs.) Dan Abnett Blog Twitter Daniel Abraham…
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Annotated Tim Powers
Secret Histories is a huge 600-page annotated bibliography of the work of Tim Powers, whose great talent is weaving plausible fiction into the interstices of historical fact. The publisher has made a large chunk of the book available for free download. We’re so proud of Secret Histories that we want everyone to know what it’s…
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“Flow My Tears” Movie Optioned
Philip K. Dick’s work has been mined heavily for movie adaptations, and the latest work to be optioned is Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Halcyon Pictures, whose founders Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson produced Terminator Salvation, has announced plans to film the 1974 work about a minor celebrity who awakens after an assassination attempt…
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…what?
Every so often you run into something that exists in its own little pocket of weirdness, so far from every other weird thing that you can’t imagine what train of thought would have led to it. Shatnerquake is such a thing. It’s the first ShatnerCon with William Shatner as the guest of honor! But after…
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Locus Award Finalists Announced
The finalists for the Locus Awards (the best science fiction books and stories of the year, chosen by the general public) have been announced over at their site. Best science fiction novel entries are: Matter, Iain M. Banks City at the End of Time, Greg Bear Marsbound, Joe Haldeman Anathem, Neal Stephenson Saturn’s Children, Charles…
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Nebula Awards
The Nebula Awards 2009 were presented Saturday night in Los Angeles. Novel – Powers – Ursula K. Le Guin Novella – “The Spacetime Pool” – Catherine Asaro Novelette – “Pride and Prometheus” – John Kessel Short Story – “Trophy Wives” – Nina Kiriki Hoffman Script – “WALL-E” Andre Norton Award – Flora’s Dare: How a…
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RIP – JG Ballard
Cult author JG Ballard dies at 78 Cult?
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Interview an Author
To help advertise the launch of the new Voyager Books Website, Harper Collins has asked six science fiction/fantasy blogs to interview a selection of Voyager’s authors. They’re inviting their readers to suggest questions to ask each author. Big Dumb Object will be interviewing Cory Doctorow. Futurismic will interview Kim Stanley Robinson. SFF World has Robin…
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Science Fiction vs. Science
The BBC asked authors Ken MacLeod, Paul Cornell, Iain Banks and Ian Watson whether science fiction can keep up with modern science, and whether the genre needs to stay current with the latest breakthroughs in order to be relevant. They all give long and thoughtful responses to the question. My own thought is that it…