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» NY Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2010 includes fiction titles by Charles Yu, Ian McEwan, Gary Shteyngart, David Mitchell, and Jennifer Egan; Michiko Kakutani's Top 10 Books of 2010 include the novels by Gary Shteyngart and David Mitchell
» Oprah Magazine's top ten books includes the novels by Jennifer Egan and Gary Shteyngart » Publishers Weekly talks with Jo Walton Sat 27 Nov 10 —
» News: Jo Fletcher leaves Gollancz to start a new imprint at Quercus Books, Jo Fletcher Books
» Awards news: Romanian SF&F Awards Announced; Cybils Awards nominations (for children's and young adult books); Nova Awards (for fanzines) » Lawrence Person reviews Charles Stross' The Fuller Memorandum Fri 26 Nov 10 —
» Black Gate interviews Gene Wolfe
» Guardian Books Podcasts asks, Is science fiction the only way of grappling with the modern world? » Fantastic Literature's Bumper Christmas Booklist is online » Note our cool new visitor flag counter at the bottom of this page Wed 24 Nov 10 —
» John Joseph Adams seeks recommendations of Cthulhu Mythos stories for anthology The Book of Cthulhu
» Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews William Peter Blatty's Crazy Tue 23 Nov 10 —
» NY Times profiles Anne R. Dick, author of just-re-released The Search for Philip K. Dick
» The Science Fiction Oral History Association launches its Space Dog Podcast with a 1976 discussion with Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Lester del Rey, Frederik Pohl, and Gordon R. Dickson » NY Times: Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Opens in Indianapolis » Salem-News: Kourosh Ziabari interviews Adam Roberts, who explains why "Science Fiction is the most Powerful and Imaginative Mode of Writing" » Guardian: Roz Kaveney explains why Antimatter? Not such a big deal » Angry Robot has launched its digital short story store » Denver Post: Dorman T. Shindler reviews Connie Willis' All Clear » B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Galen Beckett, Patricia McKillip, Robin McKinley » Ellen Datlow's photos from November 17th KGB reading Fri 19 Nov 10 —
» Library Journal's Best Books: 2010 names SF/Fantasy titles by James Barclay, Todd McCaffrey, China Miéville, Mark Charan Newton, and Skyler White
» Amazon's Omnivoracious highlights Hiromi Goto's Half World » From Bar to Bar interviews Ekaterina Sedia » Norman Spinrad is offering an e-book edition of Greenhouse Summer, his 1999 novel, for just $3 through Jan 1st '11 Wed 17 Nov 10 —
» Small Beer Press has invited several guest bloggers to celebrate the Fall; posts so far are by Karen Joy Fowler, Kathe Koja, and Vincent McCaffrey
» Ellen Datlow's photos from Neil Gaiman's birthday bash in New Orleans Mon 15 Nov 10 —
» The Agony Column interviews S.G. Browne and reviews his new novel Fated
» Guardian: Sam Jordison's "Back to the Hugos" considers Philip José Farmer's To Your Scattered Bodies Go Sun 14 Nov 10 —
» LA Times: long obituary of Glen H. GoodKnight
Thu 11 Nov 10 —
» New Scientist's Clare Wilson reviews Iain M. Banks' Surface Detail
Wed 10 Nov 10 —
» BBC Woman's Hour: Margaret Atwood is interviewed about The Handmaid's Tale [via]
» SFWA notes the passing of Glenn Lewis Gillette » The Agony Column interviews Kevin Kelly and reviews What Technology Wants » ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) interviews Jeff VanderMeer Tue 9 Nov 10 —
» Guardian talks with Hannu Rajamiemi
» Guardian: Neil Gaiman reviews Stephen King's Full Dark, No Stars Mon 8 Nov 10 —
» Amazon.com has awarded a $15,000 grant to the Shared Worlds Teen Writing Camp at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina
» More Best of 2010 lists: Amazon UK's SF & Fantasy; Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2010, with SF titles on page 3 (scroll down); PW blogger Rose Fox lists her runners-up » Publishers Weekly profiles Tor.com » Pyr-o-mania: Gillian Polack sits down with Enge, Shepherd & Kenyon » The Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop offers three Online Writing Classes, beginning in January » The German Conference on the Fantastic hosts an hour audiovideo of Paul Di Filippo reading his latest fiction Sun 7 Nov 10 —
» The KGB Fantastic Fiction Raffle was a huge success
» Independent: Doug Johnstone reviews Iain M. Banks' Surface Detail » New webzines; Angle Mort | Éclats d'imaginaire; "international sf" Inter Nova » PLoS Blogs has Steve Silberman's Tripping Cyborgs and Organ Farms: The Fictions of Cordwainer Smith Sat 6 Nov 10 —
» File 770 reports the death of Glen GoodKnight, founder of the Mythopoeic Society
» Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Laurence Cossé's A Novel Bookstore » The Carl Brandon Society is holding a Octavia E. Butler Memorial Scholarship Fund eReader Drawing through November 22nd Thu 4 Nov 10 —
» Amazon.com's Editors' Picks: Top 100 Books of 2010 include titles by Justin Cronin, Charles Yu, Stephen King, Jennifer Egan, Gary Shteyngart, David Mitchell, Brandon Sanderson, Charlaine Harris, and Joe Hill; customer favorites (i.e. bestsellers) put Suzanne Collins, Charlaine Harris, and Stephenie Meyer in the top 10
» Jeff VanderMeer blogs about Amazon's Top 10 SF & Fantasy Books of 2010, here (#1 to #5) and here (#6 to #10) » Locus Online recounts World Fantasy Con Panels Wed 3 Nov 10 —
» Dave Langford's Ansible 280
» Washington Post: Scientists nominate "lost sci-fi classics" that include works by Holland, Lem, Womack, Galouye, Sheckley, Zamiatin, Stapledon, Gunn, and Stewart » Barnes & Noble: Paul Di Filippo reviews The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction » From Bar to Bar interviews Mark Charan Newton » Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, asked its membership of research scientists and engineers Did Science Fiction Influence You? (PDF) » The Agony Column podcasts an interview with Graham Hancock and reviews his novel Entangled; also, interview with Charles Burns and review of X'ed Out » Fantastic Literature's November booklist is online Tue 2 Nov 10 —
» Washington Post Book World: Bill Sheehan reviews Stephen King's Full Dark, No Stars; also, Yvonne Sipp reviews five books on zombies, and Michael Sims selects three books on Dracula
» Los Angeles Times: Ed Park's "Astral Weeks" online column reviews Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others |
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November 2010 Posts: Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late NovemberTuesday 30 November 2010 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from e-zines Fantasy, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tor.com, and Subterranean
December Issue Table of ContentsMonday 29 November 2010 | Magazine
December features interviews with Nancy Kress and Robert V.S. Redick, reports from this year's World Fantasy Convention, lists of forthcoming books through September 2011, and reviews of short fiction and books by Gene Wolfe, Catherynne M. Valente, Larry Niven, Anne Rice, and others, plus Graham Sleight's "Yesterday's Tomorrows" on John Wyndham
Magazines & Websites: fourth week NovemberSunday 28 November 2010 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of Adventures in SciFi Publishing, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Strange Horizons; and what's new at sites io9, SF Signal, Tangent, and Tor.com
Classic Reprints: November 2010Saturday 27 November 2010 | Monitor, Directories
A new edition of Fritz Leiber's Our Lady of Darkness plus collections of Poul Anderson, Clark Ashton Smith, and Lovecraftian tales of Yith
Spotlight on Frank Wu, ArtistFriday 26 November 2010 | Magazine; Perspectives
Some people find shameless self-promotion distasteful, but I've always had fun at it. Maybe I'm overcompensating because I was never popular in high school. I was always drawing weird things and talking about weird nerdy stuff no one cared about. But now... I get invited to be Artist Guest of Honor at conventions for exactly the same behavior!
Spotlight on Mur Lafferty, PodcasterThursday 25 November 2010 | Magazine; Perspectives
With audio, most people do it while driving cars, or exercising, or cleaning. We know stories need a good hook, and shouldn't drag to lose the reader, but in audio those rules are even more important.
New Books : third week NovemberWednesday 24 November 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Greg Bear's Hull Zero Three, John Freeman's Sci-Fi Art Now, Paula Guran's Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Martin & Dozois' Songs of Love and Death, Salman Rushdie's Luka and the Fire of Life, and other titles by de Bodard, Harvey, Pelegrimas, Petrucha, Price, Rabe & Greenberg, Remic, Roberson, Shepherd, Snyder, and Waggoner
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 23 November 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Stephen King's Full Dark, No Stars debuts strongly on print lists, ranking #2 on 2 lists; Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson's Towers of Midnight slips only a bit, still ranking #4 on 4 lists.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Greg BearMonday 22 November 2010 | Reviews; Magazine; 2010 Posts
From Locus Magazine's November issue
The main strength of Hull Zero Three, at least for veteran hard SF readers, lies in the ingenious manner in which Bear has constructed these through-the-looking-glass puzzles, and in which he eventually unpacks them... Magazines & Websites: third week NovemberSunday 21 November 2010 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of print 'zines Interzone, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, On Spec, and Science Fiction Studies; and what's new at sites io9, SF Signal, SF Site, Tangent, and Tor.com
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-NovemberSaturday 20 November 2010 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers' Postscripts 22/23: The Company He Keeps and Jonathan Strahan's Godlike Machines, and of Gregory Feeley's novella Kentaurus
New in Paperback: NovemberFriday 19 November 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Paolo Bacigalupi's Pump Six and Other Stories, Anne R. Dick's The Search for Philip K. Dick, Ekaterina Sedia's The Secret History of Moscow, and other titles by Boyett, Brown, de Lint, Holland, Kerr, Marillier, Niven & Lerner, Ringo, Taylor, Turtledove, and Williams
Greg van Eekhout: Story GrenadesThursday 18 November 2010 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's November Issue interview.
Splatterpunk writers can be mature artists, but I was not approaching it with any maturity or artistry whatsoever... I eventually got bored with reading that stuff, so I didn’t want to write it anymore. New Books : second week NovemberWednesday 17 November 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Stephen King's Full Dark, No Stars, James Enge's The Wolf Age, Pamela Sargent's Seed Seeker, Robin McKinley's Pegasus, and titles by Ballantine, Destefano, Jordan & Sanderson, Modesitt, Rardin, Saintcrow, and Whates
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 16 November 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson's Towers of Midnight is #1 at New York Times; a new novel by Patricia Briggs also debuts this week
SkylineMonday 15 November 2010 | Reviews
We have a slightly split opinion. Howard only thinks it sucks a little. Lawrence thinks it sucks a whole lot more.
Magazines & Websites: second week NovemberSunday 14 November 2010 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of print 'zines Analog, Asimov's, Andromeda Spaceways, and Jupiter; electronic 'zines Three-lobed Burning Eye and Strange Horizons, and highlights from daily sites io9, The Portal, SF Signal, Tangent, and Tor.com
Spotlight on Lynne M. Thomas, ArchivistSaturday 13 November 2010 | Magazine; Perspectives
The biggest change in our field in the past 30 years is the growing amount of electronic documentation in addition to paper materials. To completely document the genre, libraries like mine are now actively working to preserve both formats as part of their mission.
New Books : first week NovemberFriday 12 November 2010 | Monitor, Directories
N.K. Jemisin's The Broken Kingdoms, Catherynne M. Valente's The Habitation of the Blessed, Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson's Towers of Midnight, Jack McDevitt's Echo, Pierre Pevel's The Cardinal's Blades, and other titles by Aaron, Ahern & Ahern, Cook, Kent, Lee, Monk, Oliver, Scholes, and White
Locus Magazine Bestsellers, NovemberThursday 11 November 2010 | Magazine; 2010 Posts
Locus Magazine Bestsellers are led by Brent Weeks' The Black Prism, Terry Prachett's Unseen Academicals, Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl, Sean Williams' Star Wars: The Old Republic: Fatal Alliance, and James Swallow's Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy: Nemesis.
Mercedes Lackey: Making FunWednesday 10 November 2010 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's November Issue interview.
Publishers really don't want a difficult writer who writes brilliant books. Publishers really like a good writer who writes good books and doesn't have any problem with being a prima donna. This Week's BestsellersTuesday 9 November 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Jim Butcher's Side Jobs debuts in hardcover; Karen Marie Moning's Dreamfever debuts in paperback.
Tim Pratt reviews James EngeMonday 8 November 2010 | Reviews; Magazine; 2010 Posts
From Locus Magazine's November issue
The Wolf Age is the third book in James Enge's inventive and delightful sword and sorcery series following the adventures and misfortunes of larger-than-life hero Morlock Ambrosius. Magazines & Websites: first week NovemberSunday 7 November 2010 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of print 'zines Weird Tales and the SFWA Bulletin, electronic 'zines Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Fantasy, Lightspeed, Quantum Muse, Redstone SF, Salon Futura, SF Site, Strange Horizons, and Subterranean, and highlights from daily sites io9, SF Signal, Tangent, and Tor.com
New Books : last week OctoberSaturday 6 November 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Iain M. Banks' Surface Detail, Richard Kadrey's Kill the Dead, Ann VanderMeer & Jeff VanderMeer's Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded, and other titles by Butcher, del Toro & Hogan, Gilman, Hendee, Kearney, Kiernan, Lima, Navarro, Palmer, Stackpole, Weber, Wells, Wilson, and Zajac.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early NovemberFriday 5 November 2010 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online—
Reviews of stories from a special Muslim and Arab writers issue of Apex Magazine and from new issues of Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, and Shimmer Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, NovemberThursday 4 November 2010 | Magazine; 2010 Posts
November New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, Greg Egan's Zendegi, William Gibson's Zero History, Patrick Ness' Monsters and Men, and other titles by Bernheimer, Bernobich, Black & Larbalestier, Fowler, Gilman, Hodder, Kadrey, Niffenegger, Priest, Resnick, Smith, Sturgeon, and Westerfeld.
Cory Doctorow: A Cosmopolitan Literature for the Cosmopolitan WebWednesday 3 November 2010 | Magazine; Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's November Issue.
For me, to be cosmopolitan is to live your life by the ancient science fictional maxims: "All laws are local" and "No law knows how local it is." This Week's BestsellersTuesday 2 November 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Brandon Sanderson & Robert Jordan's Towers of Midnight is #2 at Amazon.com; new books by Stephen R. Donaldson and Lois McMaster Bujold debut on print lists.
MonstersMonday 1 November 2010 | Reviews
Monsters isn't a good low-budget movie, it's simply a really good movie, period.
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