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7 - 13 Mar
Author Events
Gavin Grant, Kelly Link, Jane Yolen...
Conventions
» International Conference on SF -Nice, France
» Istrakon -Croatia
» Stellarcon -Greensboro NC
» Dort.com -Germany
Announcements
March - December '05
Forthcoming Books
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Tue 8 Mar 05 —
» David Langford's Ansible 212
» The Agony Column: Rick Kleffel reviews and interviews Steve Erickson
Mon 7 Mar 05 —
» This week's SF Weekly has an interview with Ian R. MacLeod and Wil McCarthy's Lab Notes column about safe nukes
» This week's Strange Horizons has an interview with John Scalzi, fiction by Liz Williams, and a SF-is-dead column by Matthew Cheney
» New issues of SFRevu and Ultraverse are available
» CBC Archives: 1967 TV documentary about Toronto hippie-haven Yorkville features interview with a young Bill Gibson
» New: Forbidden Planet International Blog Logs
Sat 5 Mar 05 —
» Ellen Datlow has posted the table of contents to Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Volume 18, edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, and Gavin Grant
» Gardner Dozois posted the table of contents to Year's Best Science Fiction Volume 22 back in February
Fri 4 Mar 05 —
» Portales News-Tribune: report from the Jack Williamson Lectureship
» Kathryn Cramer has posted the table of contents to Year's Best SF 10, edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer
» Futurismic: fiction by Donnárd Ricardo Sturgis, Strike a Pose
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Tue 1 Mar 05 —
» New SF imprint Pyr
» SF Site for March has Readers' Choice Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2004
» Cheryl Morgan's Emerald City #114 has Hugo picks, reviews, an interview, etc.
» Aeon Speculative Fiction's second issue, with fiction by Howard V. Hendrix, Bruce Holland Rogers, Gary W. Shockley, and others, is available for download
» Internet Review of Science Fiction's new editor-in-chief is Joy Ralph, beginning with the March issue, just posted, with contributions from Lavie Tidhar, Jay Lake, Lezlie Kinyon, Lisa Agnew, Dotar Sojat, and others
» Deep Magic's March issue is available for download
» Fantastic Literature's March 2005 booklist is now online
» San Francisco Chronicle: Alan Cheuse reviews H.P. Lovecraft
Mon 28 Feb 05 —
» Infinity Plus: Adam Roberts reviews novels on the Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist
» Weekly Standard: Michael Dirda reviews Lovecraft's Tales
» Unitarian Universalist World Bookshelf: Will Shetterly on Speculation and revelation
» Denver Post: Fred Cleaver reviews Steve Cash, C.J. Cherryh
» Miami Herald: Robert Folsom reviews Robert Metzger, Justina Robson
Wed 23 Feb 05 —
» NY Times: profile of Francesca Lia Block
» The Agony Column: Rick Kleffel comments on the splitting of long novels into 2 or more volumes... (to which Patrick Nielsen Hayden responds); also, an exclusive story by Elizabeth Bear, Botticelli
» Fantastic Metropolis: Rick Klaw interviews Steve Aylett
Mon 21 Feb 05 —
» Kathryn Cramer & David Hartwell's photos from Boskone
Sat 19 Feb 05 —
» Washington Post: Paul Di Filippo reviews Steve Cash, John Scalzi, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Sean Murphy
Sat 19 Feb 05 —
» Scott Edelman's Antarctica Adventure
» Ellen Datlow's New Zealand Adventure
» NY Times: an introduction by the late Susan Sontag to a book by Halldor Laxness discusses SF
» New issue of The Broadsheet: newsletter for Broad Universe with Diana Pharaoh Francis, John Grant, Sheila Finch, Ken Rand interviewing Louise Marley, and others
» The 25th Anniversary Edition of Little, Big, by John Crowley will be published September, 2006, with art by Peter Milton and an introduction by Harold Bloom
» Green Man Review: Moira Russell reviews Elizabeth Bear's Hammered
» The Agony Column: Rick Kleffel reviews the Hill House version of Ray Bradbury's The Cat's Pajamas
Thu 17 Feb 05 —
» Salon: Andrew Leonard interviews Iain Banks
» NY Times: Sarah Boxer's article Literary Sport: The Roar of the Crowd, the Review of the Books cites Malzberg & Pronzini's Prose Bowl
Wed 16 Feb 05 —
» The Infinite Matrix: Cory Doctorow's I, Robot; Slashdot reaction
» Christian Science Monitor: Ron Charles reviews Graham Joyce
» LA Times: profile of Steve Erickson
Tue 15 Feb 05 —
» SF Site: Best SF and Fantasy Books of 2004: Editors' Choice; plus, Greg L. Johnson's Best of 2004
» Seattle Times: Ray Kurzweil aims to live forever
Sun 13 Feb 05 —
» Washington Post: Bill Sheehan reviews Steve Erickson's Our Ecstatic Days
» NY Times Book Review: Tobin Harshaw reviews William Nicholson's The Society of Others
» Rambles: Sarah Meador reviews Cox & Duncan's anthology Crossroads
Sat 12 Feb 05 —
» Salon: Laura Miller essay on H.P. Lovecraft, "American literature's greatest bad writer"
» Infinity Plus: Matthew Cheney interviews Holly Phillips; Phillips' story A Woman's Bones
» Ellen Datlow's Australian Adventure
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Tuesday 8 March 2005
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With only days left to nominate for this year's awards, rules for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer have been changed to expand the scope of 'professional publication' for purposes of establishing a writer's eligibility for the award, with the effect of increasing the number of writers eligible for nomination this year. Deadline for the Campbell and Hugo nominations is March 11.
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Campbell Rules, brief description
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Complete Rules
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Commentary by Cheryl Morgan
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Campbell Eligible Author Web Site
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Hugo & Campbell Nomination Ballot
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Monday 7 March 2005
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A high school student in Winchester, Kentucky, has been arrested on terrorism charges after writing a short story about zombies attacking a high school.
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Student Press Law Center
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Boing Boing post and comments
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Commentary by Jeff VanderMeer and by Matthew Cheney
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Monitor: What's In Other Magazines |
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Seen the second half of February: new issues of Chronicle, Dreams and Nightmares, and Realms of Fantasy
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Sunday 6 March 2005
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Monitor: New Books |
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Descriptions and links for new books seen the last week of February, including Volume 10 of Theodore Sturgeon's Complete Stories, J.G. Ballard's Quotes, Leena Krohn's Tainaron: Mail from Another City, and other books from James Gunn & Matthew Candelaria, Ben Jeapes, Michio Kaku, and John Ringo
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Monitor: Classic Reprints |
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New editions of Norman Spinrad's Bug Jack Barron, Gregory Benford last two 'Galactic Center' novels, John Shirley's In Darkness Waiting, Robert Silverberg's Star of Gypsies, E.E. Smith's Triplanetary, and Library of America's volume of H.P. Lovecraft
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Friday 4 March 2005
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Andre Norton has returned home under "hospice care"; details and comments at SF-Fandom
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Awards News |
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Judges for this year's World Fantasy Awards are Alis Rasmussen, Jeffrey Ford, Tim Lebbon, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, and Jessica Amanda Salmonson
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Wednesday 2 March 2005
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This year's Spectrum Awards for science fiction and fantasy art include Brom, Brad Holland, Grand Master H.R. Giger, and others
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Forthcoming Books |
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Selected titles scheduled for March through December 2005, from Locus Magazine's March 2005 issue
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Tuesday 1 March 2005
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Feature Essay:
Surprising Sci-Fi Soul Brothers: Robert A. Heinlein and Philip K. Dick
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When one considers the qualities that made those writers great, the qualities that distinguish the wondrous novels and stories written in the first two decades of their careers, one must conclude that they are, in fundamental ways, exactly the same sort of writer.
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Feature Essay:
Surprised by Stross by Russell Letson |
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Charles Stross is no one-trick, post-human, deep-space, nanotech pony, but one of those writers whose fundamental gift seems to be the application of analytical intelligence to a body of story possibilities.
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Announcements |
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The SF Museum hosts its first youth arts and writing contest, and hosts the Eaton Conference
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The SF Research Association calls for papers
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Nisi Shawl and Victoria Garcia teach a writing workshop
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Georgia Tech hosts a monstrous symposium
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A play by Martha Soukup opens in October
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Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers |
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Christopher Paolini, Garth Nix
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Thursday 24 February 2005
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Deaths |
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Polish fantasy artist Zdzislaw Beksinski was found murdered in his home in Warsaw on Tuesday, February 22, 2005. He was 75.
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Sonya Dorman [Hess], SF writer and poet, died February 14, 2005 in Taos, New Mexico, at the age of 80. Her stories, published in the 1960s and '70s, appeared in F&SF, Dangerous Visions, Orbit, and elsewhere, with "When I Was Miss Dow" (Galaxy 1966) included on the 1996 Retrospective Tiptree Award shortlist. Poem "Corruption of Metals" won a Rhysling Award in 1978.
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Locus Magazine: March Issue |
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Locus Magazine's March issue, mailing today to subscribers, has interviews with Clive Barker and Malcolm Edwards, forthcoming books listings through December 2005, reviews of 30 books and of short fiction, and much more
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Locus Magazine: Locus Bestsellers |
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Leaders on March issue's Bestseller List -- compiled from specialty stores -- are by Stephen R. Donaldson, Robin Hobb, Neal Stephenson, Sean Stewart, and R.A. Salvatore
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Locus Magazine: New & Notable Books |
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March's list includes books by Neil Barron, Gardner Dozois, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, H.P. Lovecraft, Bill Sheehan, Lisa Tuttle, and others
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Wednesday 23 February 2005
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Monitor: New Books |
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Descriptions and links for new books seen in mid-February, including Jonathan Strahan & Karen Haber's Science Fiction: The Best of 2004 and Fantasy: The Best of 2004, the first US edition of Iain M. Banks' The State of the Art, Clare Dudman's One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead, other anthologies from Mike Ashley & Eric Brown and T.K.F. Weisskopf, four manga, and other books by Isobelle Carmody, Mat Coward, Edward M. Lerner, Andrew Menard, William Nicholson, and Brad Strickland
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Tuesday 22 February 2005
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Seen the first half of February: new issues of Analog, Asimov's, Book of Dark Wisdom, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Neo-Opsis, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Star*Line, and True Review
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Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers |
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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Monday 21 February 2005
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Feature: John Joseph Adams Reviews Audiobooks |
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From Locus Magazine's December issue, reviews of recorded fiction by Eric Garcia, Terry Pratchett, Orson Scott Card, Isaac Asimov, and others, with links to audio excerpts
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Sunday 20 February 2005
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• SFWA has created a new Andre Norton Award for young adult novels, the first to be given in 2006, with the nomination process based on that for the Nebula Awards
• Kevin O'Donnell Jr. will receive the Service to SFWA Award at this year's Nebula Awards Weekend in Chicago
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Saturday 19 February 2005
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Anne McCaffrey has been named an SFWA Grand Master, the award to be presented at this year's Nebula Awards Weekend in Chicago
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Stanislaw Lem is among finalists for the first International Booker Prize, to be awarded biannually for an author's body of work, with a £60,000 cash award; others include Margaret Atwood, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Doris Lessing
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Obit |
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Independent: John Clute's obituary of Jack Chalker, who died February 11
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World Fantasy Awards judges for 2005 are Alis Rasmussen, Jeffrey Ford, Tim Lebbon, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, and Jessica Amanda Salmonson
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Amazing Stories for March 2005 has been released as a downloadable e-publication, free to subscribers, $3 to others
• The issue has fiction by Sarah A. Hoyt, Ben Bova, George Zebrowski, and Robert Sheckley
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Thursday 17 February 2005
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SF author F.M. Busby died today, 17 February 2005.
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Born 1921, he was author of over a dozen novels and collections, including the Rissa Kerguelen trilogy.
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Details at F.M Busby's Page
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Locus Magazine: Neil Gaiman Interview Excerpts |
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The power of being an author, the joy of it for me, is that if one wasn't an author one would be a really boring person filled with peculiar bits of trivia, the sort you meet in a bar saying 'Did you know that...?'
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Wednesday 16 February 2005
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Monitor: New Books |
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Descriptions and links for new books seen the first week of February, including Graham Joyce's The Limits of Enchantment, Steve Erickson's Our Ecstatic Days, Steven Erikson's Deadhouse Gates, other novels by Carol Berg, David B. Coe, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Gary Gibson, Simon R. Green, Kim Harrison, John Meaney, Robert Reed, and Sean Williams & Shane Dix;
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Tuesday 15 February 2005
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This year's Nebula Awards Final Ballot includes Lois McMaster Bujold, Cory Doctorow, Jack McDevitt, David Mitchell, Sean Stewart, and Gene Wolfe for best novel, plus nominees for novella, novelette, short story, and script
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Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers |
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J.D. Robb, Dean Koontz & Kevin J. Anderson
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