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BLINKS
  Tue 6 Jan 09 —
» Bookslut: Paul Kincaid's Science Fiction Skeptic column Historicize Me Now
Mon 5 Jan 09 —
» Strange Horizons: 2008 In Review, with Martin Lewis, Gwyneth Jones, Abigail Nussbaum, Adam Roberts, Paul Kincaid, Graham Sleight, and others
» NY Times: Janet Maslin reviews Charlie Huston's The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death Sun 4 Jan 09 —
» Dave Langford's Ansible 258 includes news of F&SF's switching to bimonthly publication
» Friends of Ed Bryant » SF Reviews.net reviews Bruce Sterling's The Caryatids » January SF Site has reviews of Stephen Baxter, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Michael Swanwick, and others, plus an invitation to Vote For Your Favourite Books of the Past Year » Clarkesworld Magazine: Anthologists Discuss Their Craft, with John Joseph Adams, Ellen Datlow, James Lowder, Jonathan Strahan, Ann VanderMeer, and Jeff VanderMeer » January Planetary Stories has new fiction by Lou Antonelli & Edward Morris, Edgar Mortis, Michael Shack, and Anthony Larson » January Apex Magazine has new stories by Ruth Nestvold and Jason Palmer, and reprints from Eric James Stone and Ed Turner » io9: Why Are SF Books As Long As They Are? (earlier Blinks below)
FUTURE HISTORY
Author Events 5 - 11 Jan '09
Ellen Datlow & others celebrate Edgar Allan Poe; plus, Jan Burke, John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow, Scott Sigler, John Levitt Conventions 9-11 Jan » Rustycon -Seattle
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» Best Books of 2008 lists from io9, Bookgasm, and Pat's Fantasy Hotlist
» Independent: John Clute's Forrest J Ackerman obituary » LA Times Hero Complex blog about Orson Scott Card » Here's a Godzilla-inspired book trailer for James Morrow's forthcoming Shambling Towards Hiroshima » Website at the End of the Universe offers its annual calendar » Odyssey Podcasts features Nancy Kress on writing in scenes Tue 30 Dec 08 —
» Terry Pratchett to be knighted: Reuters; BBC; Times Online
Mon 29 Dec 08 —
» Barnes & Noble: Michael Dirda reviews Hope Mirlees; Paul Di Filippo reviews Benjamin Parzybok's Couch
» Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reviews Howard Waldrop's Other Worlds, Better Lives » Green Man Review's Elizabeth Bear Edition includes a profile, a toaste, her Winter Queen Speech, a reader's guide, and an interview about food » Neal Asher has posted his interview with Sci-Fi-London Sat 27 Dec 08 —
» Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Bear McCreary, composer for Battlestar Galactica and others
» Media Bistro's GalleyCat interviews Tachyon Publications' Jacob Weisman » Cosmos Magazine has free fiction Delivery, by Trent Jamieson Wed 24 Dec 08 —
» Patrick O'Leary's Ding, Ding, Ding -- A Christmas Story
Tue 23 Dec 08 —
» Sci Fi Weekly: John Clute reviews Gwyneth Jones' Spirit
» Ellen Datlow's photos from KGB Dec 17th, with Christopher Barzak and Alaya Dawn Johnson Sun 21 Dec 08 —
» Washington Post: Michael Dirda on Unearthing Ghostly Tales of Today, about small specialty presses including Ash-Tree Press, Old Earth Books, PS Publishing, Prime Books, Tachyon Press, and others
» Aqueduct Press blog has Best of 2008 essays by Mark Rich, Cynthia Ward and Therese Littleton, Rebecca Ore and Sue Lange, Jeffrey Ford and Wendy Walker, Lisa Tuttle and Cheryl Morgan, and others -- scroll way down on mainpage » Amazon.com's Omnivoracious has Jeffrey Ford's Top 10 Books of 2008 » The Agony Column has Nalo Hopkinson's and Geoff Ryman's SF in SF interviews, and a review of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet » BookSpotCentral has Favorite Reads of 2008 by Valashain, Russel D McLean, Maria Schneider, Victor Gischler, Damon, Jay Tomio, Robert Ward, and others » Broad Street Review: Tom Purdom Science fiction vs. science fantasy and last month's Philadelphia Science Fiction Conference, Philcon 2008 » Strange Horizons: John Clute reviews Jo Walton » Estronomicon's Christmas issue is now online Wed 17 Dec 08 —
» Elizabeth Hand has posted "Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol" online in its entirety
» CIO interviews Larry Niven, Robert J. Sawyer, Nancy Kress, and Charles Stross » Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews Lou Anders » Rick Kleffel reviews Timecrimes » SciFiDimensions debates The Day the Earth Stood Still » Jeff VanderMeer is back to blogging » Fantastic Literature's latest newsletter is online Sun 14 Dec 08 —
» Washington Post: Elizabeth Ward reviews Laura Miller's The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
» Salon: Rebecca Traister's A spy in the house of Narnia, about Miller's book; excerpt Fri 12 Dec 08 —
» Guardian: David Barnett on Forry Ackerman
» Sci Fi Wire: 25 Things We Miss About Uncle Forry » B&N: Paul Di Filippo on the New Weird » Coilhouse: David Forbes recalls Delany's Trouble on Triton » Philosophy Now: Nick DiChario on Kurt Vonnegut » BookSpotCentral interviews Matthew Stover |
Wednesday 31 December 2008NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Magazines: December
What's in new issues of Interzone, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Mythic Delirium, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Weird Tales PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Caitlín R. Kiernan : TransmutationsExcerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview. 
I will say up front (I've had interviewers in the past who simply refused to believe this), I never set out to write scary books. When people would talk to me about Silk, way back when, they'd say, 'Oh god, I'm so scared of spiders!' Well, I'm not scared of spiders. I adore spiders...
Tuesday 30 December 2008NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers
J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard slips a bit but still ranks in the top 10 on all lists that include it, while Stephenie Meyer and Charlaine Harris sustain their domination of hardcover and paperback lists. Sunday 28 December 2008PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Vernor Vinge: Surviving in ExtremistanExcerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview. 
It's not surprising that near-future novels are much harder to write than far-future ones. There's the obvious problem about having actual events eat your lunch. In my case, since it took so long to write Rainbows End (about five years), not only was there the usual risk that the story would look silly by the time it went out of print, I was also threatened by the possibility that events would make the story silly before I even turned it in!
Saturday 27 December 2008NEWS : Obituaries: December Obits
Notices of the recent deaths of Edd Cartier, Leo A. Frankowski, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, and James Cawthorn
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