Electronic SFFH

E-zines

§ SF Site for mid-July has

• A Gormenghast give-away contest;
• Nick Gevers review of Asimov's June 2001;
• Reviews of books by Miéville, Williams, Byrne, Cadigan, Lee & Miller, and others;
• "Second Looks" reviews of books by Tepper, Heinlein, Engh, and Boyett;
• Gabriel Chouinard's Dislocated Fictions column, which interviews Del Rey editor Kuo-Yu Liang

§ Sci Fiction:

• Posted 7.18: The Other Real World by Howard Waldrop
• Michael Swanwick's Nitrogen

§ Science Fiction Weekly this week:

• John Clute's Excessive Candour column about William Tenn's collection short fiction Immodest Proposals
• A review by Kathie Huddleston of The Mists of Avalon: B.

New E-zine

§ Future Orbits, Short Science Fiction for the Digital World is a new bimonthly digital science fiction magazine published in major electronic book formats and distributed via email, with a premiere issue scheduled for release this Fall (2001). See site for submission guidelines.

E-zines

§ SF Site for early July announces its addition of Michael Swanwick's official site, with news, fiction, a bibliography, links, etc. Also:

• An interview with Harlan Ellison reprinted from Interzone
• Nick Gevers reviews the June F&SF
• Rich Horton reviews John Clute's Appleseed
• Rick Norwood reviews A.I.

§ Science Fiction Weekly has recently posted:

• Wil McCarthy's Lab Notes column about the state of real artificial intelligence and computer technology.
• Mark Wilson's reviews Peter Crowther's Futures -- the four-novella volumn that includes Ian McDonald's Sturgeon-winner "Tendeléo's Story" -- and Paul Di Filippo reviews Starlight 3
• Michael Cassutt follows up on his The Sci in Sci-Fi column and responses to it

§ Sci Fiction:

• Posted 7.11: His Own Back Yard by James P. Blaylock
• Classic reprint Bernie the Faust by William Tenn
• Michael Swanwick's Carbon [a take-off on Terry Bisson's infamous and web-famous "They're Made Out of Meat"] and Nitrogen

§ Strange Horizons:

• An interview with Gary A. Braunbeck
• Fiction by Steve Berman and by Michael J. Jasper
• Greg Beatty reviews Scott Mackay
• Mary Anne Mohanraj's editorial "Avoiding the Potholes: Adventures in Genre-Crossing"

§ Made In Canada Newsletter has a Guest Editorial by Campbell Award finalist Douglas Smith.

ME-zines

(Note: "Mezine" is Slate term for political journalists' personal websites, often containing links or quotations but otherwise entirely written by their publishers.)

§ David Langford's Ansible 168, July 2001 includes

• A scandalously incorrect Sunday Times article about Douglas Adams
• Maureen Kincaid Speller's report from "2001: A Celebration of British SF", held last month in Liverpool [Gary K. Wolfe's report will appear in the August issue of Locus Magazine]
• A "Thog's Masterclass" entry from Locus's own Edward Bryant

§ Mervius's Fantastica Daily has

• An advance review by Eva of Elizabeth Haydon's Destiny (Tor);
• Reviews by Eva of M.J. Engh's recently reissued Arslan and R.A. MacAvoy's Tea with the Black Dragon
• Interviews with Linda Nagata, Joan Slonczewski, and Donna McMahon

§ Lisa DuMond's MEviews has been updated with lots of new reviews.

June E-publications