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— Field Inspections —
SFFH Reviews and Articles in General Publications
Tue 12.30 —
» NPR, All Things Considered: Aaron Freeman visits WindyCon and comments on science fiction fans [click on audio link]
Thu 12.25 —
» Guardian: Why J.G. Ballard turned down a royal honor
» LA Times: Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist
» Pans for Paycheck from
— Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
— Elvis Mitchell, NY Times
— Manohla Dargis, LA Times
Tue 12.23 —
» Telegraph: profile of Christopher Paolini
Mon 12.22 —
» NY Times Book Review: short reviews of Philip Pullman and Cornelia Funke
» Washington Post: Douglas E. Winter reviews Peter Straub
Sun 12.21 —
» NY Times: Caryn James complains that The Return of the King isn't a chick flick
» Also, article about a fan's Firefly DVD
» NPR: The Hollywood Afterlife of Philip K. Dick; Tamora Pierce interview (click on audio links)
» Green Man Review: Jane Yolen's The Winter Queen Speaks
» Birmingham News: article about the new Argosy Magazine
Fri 12.19 —
» Village Voice: Joseph McElroy reviews Le Guin and Gorodischer
» Reviews in Rain Taxi: VanderMeer & Roberts' Disease Guide; Cory Doctorow's collection; Colin Wilson's YA series
» From the New York Times archives:
— 1954: W.H. Auden
reviews The Fellowship of the Ring
— 1955: Donald Barr
reviews The Two Towers
— 1956: W.H. Auden
reviews The Return of the King
Thu 12.18 —
» The New Yorker, Alex Ross: Wagner vs. Tolkien
Wed 12.17 —
• More on The Return of the King:
— Washington Post: Michael Dirda on
what inspired Tolkien
— Roger Ebert
quibbles; *** 1/2
— Salon: Andrew O'Hehir's review
Tue 12.16 —
» Raves for The Return of the King from
— David Edelstein, Slate
— Kenneth Turan, LA Times
— Elvis Mitchell, NY Times
— Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
— Paul Clinton, CNN
— Named Best Picture by NY Film Critics
» Time: review of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume II
Sun 12.14 —
» Washington Post: Paul Di Filippo reviews Clement, Watson, King, Hand; Elizabeth Ward reviews Philip Reeve
» LA Times: article on Tolkien's great-grandson; profile of Philip Pullman
» Guardian: Jonathan Lethem profile
» CBC News: article on Heinlein's new long-lost novel
» Canadian bookseller Chapters & Indigo's Best of 2003 SF list led by Robert J. Sawyer; fantasy list by Stephen King
» SF Chronicle: Best Books of 2003
Fri 12.12 —
• January: review of A Yuletide Universe; review of Straub's lost boy lost girl
• Guardian article on nerds with a visit to Forbidden Planet
• Guardian: Gwyneth Jones' top 10 SF by women
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Best SF/F/H Books of 2003
Wed 12.10 —
• OneWorld: Arthur C. Clarke interview
Tue 12.09 —
• Washington Post: Michael Dirda's quirky seasonal wish list includes Davidson's Limekiller (near the end)
• Kansas City Star: 2003's Notable Books include Atwood, Bishop, Kress, Shepard, and other SF titles [log-in required]
• December Wired: The Second Coming of Philip K. Dick
Mon 12.08 —
• SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Robin McKinley, Philip Baruth, and Ellen Datlow's The Dark
Sun 12.07 —
• Guardian: essay on writing by Terry Pratchett
Thu 12.04 —
• KCRW, Bookworm: Jonathan Lethem appears today Dec 4th, 2:30 p.m. PST
• NPR, All Things Considered: Alan Cheuse reviews Paul Park's The Three Marys (click on audio link)
Wed 12.03 —
• Salon: article on the fellowship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien
Tue 12.02 —
• Guardian: Michael Marshall Smith reviews Peter Straub
• Finish Michael Moorcock's story
• Independent: Matt Thorne reviews Stephen King
Sun 11.30 —
• NY Times Book Review: Julie Gray reviews Louis Bayard's Mr. Timothy
• NY Times Op-Ed: New Zealander Andrew Johnston reflects on Tolkien
Sat 11.29 —
• Guardian: Michael Moorcock reviews VanderMeer's Veniss Underground
Fri 11.28 —
• NY Times surveys classic haunted house movies
• LA Times: what really happened to HAL's evil eye?
Wed 11.26 —
• Slate summarizes the reactions to Stephen King's National Book Award
Tue 11.25 —
• Independent: Mary Flanagan reviews A.S. Byatt's Little Black Book of Stories
• Guardian: China Miéville's top 10 weird fiction
• Globe and Mail: John Clute reviews SF by Canadians--Sawyer, Robinson, de Lint, Wilson
Mon 11.24 —
• SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Stephen King
Fri 11.21 —
• More about Stephen King's NBA speech from nonfiction judge Terry Teachout [via]
Wed 11.19 —
• Boston Globe: long article on the cultural and commercial status of The Lord of the Rings
Tue 11.18 —
• Austin American-Statesman: article about the new Argosy Magazine, with input from editor Lou Anders
Mon 11.17 —
• HowStuffWorks: How Illustration Works, featuring The Brothers Hildebrandt
• Observer: Shelley Jackson's latest project involves tattooing
Fri 11.14 —
• Sunday NY Times Book Review: special Children's Books issue includes review of Paolini's Eragon, and Gregory Maguire on a collaboration by Maurice Sendak and Tony Kushner
Fri 11.14 —
• Book Magazine: Nick Sagan profile
• Denver Post calls Quicksilver Magnum opus of geek fiction
• Independent: Nick Hasted reviews Quicksilver
• January: Sue Bursztynski reviews Simmons' Ilium
• Telegraph: Sam Leith surveys graphic novels
• USA Today: Update on Eragon teenaged author Christopher Paolini
• BBC Radio: China Miéville, Justina Robson, Brian Aldiss, and others debate literature and SF: click here then select Wednesday under 'listen to broadcasts'
Wed 11.12 —
• Salon: Polly Shulman reviews David Foster Wallace's history of infinity
• January: Hugh Nissenson interview, Stewart O'Nan review
Mon 11.10 —
• NYT:
Editorial Observer Viewing California Politics Through the Lens of a Science-Fiction Movie
• Janet Maslin reviews Peter Straub
• Arizona Republic: article on The Matrix with input from Paul Di Filippo
Sun 11.09 —
• NYT Book Review: Gerald Jonas reviews Philip Baruth, Ian Watson, John C. Wright
Fri 11.07 —
• Slate: Where The Matrix went wrong
Thu 11.06 —
• Underwhelming reviews for The Matrix Revolutions:
• David Edelstein, Slate: "a slam-bang, dreary mess"
• Andrew O'Hehir,
Salon: "leaves the imagination hungry"
• A.O. Scott, NYT: "overall atmosphere of exhaustion"
• Stephen Hunter, WaPo: "a soggy mess"
• Yet Roger Ebert awards it three stars
Tue 11.04 —
• National Post: profile of William Gibson
Mon 11.03 —
• Publishers Weekly: reviews editor Jeff Zaleski: My Say: The Need to Read Stephen King
• NYT: article about amnesia movies, including upcoming PKD-inspired Paycheck
• LA Times: essay about remastered Alien DVD, with inputs from David J. Skal and Gordon Van Gelder
• article about the Alien series; follow-up compares first film to The Andromeda Strain
• Roger Ebert's 'Great Movies' retrospective review of Alien
Fri 10.31 —
• NY Times: Philip Pullman Op-Ed: Why I Don't Believe in Ghosts
Thu 10.30 —
• January: reviews of Neal Stephenson and Neil Gaiman
Mon 10.27 —
• Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand's For the Love of the Dark
Sun 10.26 —
• NY Times: Charles Taylor reviews Stewart O'Nan
• Washington Post: Bill Sheehan reviews McDevitt, Swanwick, Martin, Clute
Sat 10.25 —
• LA Times: Audrey Niffenegger's, and MacAdam/Cage Publishing's, Cinderella story
Fri 10.24 —
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Dorman T. Shindler reviews Ellen Datlow's The Dark and others
• BookSense: Jeff VanderMeer article about creating his Disease Guide
Wed 10.22 —
• Times-Picayune: article about George Alec Effinger with inputs from Barbara Hambly and Marty Halpern
Tue 10.21 —
• JS Online (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel): article on horror with inputs from Peter Straub, Tananarive Due, Joe Nassise, and Ellen Datlow
• Guardian: Cornelia Funke vs Hollywood
Mon 10.20 —
• Guardian: M. John Harrison reviews Alan Garner
• Philip Pullman celebrates Art Spiegelman
• Globe and Mail: Nathalie Atkinson reviews Neil Gaiman
Sun 10.19 —
• NY Times: Laura Miller essay Spooked discusses Peter Straub
• Washington Post: review of Tananarive Due's The Good House
• review of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman: Endless Nights
• San Francisco Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Straub, Due, Hirshberg, Gaiman
• review of Stewart O'Nan's The Night Country
Wed 10.15 —
• NY Times: article about Art Spiegelman's current projects, including Little Lit
• Washington Post: review of Michael Dirda's memoir
Mon 10.13 —
• BBC Radio 4: radio programme Open Book about the world of SF, with Stephen Baxter, Pat Cadigan, and others (entry page)
• Village Voice: Nick Mamatas reviews Jeff VanderMeer and Mark Roberts' The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
• Paul Levinson in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution comments about Schwarzenegger and the fame game
Sat 10.11 —
• Sunday Washington Post Book World: Bill Sheehan reviews Stewart O'Nan; Elizabeth Hand reviews Neal Stephenson
Fri 10.10 —
• Sunday NYT Book Review: Gerald Jonas reviews Catherine Asaro, Tanith Lee, Cory Doctorow, Paul Levinson
• National Post [Canada]: When science and fiction collide, about John W. Campbell's involvement with the Cartmill Affair
Wed 10.08 —
• Publishers Weekly: Peter Straub profile
Tue 10.07 —
• NY Times: profile of Eragon author Christopher Paolini
Mon 10.06 —
• SF Weekly: John Clute reviews Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver
• Slate: Timothy Noah recalls William Steig: The Art of the Sulk
• Slate's Book Club begins discussion of Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude
• Guardian: review of Ballard's Millennium People
Fri 10.03 —
• NY Times Book Review: Polly Shulman reviews Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver
• Fresh Air (NPR): interview with Jonathan Lethem
Sun 09.28 —
Reviews—
• NY Times Book Review: Kerry Fried reviews Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment
• Washington Post Book World: Jennifer Howard reviews Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment
Fri 09.26 —
Rain Taxi:
• reviews of 2 spec fic anthologies, The Silver Gryphon and Angel Body —
• plus review of Lethem's "next contender for the Great American Novel"
• and review of Ray Bradbury's latest collection
Thu 09.25 —
• Salon: Laura Miller reviews Neil Gaiman, "today's master of fantasy"
• CNN/AP: profile of Neil Gaiman
Wed 09.24 —
• Salon: Andrew Leonard reviews Quicksilver
• Newsweek on 19-year-old author Christopher Paolini
• Newsweek interview of Neal Stephenson
More on Jonathan Lethem:
• San Francisco Chronicle review
• CNN/AP profile
• Slate on Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver
Sun 09.21 —
• NY Times Book Review: A.O. Scott reviews Jonathan Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude
Sat 09.20 —
• NY Times: Edward Rothstein on Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver
Fri 09.19 —
• Boston.com: Harold Bloom on Stephen King's award: a terrible mistake [also LA Times]
Wed 09.17 —
• CNN: Neil Gaiman reviewed
• Village Voice: review of Kelly Link's anthology Trampoline
Tue 09.16 —
New York Times:
• Michiko Kakutani reviews Jonathan Lethem's TFOS
• Lethem profiled
• editorial about Stephen King's award
• Slate picks Lethem's TFOS for its new book club
Sun 09.14 —
• Guardian: Doris Lessing pays tribute to Mikhail Bulgakov
• Austin Chronicle: review of SF Site columnist Rick Klaw's Geek Confidential
• LA Times [may require subscriber login]: feature profile of Jonathan Lethem; review and excerpt
• Montreal Gazette: review of Claude Lalumière's anthology Island Dreams
• SpaceDaily: John Carter McKnight column responds to Alex Irvine's Sept F&SF novella
Fri 09.12 —
• Sunday NYT Book Review: Gerald Jonas reviews Robert Charles Wilson, Lian Hearn, and Nick Sagan
• Salon: rave review of Jonatham Lethem's The Fortress of Solitude
Thu 09.11 —
• The Globe and Mail: Spider Robinson editorial Forward, into the past (based on his Hugo ceremony toastmaster speech)
Tue 09.09 —
• Reviews of J.G. Ballard's new novel Millennium People in the UK Press--
Guardian
Telegraph
Independent
Mon 09.08 —
• Washington Post Book Club: Michael Dirda presents Gaiman & Pratchett's Good Omens
• San Francisco Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Kage Baker, Doug Chiang & Orson Scott Card, Liz Williams
Thu 09.04 —
• The Globe and Mail: local newspaper coverage of Torcon 3
Tue 09.02 —
• Washington Post: Elizabeth Ward reviews Le Guin
Sun 08.24 —
• Washington Post: Fiona Kelleghan reviews Sheri S. Tepper, Dan Simmons, Datlow/Windling's Best Fantasy, and others
• Toronto Star: Robert J. Sawyer's sf story The Stanley Cup Caper [if link invalid, use 14-day search for 'Sawyer']
Wed 08.20 —
• Guardian: Michael Moorcock reviews Jeffrey Ford
• NPR: audio report on William Gibson's Pattern Recognition
Mon 08.18 —
• The Modern Word: review of VanderMeer's City of Saints and Madmen
• Christian Science Monitor: interviews/reviews of Paul Levinson, teen author Christopher Paolini
• Reason: Michael Valdez Moses essay on "The nostalgic yet progressive appeal of wizards, hobbits, and Jedi knights"
Tue 08.12 —
• Washington Post: review of nonfiction Rocket Dreams
Thu 08.07 —
• NPR: audio file of Dan Moran's version of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels (aka Los Angeles)
Mon 08.04 —
• Steven H Silver interviews Dan Simmons
• Washington Post: Zofia Smardz reviews Graham Joyce's "funny, bewitching" The Facts of Life; Michael Dirda covers Robert Aickman and Austrian fantasy
• Publishers Weekly: long profile of Neil Gaiman
• The Age: Harry Potter backlash backlash
• Guardian: Michael Marshall Smith's top 10 horror books
• USA Today: Denise Kersten reviews Le Guin's Changing Planes
Sun 08.03 —
• Los Angeles Times: long assessment by Scott Timberg of Bradbury Stories
Fri 08.01 —
• Dorman T. Shindler reviews and interviews Dan Simmons
• NY Review of Books: David Hajdu reviews "Comics for Grown-Ups"
Tue 07.29 —
• Washington Post Book World: Gregory Feeley reviews Ian R. MacLeod, Dozois's 20th Year's Best, Charles Stross, and Trampoline
• San Francisco Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Dan Simmons, The Silver Gryphon, and Andrew Fox
Fri 07.25 —
• NY Times Book Review: Gerald Jonas reviews Dan Simmons, John C. Wright, Ursula K. Le Guin
Wed 07.23 —
• The New Yorker: Jonathan Lethem interview and novel excerpt
Sun 07.20 —
• NY Times: The Phenomenology of Harry
• The Observer: Robin McKie remembers John Wyndham
• LA Times: Editorial cites Bradbury's "Rocket Man"
• San Francisco Chronicle: reviews of Le Guin's Changing Planes and of Hoffman's The Probable Future
Wed 07.16 —
• Salon: fiction by William Shunn
• Washington Post: brief review of Jane Yolen's latest
• January: Sue Bursztynski reviews Harry Potter 5; Mrinal Bose reviews Ashok K. Banker
• Guardian: Harry Potter is gay?
• The Age: fantasy dominates Australia's top 100 favourite books; Margaret Atwood pays tribute to George Orwell; summary of A.S. Byatt's scorn for Harry Potter
Sun 07.13 —
• NY Times: A.O. Scott on movies: The Pretentious Summer Superhero
Sat 07.12 —
• Sunday NY Times: John Leonard reviews Harry Potter 5
Fri 07.11 —
• Dismal reviews for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen—
• Charles Taylor, Salon
• Roger Ebert [*]
• Elvis Mitchell, NY Times
• Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
Thu 07.10 —
• Book Magazine: Stephen King essay America the Literate [first part]
• NY Times: Caleb Carr supports A.S. Byatt re: Harry Potter
Wed 07.09 —
• Salon: Charles Taylor responds to A.S. Byatt re: Harry Potter
• Publishers Weekly: long article about marketing fantasy & SF books
• Electric Story: Lucius Shepard reviews The Hulk
Tue 07.08 —
• Boston Globe: James Sallis Revisit[s] sci-fi's neglected hero and others: Robert Sheckley
• Boston Globe: audiobook reviews: Rowling, Fforde, Atwood
• Independent: Nick Hasted reviews two by Alan Moore
• The New Yorker: Anthony Lane reviews Terminator 3
Mon 07.07 —
• NY Times: A.S. Byatt wonders about Harry Potter
• Entertainment Weekly [subscribers only]: Stephen King reviews Harry Potter 5
• LA Times [reg. required]: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang reviews Sterling's Tomorrow Now
Thu 07.03 —
• CNN reviews VanderMeer's Veniss Underground
Wed 07.02 —
• Reviews of Terminator 3—
• David Edelstein, Slate
• Roger Ebert [** 1/2]
• A.O. Scott, NY Times
• Andrew O'Hehir, Salon
• Kenneth Turan, LA Times
Wed 06.25 —
• New York Times: Op-Ed by William Gibson
Tue 06.24 — Field Inspections
• New York Times: Margaret Atwood explains science fiction, speculative fiction, and fantasy
Sun 06.22 —
News
• CNN: Harry Potter mania
More Harry Potter Reviews
• Guardian (UK)
• The Age (Australia)
New York Times Reviews
• review of Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book
• Elizabeth Devereaux on Fantasy vs. Escapism
• short reviews of Terry Pratchett, Diana Wynne Jones, Holly Black
Sat 06.21 —
• New York Times: Michiko Kakutani reviews Harry Potter 5
Fri 06.20 —
• USA Today reviews Harry Potter 5: "richly deserves the hype"
• Slate's Summary Judgment
• Reviews of The Hulk:
• Roger Ebert
• David Edelstein, Slate
• Charles Taylor, Salon
• A.O. Scott, NY Times
• Manohla Dargis, LA Times
Tue 06.17 —
• Time magazine's Harry Potter cover story
• Washington Post: Paul Di Filippo reviews Christopher Moore's Fluke..
• Guardian: Oliver Morton reviews Martin Rees's Our Final Century
• New York Times: Letter responds to Sven Birkerts' "science fiction can't be literature" review
Mon 06.16—
• New York Times: Janet Maslin reviews Christopher Moore's Fluke, Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
Sun 06.15—
• San Francisco Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Tad Williams, Warren Ellis, and Christopher Moore
• Stanley Kauffman on The Matrix films, via Roger Ebert's column (third question)
Fri 06.13 evening—
• Sunday New York Times: Gerald Jonas reviews Richard K. Morgan, Robert Silverberg, and Fred Saberhagen
Fri 06.13—
• Salon reviews The Eye
• Lucius Shepard reviews The Matrix Reloaded
—06.12—
• Salon reviews Tad Williams
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Amazon offers free audio excerpt of the new Harry Potter
—06.10—
•
Mark W. Tiedemann editorializes about Sven Birkerts
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Tim Sullivan reviews Shepard, Bishop, Album Zutique, and Hayford Peirce
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ZDNet: Bruce Sterling interviewed
•
Fictionwise.com currently offers Paul Di Filippo's A Year in the Linear City for free
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Columbus Dispatch article about Charles Coleman Finlay
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— Aether Vibrations —
Science, fiction, and points in between
Sat 12.27 —
» NY Times: 2003's Most Overrated and Underrated Ideas
Thu 12.25 —
» LA Times: 36 attempts to reach Mars
Tue 12.23 —
» The Hartford Courant: article on the book industry's output: 150,000 titles/year
Mon 12.22 —
» NY Times: theater review of A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
» LA Times: art review of nano exhibit at LA Country Museum of Art » LACMALab
» LA Times: Paul Park Op-Ed Jesus Rules in the Sequel
Thu 12.18 —
» LA Times: "Space Seed" Khan collaborator Madlyn Rhue dies
Wed 12.17 —
• Wall Street Journal: Orson Scott Card's
The Campaign of Hate and Fear
• Guardian: Zoe Williams'
Reading immaterial, wondering about the popularity of children's books
Wed 12.03 —
• Entertainment Weekly: Stephen King on the laziness of baby boomers
• Umberto Eco lecture: Will books become obsolete? [via PW Daily]
Tue 12.02 —
• Guardian: Surprise UK bestseller about punctuation
Tue 11.25 —
• Telegraph: Jasper Rees explores the appeal to adults of children's books
Mon 11.24 —
• NY Times Book Review: Margo Jefferson essay discusses Gabriel Zaid's
So Many Books
Thu 11.20 —
• NPR audio interview: Artist Bruce McCall on Schematics of Unlikely Art [scroll down to McCall item]
• MSNBC: Seven flights of fancy that fizzled about flying cars, space colonies, etc.
• The Trouble With Self Publishing [via]
Tue 11.18 —
• Time: 25 years of graphic novels (first of two parts)
Tue 11.11 —
• LA Times: review of Michael Dirda's memoir
• NY Times: 25th anniversary Science Times addresses 25 provocative questions including Mars, Atlantis, robots, aliens, the paranormal
Mon 11.10 —
• MeaningofLife.tv - So many questions... so little time
Fri 11.07 —
• Malaysia bans 'ghostly' tales
Mon 11.03 —
• Kenn Brown's image of the week: Space Elevator
• NY Times Book Review: Laura Miller essay on American short fiction
Sat 10.25 —
• NY Times: Charles Murray's cultural scorecard
Fri 10.24 —
• More on Amazon's new search capacity from Steven Johnson and Wired
• Danger, Will Robinson
Thu 10.23 —
• Search Amazon's books by content, beginning today
Wed 10.22 —
• NY Times: John Noble Wilford: Are space photos art?
Sat 10.18 —
• NY Times: Novels that deal with science
Wed 10.15 —
• Observer's 100 greatest novels of all time
[via] includes Huxley, Orwell, Tolkien, Pullman
• NY Times: National Book Award finalists
Tue 10.14 —
• China Launches its first manned spaceflight
• BBC News: Booker Prize to DBC Pierre
Fri 10.10 —
• [For bloggers and web gurus] Joel on Software: All About Unicode and Character Sets
Wed 10.01 —
• PW: Borders wants publishers to stop putting prices on books
• Also coming soon: 13-digit ISBNs
• Bruce Sterling: Ten Technologies That Deserve to Die (via)
Fri 09.26 —
• Atlantic Monthly: Paul Davies essay E.T. and God: Could earthly religions survive the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe?
Tue 09.23 —
• Guardian: how killer previews of new books destroy sales
Sat 09.13 —
• The New Yorker: Talk of the Town piece about Wesley Clark, SF fan
Fri 09.12 —
• Slate: Book Report about publishing trade journals (PW, etc.)
Mon 09.08 —
• NY Times Book Review: Laura Miller ponders Great Books and wonders if reading is just a solitary vice
Sat 07.26 —
• NY Times: America Yawns at Foreign Fiction
Wed 07.23 —
• Whole Earth Mag: annotated reprint of Vernor Vinge's 1993 Singularity article [PDF file]
• Wired: August Superpower Issue contents now online
Sun 07.20 —
• NY Times Magazine: Profile of Random House CEO Peter Olson
Fri 07.18 —
• Notes on Neal Stephenson's USENIX keynote address
Wed 07.16 —
• Wired: Wil McCarthy on optical camouflage
Sat 07.12 —
• Are you a bright? asks Daniel C. Dennett and Richard Dawkins
Mon 06.23 —
Aether Vibrations—
• New York Times:
• Newt Gingrich interviewed
• What 'Orwellian' doesn't mean
Fri 06.13—
• New York Times:
• Egypt bans The Matrix Reloaded "because the film is violent and because it raises controversial issues about human creation..."
• Route 666 to be renumbered
—06.10—
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USA Today, 4 Jun: Is there another Earth out there? with quotes from Robert J. Sawyer and Paul Levinson
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— E-Publications —
what's new at other SFFH sites
Tue 12.30 —
» Emerald City's Issue #100 has contributions from Gary K. Wolfe, David Brin, John Clute, Ken MacLeod, and others
» SF Weekly: John Clute reviews Robert A. Heinlein
Sat 12.27 —
» Gabe Chouinard launches s1ngularity::criticism
Sun 12.21 —
» December Lost Pages: Ray Vukcevich, Richard Calder, Bruce Holland Rogers, et al
Tue 12.09 —
• Fortean Bureau: reprint of Cory Doctorow's Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar)
Sun 12.07 —
• December Ansible
Fri 12.05 —
• Tangent Online: Dave Truesdale announces new managing editor Chris Markwyn
Wed 12.03 —
• Kim Newman's hyperlinked novel Life's Lottery, from Crow Street and Scorpius Team; 190,000 words in 300 hyperlinked chapters; available from eBookAd.com
Tue 12.02 —
• Group blog Futurismic to publish fiction: guidelines; editorial essay
Sun 11.30 —
• Emerald City: November issue of Cheryl Morgan's webzine has reviews, convention reports, comments on award winners
• Fantastica Daily: John C. Wright responds to Emerald City's negative review of The Golden Age
Fri 11.14 —
• E-Pub: November Tatlin's Tower with fiction by Corin Cummings
Wed 11.12 —
• E-Pub: Latest Clam City News
Tue 11.11 —
• November Broadsheet (newsletter for Broad Universe) with Nancy Kress, Pat Murphy, Wen Spencer, Liz Williams, Lyda Morehouse
Mon 11.10 —
• Jeff VanderMeer's World Fantasy Con report
• Salon: William Shunn fiction Strong Medicine
Thu 11.06 —
New at other SFFH E-Publications—
• SF Weekly: John Clute reviews Chad Oliver
• Strange Horizons: Cartoon by Mark Heath, fiction and poetry by Tim Pratt, new fundraising drive
• November SF Site: reviews of Moon, Straub, Bujold; column by Rick Klaw
• Sci Fiction: new John Kessel story; Swanwick's up to Ununhexium
• The Infinite Matrix: report from India
• The Alien Online: Peter Crowther interview, John Jarrold reports from Korea; news, reviews, columns
• Debut Ultraverse: Tim Pratt, fiction, Peter Thorpe interview, etc.
• November Quantum Muse includes new discussion forum
• November Lost Pages: fiction by Ernest Hogan, Bruce Holland Rogers
• November SF Crowsnest: Chris Moriarty interview; lots of book and media reviews
• November scifidimensions: Christopher Paolini spotlight; reviews; commentary on Arnold
Tue 11.04 —
• Bruce Sterling's new blog Beyond the Beyond debuts on wired.com
• Charles Stross' blog loaned to Evil Overlord
• John Savage: problems with Amazon's new search feature
• China Miéville on Tolkien [via]
Sun 10.26 —
• October issue of Emerald City
Thu 10.23 —
• Fantastic Metropolis: "Taking the Pulse" features excerpts from 10 forthcoming novels
Mon 10.20 —
• SF Weekly: Wil McCarthy's Labnotes on China's advance into space
• Kim Antieau interviews Michaela Roessner [archive link]
• Strange Horizons: Cheryl Morgan interviews Liz Williams
• SF Site: Trent Walters interviews Forrest Aguirre
Mon 10.13 —
• Strange Horizons: Jeremy Smith's The Failure of Fahrenheit 451 -- also in edited form at SF Bay Guardian
Fri 10.10 —
New SFFH E-Publications—
• The Infinite Matrix: latest Runcible Ansible, with items about J.M. Coetzee and Experience Science Fiction
• Fantastic Metropolis: Nick Mamatas interview and fiction
• October Lost Pages: fiction by Bruce Holland Rogers et al; Richard Bleiler's grumbles about Heinlein; column by Paul Di Filippo
• October Deep Magic, a pdf e-zine of high fantasy and science fiction
• October Quantum Muse, "Quantum Eye for the Straight Guy edition"
• New Lumi Virtuale, Romanian e-zine with English content
Thu 10.09 —
• The Infinite Matrix: reactions to California's new governor: The Cyborgs Are in Charge
Thu 10.02 —
• October Ansible
Wed 10.01 —
Latest E-Publications—
• Emerald City: long Torcon report and analysis
• October scifidimensions: Jeff VanderMeer, Neal Stephenson, alternative sexuality
• October SF Site: reviews of Grimwood, Waldrop, etc.
• SF Weekly: Michael Cassut asks Goodbye, Sci-Fi?
• September SFRevu: Torcon pics; Sharon Lee & Steve Miller interview
• October SF Crowsnest: Ken MacLeod commentary; interviews with Laurell K. Hamilton, Juliet E. McKenna
• Strange Horizons: Nicola Griffith interview
• Tangent Online: Dave Truesdale to close down, according to SF Site News 23 Sept
Sun 09.28 —
• Ellen Datlow's photos from ReaderCon
Wed 09.24 —
• Ken MacLeod defines SF: "what SF is fundamentally about is not the Individual versus Society, or Society versus Society, but humanity in the universe"
• Jonathan Strahan's new site reviews the latest by Lucius Shepard
Thu 09.18 —
• Ellen Datlow's photos from July and August KGB readings (with Delany, O'Leary, Rucker, Malzberg)
Sat 09.13 —
• Most of Cory Doctorow's new collection A Place So Foreign and 8 More available free online
Fri 09.12 —
• William Gibson's blog gives way to novel writing
Thu 09.11 —
• September Ansible
• Jonathan Strahan's latest short fiction review of John Kessel's forthcoming "It's All True"
Thu 09.04 —
• Torcon3 photos from Cory Doctorow, Scott Edelman, Midamerican Fan Photo Archive, and SF Canada
• SFRevu: David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer's Space Opera Redefined
• Claude Lalumière launches Lost Pages
• Gabe Chouinard changes gears
Tue 08.26 —
• SF Weekly's Hugo Awards Poll has been ballot-stuffed [update 09.02: 3 of 14 Hugo/Campbell results correctly predicted]
• Salon: Cory Doctorow short story Truncat
Mon 08.25 —
• The Infinite Matrix: Bruce Sterling retires his blog
Mon 08.18 —
• Fantastic Metropolis: Jeff VanderMeer's The Physicality of Books: A Survey
Thu 07.31 —
• Science Fiction Weekly's annual Hugo Awards Poll
Tue 07.29 —
• RevolutionSF: critics react to Claude Lalumière's Superhero movie ratings
Fri 07.25 —
• Ellen Datlow's photos from the Stoker Awards
Thu 07.17 — Epubs
• Sci Fiction: stories by Nathan Ballingrud, Mark Clifton
• SF Site, mid-July: interview with John Picacio, lots of book and movie reviews
• Infinite Matrix: Clarion update
Mon 07.14 — Epubs
• SF Weekly: John Clute takes Margaret Atwood to task; plus Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom interviews; reviews of John Ridley and Adam Roberts
• Strange Horizons : fiction by Catherine Dybiec Holm; article on orbital railroads; gallery of Jacob Wenzka art; etc.
• Infinite Matrix Latest Clarion Update from Eileen Gunn and Maureen F. McHugh
• Fantastic Metropolis: new Bayley-Moorcock Letters; reprints from Theodore Goss, Liz Henry
Tue 06.24 —
• Chris Lawson's blog: Atwood's three-book sale not western, romance, or horror
Wed 06.18 —
Other SFFH 'zines —
• SF Weekly —
• John Clute reviews Dan Simmons
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro interviewed
• Strange Horizons —
• Steven Francis Murphy reviews Alastair Reynolds
• Cheryl Morgan interviews M. John Harrison
• Poetry by Bruce Boston
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Ellen Datlow's photos from KGB, May 21
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— New Links —
Sun 12.14 —
» Ellen Datlow's World Fantasy Con photos
Fri 12.12 —
• The Internet Review of Science Fiction announces January 2004 debut; guidelines
• L.W. Currey has several new catalogs of 19th and 20th century SF
Tue 12.09 —
• New link: small press publisher Earthling Publications
Sun 12.07 —
• John Varley has a new website
• Ellen Datlow's photos from KGB reading by Gregory Maguire & Jeff VanderMeer
Wed 11.26 —
• Hellboy website has trailers (opens 4.2.04)
• Small press launch for P.J. Fischer novel includes video trailer
• Ellen Datlow's photos from KGB reading by Peter Straub & Stewart O'Nan
• New Link: Alder Hill, a fantasy community and chatroom
Tue 11.25 —
• Ellen Datlow's photos from Torcon 3 and photos from Sept. 17 KGB reading by Theodora Goss and James Patrick Kelly
Fri 11.14 —
• New Link for The Science Fiction Poetry Association
• Cold Tonnage Books' November catalogue
Wed 11.12 —
• Interesting Links: Science Fiction/Fantasy Authors of Various Faiths
• Another book search site, ChooseBooks
• New link for The Southeastern Science Fiction Achievement Award
• And for Forbidden Planet bookstore in London
• Coming Soon: The Complete Twilight Zone Scripts of Rod Serling from Gauntlet Press
Thu 10.23 —
• New Link: Hill House publisher of limited editions of Gaiman, Stephenson
• philipKdick.com to become 'official' PKD site: Press release
Mon 10.20 —
• Paula Guran's forthcoming Word Book
A few new Links—
• ChooseBooks: Over 6 million books from 985 book sellers
• Jael
• Le Zombie
• Audible.com
• Astounding Science Fiction tribute site
Fri 10.10 —
• October catalog from Cold Tonnage Books (UK)
Wed 10.01 —
Assorted New Links—
• Bas-Lag a China Mieville message board
• Fusing Horizons dark fiction for imaginative readers
• The Limbonaut Lovecraft ezine
• Lissner's Adventure Fiction Online
[beware pop-up windows]
• Queer Horror
• Rambles a cultural arts ezine
• Ultraverse ezine now accepting submissions
• Via Galactica Croatian webzine with English content (updated URLs)
• Zahir a journal of speculative fiction
artists and writers:
• Judith Clute
• Jon Foster
• Donato Giancola
• Nalo Hopkinson blog
• Stephan Martiniere
• Zoran Zivkovic
Tue 09.02 —
• Latest Cold Tonnage catalog (single page view, big file)
Thu 08.07 —
• Neil Barron writes: A 5th edition of ANATOMY OF WONDER, the standard critical guide to SF, is in preparation. I'd welcome suggestions for improvement, sent to
writeneil@att.net.
Mon 08.04 —
• USA Today hosts live online chat with Terry Goodkind tomorrow, Tuesday 08.05 -- submit questions
• New website, www.stanleebook.com,
about Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book
Thu 07.24 —
• Spider-Man 2 site live
• New White Dwarf catalog
• New Dune novel Bookwrap
• Emma Bull's Summer Queen's speech
Assorted new Links —
• Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine
• Better Humans
• Fantastic Literature
• Green Man Review
• Ursula K. Le Guin
• Magrathea
• Moo Press
• Phantazm
• Project Pulp
• Science News for Kids
• Word Magic
Mon 07.21 —
• Cold Tonnage Books (UK mail order) June catalog
Mon 06.16—
• Artist Links
• Chris Moore illustration
• Kenn Brown - Image of the week
—06.12—
a few new links...
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Fantastic Literature (rare/OOP SF)
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Whispers of Wickedness
Dark atmospheric art and fiction
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Agent Research
—06.11—
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L.W. Curry's May 2003 catalog [pdf] [big file; slow load]
—06.10—
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New websites:
Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver
Kenji Siratori
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