Blinks: Wilhelm, A.E. van Vogt Award, Bacigalupi, PKD, SF international

April 29, 2012September 6, 2017 admin

» Eugene OR Register-Guard profiles Kate Wilhelm: “Although she’s had her work published by most of the ‘Big Six publishers’, her books from now on will appear under the auspices of InfinityBox Press…”

» SF Signal: Winnipeg Science Fiction Association Announces Creation of the A.E. Van Vogt Award, the ‘AEVVA’, to “spotlight the best in Canadian Science Fiction Writing”

» The Verge: They make us this way: Paolo Bacigalupi’s ‘The Drowned Cities’ “stands out as one of the most brutal pieces of YA fiction in recent years”

» Globe and Mail: Philip K. Dick’s salesman as everyman

» Guardian: Is science fiction literature’s first international language?

Films

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Roundtable

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