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— Gary Westfahl: Notes from a Mixed Marriage, Or, The Lady and the Monster
— Graham Sleight reviews Theodore Sturgeon — Russell Letson reviews Greg Egan    Tue 31 Aug 10 —
» Slate's Book Club dissects Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay
Mon 30 Aug 10 —
» More of Lawrence Person's photos from Armadillocon
» John Joseph Adams' site for The Living Dead 2 features eight free stories, plus 36 author interviews appearing daily beginning today; the book is available now Sun 29 Aug 10 —
» Locus Online attends this year's Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards Ceremony
Sat 28 Aug 10 —
» Lawrence Person is posting photos from Armadillocon
» Omnivoracious interviews Rose Fox, sf/f/h reviews editor for Publishers Weekly, while Jeff VanderMeeer reports from Shared Worlds, an sf/f writing camp for teen students » The Agony Column interviews Mary Roach and reviews Packing for Mars » Cosmos has free fiction Looking Good by Deborah Walker » Discovery News talks with Robert J. Sawyer at SETI-Con; meanwhile at Philosophy Now, Nick DiChario interviews Sawyer » Meteor House is posting excerpts from forthcoming book The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions Mon 23 Aug 10 —
» LA Times: Susan Carpenter reviews Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay (on sale tomorrow) - "Wow"; also, Ed Parks reviews Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Sun 22 Aug 10 —
» The New Gay interviews Hal Duncan
» BSCreview interviews Jane Lindskold, Alex Bledsoe, and Aaron Dembski-Bowden Fri 20 Aug 10 —
» The Agony Column interviews Gary Shteyngart and reviews Super Sad True Love Story
» Daily Mail: Harry Ritchie reviews Stephenie Meyer, Justin Cronin, Charlaine Harris » South Africa Mail & Guardian Online: Gwen Ansell reviews Mark Chadbourn, Jacqueline Carey, KJ Parker » Ellen Datlow's photos from KGB reading on August 18 with Laura Anne Gilman and Mary Robinette Kowal Mon 16 Aug 10 —
» Omnivoracious Reports from Clarion San Diego: Great Writing, Purple Dye, Water Gun Battles, and Book Recs
» Orbit Books has built a Chart of Fantasy Art, comparing elements in fantasy cover art from 2008 to 2009 Thu 12 Aug 10 —
» Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews William H. Patterson, Jr.'s Robert A. Heinlein biography, due from Tor August 17th
Wed 11 Aug 10 —
» Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Larry Doyle, Meg Cabot, Amelia Beamer
» Strange Horizons: John Clute reviews Hannu Rajaniemi's "brilliant first novel" The Quantum Thief » Alt Hist is a new online magazine of historical fiction and alternate history » The Berkeley Daily Planet profiles The Other Change of Hobbit bookstore, recently relocated » B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Mary Roach's Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void Tue 10 Aug 10 —
» The Agony Column interviews David Mitchell and reviews The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
Mon 9 Aug 10 —
» Slate: Laura Shapiro reviews Shirley Jackson
» The Agony Column interviews Tim Powers Sun 8 Aug 10 —
» Boston Globe: interview with J.C. Hallman, author of a book about utopias; also, Ethan Gilsdorf reviews Rick Moody's The Four Fingers of Death
» NY Times: Alan Dean Foster has an op-ed, Garden Variety Javelinas, about Arizona's new immigration law Sat 7 Aug 10 —
» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Amelia Beamer, China Miéville, Matt Kindt
» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Rob Scott, Charles Stross, Rhys Thomas, Scott Sigler » NY Times: Michael Wood reviews Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story; Clancy Martin reviews Rick Moody's The Four Fingers of Death » Amazon's Best Books of 2010... So Far includes Justin Cronin's The Passage Fri 6 Aug 10 —
» Norman Spinrad blogs about The Publishing Death Spiral - Part One and Part Two
» NPR: Nancy Pearl's Under the Radar Reads includes Guy Gavriel Kay's Under Heaven » Orion Magazine: Christopher Cokinos on Instead of Suns, the Earth: Another kind of science fiction » The Rejectionist interviews Elizabeth Hand » Adventures in SciFi Publishing has numerous interviews and articles from Comic-Con, from Matthew Sturges, Ann VanderMeer, John Picacio, Brandon Sanderson, Lou Anders, Brent Weeks, Paul Cornell, and others Tue 3 Aug 10 —
» Lightspeed launches its August issue today
» Apex Magazine posts its first issue with new fiction editor Catherynne M. Valente » BSCreview: Hal Duncan's column The Combat Fiction Bar & Grill » NY Times: Paul Krugman's column Increasing Returns And Economic Areography quotes and links Charles Stross Mon 2 Aug 10 —
» CNN profiles Ray Bradbury, on occasion of his 90th birthday; he "watches Fox News Channel by day, Turner Classic Movies by night. He spends the rest of his time summoning 'the monsters and angels' of his imagination for his enchanting tales"
» Publishers Weekly: Cory Doctorow's column, Doctorow's First Law; Genreville: Mark Van Name donating proceeds of next novel to charity » Slate: Terrence Rafferty reviews Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story » Dave Langford's Ansible 277 » The Agony Column interviews Justin Cronin » August SF Site features Alexei Panshin Sun 1 Aug 10 —
» Washington Post: Ron Charles reviews Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story - "a slit-your-wrist satire illuminated by the author's absurd wit"
» SF Chronicle: Alan Cheuse reviews Rick Moody's The Four Fingers of Death - an "homage to and pastiche of the work of Vonnegut" |
 August 2010 Posts:
  
August 2010 Posts: This Week's BestsellersTuesday 31 August 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay still ranks #1 at Amazon.com; six genre-related titles rank on LA Times' fiction hardcover list
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late AugustMonday 30 August 2010 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online—
Reviews of Frederik Pohl tribute anthology Gateways, plus stories from Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, Tor.com, and Subterranean New Books : fourth week AugustSunday 29 August 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Ted Chiang's The Lifecycle of Software Objects, Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay, and other titles by Terry Brooks, Bob Fingerman, Cameron Haley, Charlaine Harris & Toni L.P. Kelner, Mike Resnick, Sandy Sampson, and Brent Weeks
Magazines & Websites: fourth week AugustSaturday 28 August 2010 | Monitor; Directories
io9 launches "SF 101: Science Fiction for Beginners", Tor.com has new fiction by Jay Lake and interviews by "The Rejectionist", SF Signal asks about favorite SF/fantasy settings, plus more fiction, reviews, and nonfiction at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Ted ChiangFriday 27 August 2010 | Reviews; Magazine; 2010 Posts
From Locus Magazine's August issue
Conceptually, The Lifecycle of Software Objects may seem understated compared to the intellectual bottle rocket of a story like "Exhalation", but it joins "Story of Your Life" and a handful of other tales which remind us that Chiang can write as movingly about characters as about ideas. Classic Reprints: August 2010Thursday 26 August 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Classic SF and fantasy in new editions this month include a new collection of stories by Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore, anthologies of stories about devils and other-dimensional entities from Tim Pratt and Robert M. Price, a volume of H.G. Wells from Everyman Library, and novels by Greg Bear, Charles de Lint, and Michael Moorcock.
Spotlight on Charlie Jane AndersWednesday 25 August 2010 | Magazine; Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's August Issue
If you see Writers With Drinks, do not attempt to photograph it — camera flashes tend to make it shape-shift — much less detain it. The Locus Index to Science Fiction AwardsTuesday 24 August 2010 | Resources
Latest updates: World Fantasy and Ditmar nominations; Chesley and Sidewise winners; covers images of book winners on listings pages
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 24 August 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay, published today, is #1 at Amazon.com
Notes from a Mixed Marriage, Or, The Lady and the MonsterMonday 23 August 2010 | Perspectives
An essay by Gary Westfahl
Our relationship matches no conventional definition of a "mixed marriage." But if I add that I have been devoted to science fiction for my entire life, while my wife has never had any interest at all in science fiction, then some people will understand exactly what I am talking about. New Books : third week AugustSunday 22 August 2010 | Monitor, Directories
William H. Patterson, Jr.'s Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Rick Moody's The Four Fingers of Death, a first novel by Anthony Huso, a novel to benefit child soldiers by Mark L. Van Name, and other titles by Axler, Chadbourn, Finch, Kane, Monk, Norman, Reeve, Renier, Resnick, Shears, and Smith-Ready
Faren Miller reviews Alaya Dawn JohnsonSaturday 21 August 2010 | Reviews; Magazine; 2010 Posts
From Locus Magazine's August issue
At this midpoint the Spirit Binders trilogy has a style all its own: unflinching, sophisticated, imaginative enough to please (and jolt and challenge) even jaded adults. Magazines & Websites: third week AugustFriday 20 August 2010 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Static, Lightspeed, SF Site, and Strange Horizons, plus notable posts at io9, SF Signal, and Tor.com
Graham Sleight's Yesterdays Tomorrows: Theodore SturgeonThursday 19 August 2010 | Reviews; Magazine; 2010 Posts
From the August 2010 issue of Locus Magazine
If Sturgeon is valued for any one thing in the SF community, it's for finding ways to tell stories that reach out emotionally beyond the props and tropes of the genre. N.K. Jemisin: Rites of PassageWednesday 18 August 2010 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview.
The way we write traditional epic fantasy now is making the whole genre look bad. I think what they're saying is that the genre has become so formulaic that it's almost stagnant. There's no reason for medieval Europe-based fantasies to be as boring as they are. This Week's BestsellersTuesday 17 August 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Paranormal romance anthology Death's Excellent Vacation debuts on two fiction hardcover lists; Pittacus Lore's I Am Number Four debuts; Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay is #1 at Amazon.com
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid AugustMonday 16 August 2010 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online—
Reviews of stories from new issues Nick Gevers & Marty Halpern's anthology Is Anybody Out There? and new issues of F&SF, Albedo One, and Intergalactic Medicine Show New Books : second week AugustSunday 15 August 2010 | Monitor, Directories
The Best of Kim Stanley Robinson, Lisa Mantchev's Perchance to Dream, and other titles by Carroll, Drake, Duane, Gibson, Liu, Lloyd, Millar, Richardson, Thomas, Viehl, and Williamson
New in Paperback: early AugustSaturday 14 August 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood, Patrick Ness' The Ask and the Answer, and titles by Armstrong, Bova, Drake, Golemon, Herbert & Anderson, Lackey & Mallory, Lerner, and Richardson
Magazines & Websites: second week AugustFriday 13 August 2010 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of Analog, Apex, the SFWA Bulletin, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Jupiter, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, On Spec, Strange Horizons and Vector, plus notable posts online at io9 and Tor.com
Patrick Rothfuss: WorldbuilderThursday 12 August 2010 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview.
People talk about the trunk novel, writing 10 novels before the 11th or 12th gets published. For me it was just the one book. I worked on this one book for the same amount of time that other writers worked on 11. Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, AugustWednesday 11 August 2010 | Magazine; 2010 Posts
August New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include novels by Amelia Beamer, Jay Lake, Ian McDonald, China Miéville, Naomi Novik, Nnedi Okorafor, and Alastair Reynolds, plus collections and anthologies from Abraham, Datlow & Windling, Dozois, Gevers & Halpern, and Strahan & Anders.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 10 August 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Titles debuting this week include Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story, Kelley Armstrong's Waking the Witch, Todd McCaffrey's Dragongirl, and China Miéville's Kraken.
Russell Letson reviews Greg Egan's ZendegiMonday 9 August 2010 | Reviews; Magazine; 2010 Posts
From Locus Magazine's August issue
This book satisfies the claims that SF has to being an art form as fully engaged with the worlds of the family and the community as it is with those of the laboratory, the machine shop, the space habitat, or the computational environment. New Books : first week AugustSunday 8 August 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Greg Egan's Zendegi, Harry Harrison's The Stainless Steel Rat Returns, Pittacus Lore's I Am Number Four, L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Imager's Intrigue, a first novel by Trent Jamieson, second novels in series by Chadbourn, Daniells, Del Franco, Glass, Mann, Meding, Rowley, and Swann, and other series novels by Golden & Lebbon, Mead, Moore, and Somers.
Locus Magazine Bestsellers, AugustSaturday 7 August 2010 | Magazine; 2010 Posts
Locus Magazine Bestsellers are led by Jim Butcher's Changes, Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet: Victorious, Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl, Aaron Allston's Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Outcast, and Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman's Dragons of the Hourglass Mage
Magazines & Websites: first week AugustFriday 6 August 2010 | Monitor; Directories
What's new at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Flagship, io9, Lightspeed, Redstone SF, Reflection's Edge, SF Signal, SF Site, SFRevu, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early AugustThursday 5 August 2010 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online—
Reviews of stories from new issues of Asimov's, Analog, Clarkesworld, Apex, Abyss & Apex, and Tor.com The Locus Index to Science Fiction AwardsWednesday 4 August 2010 | Resources
The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards is now updated with nominations and winners announced so far this year, including the first posting of the complete 2010 Locus Poll results.
Gardner Dozois reviews GatewaysWednesday 4 August 2010 | Reviews; Magazine; 2010 Posts
A sample review from Locus Magazine
A festschrift (as we intellectuals call it) or tribute anthology (as the rest of you can call it) honoring Frederik Pohl's work. This is a substantial anthology, good value for the money, 17 stories from top authors... This Week's BestsellersTuesday 3 August 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Sean Williams' Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance debuts on hardcover fiction bestseller lists this week.
August Issue Table of ContentsMonday 2 August 2010 | Magazine
The August issue has interviews with Patrick Rothfuss and N.K. Jemisin, complete results of this year's Locus Survey, reports on awards and conventions, and reviews of short fiction and books by Gardner Dozois, Terry Dowling, Greg Egan, A. Lee Martinez, Laird Barron, and many others, plus Graham Sleight's "Yesterday's Tomorrows" column on Theodore Sturgeon
New in Paperback: late JulySunday 1 August 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, Warren Fahy's Fragment, and titles by Birmingham, Di Filippo, Howard, Knight, O'Neal, and Twelve Hawks
Earlier posts: July | June |
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