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BLINKS


» Bookslut: Paul Kincaid's Science Fiction Skeptic column Historicize Me Now

» 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

» 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

» Terry Pratchett to be knighted: Reuters; BBC; Times Online

» 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

» 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

» Patrick O'Leary's Ding, Ding, Ding -- A Christmas Story

» Sci Fi Weekly: John Clute reviews Gwyneth Jones' Spirit

» Ellen Datlow's photos from KGB Dec 17th, with Christopher Barzak and Alaya Dawn Johnson

» 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

» 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

» 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

» 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



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Gary Westfahl reviews The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and The Day the Earth Stood Still, and looks back at notable films from
1958: Science Fiction Film's Sense-of-Wonderful Year.

Wednesday 31 December 2008

NEWS : 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 : Transmutations

Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview.

caitlin kiernan 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 2008

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

beedle bard
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 2008

PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Vernor Vinge: Surviving in Extremistan

Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview.

vernor vinge 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 2008

NEWS : Obituaries: December Obits



Notices of the recent deaths of Edd Cartier, Leo A. Frankowski, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, and James Cawthorn

REVIEWS : Films :
Backward, Turn Backward, O Time, in Your Flight:
A Review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

the curious case of benjamin button Since film critics must so often complain that a film has shamelessly trashed or dumbed down its source material, it is refreshing to report that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is actually far richer and more nuanced than the 1922 F. Scott Fitzgerald story that inspired it.

Tuesday 23 December 2008

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

beedle bard J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard maintains #1 and #3 rankings on two prints lists, but slips underneath titles by Stephenie Meyer on today's Amazon lists. Stephen King's Just After Sunset still ranks among top ten fiction hardcovers on three lists, and Charlaine Harris' seven Sookie Stackhouse still all rank at New York Times.

Thursday 18 December 2008

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: first week December

Notable new SF/F/H books published in the first week of December are Christopher Barzak's The Love We Share Without Knowing, J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard, James P. Blaylock's The Knights of the Cornerstone, and Ellen Datlow's anthology Poe.

Wednesday 17 December 2008

REVIEWS : Films : 1958: Science Fiction Film's Sense-of-Wonderful Year

1958 It would be an interesting question for a panel at a science fiction convention: What was the most important year in the history of science fiction film? My own personal choice is a year that most people would not even consider: 1958. It's a year that commands special attention because a convergence of three separate developments combined to produce an unusual number of films which were unlike any other films that had preceded them and which still make for rewarding viewing today.

Tuesday 16 December 2008

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

beedle bard
J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard debuts at #1 on USA Today's list, #3 on San Francisco Chronicle's list, and remains #1 on all three Amazon lists today; Tobias S. Buckell's Halo: The Cole Protocol ranks significantly on trade paperback lists in its 2nd week.

Monday 15 December 2008

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Magazines: November-December


What's in new issues of Analog, Asimov's, Black Static, Flytrap, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Premonitions, Star*Line, Talebones, and Vector.

Sunday 14 December 2008

REVIEWS : Films :
Captain Klaatu and the Planeteers, or, The Day the Face Stood Still:
A Review of The Day the Earth Stood Still

the day the earth stood still I can value this film only for its unintended but interesting commentary on the ways that human society, and science fiction, have changed in the last fifty years...

Think about it: in this film, aliens have been carefully monitoring Earth not because they have any interest in human accomplishments, but only because they are fretting that this trivial species might be doing too much damage to one of the few worlds around that is capable of sustaining life.

Friday 12 December 2008

REVIEWS : Books : Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, December

spectrum 15 December New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include Spectrum 15: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art edited by Cathy & Arnie Fenner, Kelly Link's Pretty Monsters, K.J. Parker's The Company, Stephen King's Just After Sunset, and other titles by Aiken, Becket-Griffith, Blaylock, Carroll, Dean, Disch, Ford, Jones, Kelleghan, Lovecraft, Pratt, Rand, Rutkoski, and VanderMeer & VanderMeer.

Thursday 11 December 2008

NEWS : Bestsellers : Locus Magazine Bestsellers, December

anathem Bestsellers, compiled by Locus Magazine from specialty bookstores, are led by Neal Stephenson's Anathem, S.M. Stirling's The Sunrise Lands, Steven Erikson's Toll the Hounds, Michael Reaves's Star Wars: Street of Shadows: Coruscant Nights II, and R.A. Salvatore's The Orc King: Transitions, Book One.

Tuesday 9 December 2008

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

beedle bard
J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard remains at #1 on all three Amazon lists today, while Jim Butcher's Princeps' Fury and Tobias S. Buckell's Halo: The Cole Protocol debut solidly on fiction hardcover lists this week.

Sunday 7 December 2008

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New in Paperback: November

Notable titles in new paperback editions seen in November include John Scalzi's Agent to the Stars, Stephen King's Duma Key, Orson Scott Card's Zanna's Gift, and other titles by Acevedo, Clarke & Baxter, Drake, Flint & Weber, Lumley, Martin, McDevitt, Meluch, Ringo & Cochrane, and Turtledove; in October, Philip K. Dick's Humpty Dumpty in Oakland, Terry Pratchett's Making Money, and others.

Friday 5 December 2008

BREAKING NEWS : Death : Forrest J Ackerman

SF editor and über-fan Forrest J Ackerman died yesterday, December 4, 2008, at the age of 92. He coined the abbreviation "sci-fi" in the 1950s.
» Los Angeles Times; Geoff Boucher's Hero Complex blog
» Wikipedia
» SFWA News obit
» Classic Horror News
» Associated Press
» Forrest J Ackerman's Wide Webbed World

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: last week November

Notable new SF/F/H books seen the last week of November include Kristin Cashore's Graceling, Scott Westerfeld's Bogus to Bubbly: An Insider's Guide to the World of Uglies, and other titles by Holly Black & Ted Naifeh, Deborah Chester, Carlos Cortes, Eric Flint & Virginia DeMarce, Pamela Freeman, Martin H. Greenberg & Daniel M. Hoyt, Derek Gunn, Laura Reeve, Brent Weeks, and John Zakour.

Tuesday 2 December 2008

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

beedle bard
J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard ranks #1 on all three Amazon lists today, poised for its on-sale date this Thursday -- while Rowling's last Harry Potter book drops off all lists, after 17 months. Meanwhile, Cormac McCarthy sales shift to mass market, and Charlaine Harris maintains.

RESOURCES : Future History : Forthcoming Books

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Selected US and UK titles scheduled from December 2008 through September 2009, from Locus Magazine's December issue, are listed here by month.

Sunday 30 November 2008

NEWS : Locus Magazine : December Issue

december issue The December issue of Locus Magazine, mailed November 25th to subscribers, features interviews with Vernor Vinge and Caitlín R. Kiernan, listings of forthcoming books through September 2009, report and photos from World Fantasy Con, short fiction reviews by Gardner Dozois and Rich Horton, and reviews of new books by Christopher Barzak, Orson Scott Card, Elizabeth Bear, Ken MacLeod, and many others.






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Interviews with
Frederik Pohl and Darryl Gregory

Report on SF Publishing & Black Wednesday

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Interviews with
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Cory Doctorow:
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-- Previous Issue: October 2008 --

Interviews with
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Frederik Pohl on
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Interviews with Neal Stephenson and Gregory Frost

Forthcoming Books

Hugo Awards Ceremony reports

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Interviews with Michael Chabon and Greer Gilman

Locus Survey results

Obituary and appreciations of Thomas M. Disch

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