Analog Science Fiction and Fact • Science fiction and nonfiction; published since 1930 (originally Astounding); edited by Stanley Schmidt • Format: Print • Frequency: Near-monthly (10 issues/year) • http://www.analogsf.com/
January/February 2013— Vol. 133 No. 1&2, $7.99, 192pp, cover art by David A. Hardy • This double issue has novellas by Rajnar Vajra and Edward M. Lerner, novelettes by Brad R. Torgerson, Robert Scherrer, Amy Thomson, and Kyle Kirkland, and
Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata (Orbit US Oct 2012)
The ninth SF novel in the Culture series focuses on a race ready to take the next step into the Sublime state – if certain religious conflicts can be resolved, a problem that sends investigators looking for the incredibly ancient individual who composed ‘‘The Hydrogen Sonata’’. ‘‘You can skip the philosophy and enjoy a long, complicated, entertainingly detailed, funny, smart
Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata (Orbit US Oct 2012)
The ninth SF novel in the Culture series focuses on a race ready to take the next step into the Sublime state – if certain religious conflicts can be resolved, a problem that sends investigators looking for the incredibly ancient individual who composed ‘‘The Hydrogen Sonata’’. ‘‘You can skip the philosophy and enjoy a long, complicated, entertainingly detailed, funny, smart
Again no digests, so here are the first of the month ezines and some other stuff I didn’t have time to fit into the column in October. The Good Story award goes to the Robert Reed novella.
Author Kevin O’Donnell, Jr., 61, died November 7, 2012 in Campbell CA of complications from cancer.
His first story was “The Hand Is Quicker” in Analog (1973), and he published more than 50 SF stories in the following 25 years, as well as mystery fiction and non-fiction articles. First SF novel Bander Snatch appeared in 1979, and he published 10 novels in all, notably four books in the Journeys of ...Read More
Read moreArtist David Grove, 72, died October 25, 2012 of emphysema at his home in San Francisco CA.
Born February 27, 1940 in Washington DC, Grove was an accomplished illustrator who produced covers and interior art for most of the major SF/F publishers. He was also known for his movie posters, most famously the film adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983).
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Miles Vorkosigan, the offbeat young hero whose passage into adulthood took place over a number of adventures, is no longer central in Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, but the title character turns out to be his cousin, Ivan Xav: a member of the Barrayaran ruling class, which strongly resembles 19th-century Britain’s aristocratic warriors and public servants, in an Empire expanded to interplanetary scale, facing enemies with their own place in the
The longlist for the 2013 Carnegie Medal, given annually to “the most outstanding book for children” published in the UK, has been announced. Works of genre interest on this year’s list include:
Romantic Times Book Reviews has announced the nominees for their 2012 Reviewers’ Choice Awards. There are over a dozen categories of SF/Fantasy/Horror interest, with a few of the most prominent included below.
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+ Baxter, Stephen : Bronze Summer (Roc 978-0-451-46479-8, $26.95, 512pp, hardcover, November 2012) • Nominal Publication Date: Tue 6 Nov 2012 • Northland Trilogy #2 First US edition (UK: Gollancz, September 2011)
Alternate history novel, second of a trilogy following Stone Spring (2010), set 10,000 years in the past among tribes living on the land that then connected Britain to Europe, concerning a tsunami that threatens them and a plan
Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT 11.11 WP 11.04 LAT 11.04 USAT 10.28 PW 11.05 Amz (11.05) UK: Amz UK (11.05) Canada: Amz.ca (11.05) Items on list -x- number ...Read More Read more
City of Ruins by Kristine Kathryn Rusch has won the 14th Endeavour Award. The finalists were:
The Endeavour Award is given to a novel or single-author collection written by a Pacific Northwest writer and includes ...Read More
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Gregory Albert Benford was born January 30, 1941 in Mobile AL, along with his identical twin James. Their father was in the army, and they moved frequently. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BS in physics in 1963, and earned his MS in 1965 and PhD in 1967 from UC San Diego. He worked at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory from 1967-71, then joined UC Irvine, where he was
The World Fantasy Awards winners were announced at this year’s World Fantasy Convention, held November 1-4, 2012 in Toronto, Canada. (Lifetime Achievement winners are announced in advance of the event).
The winners are:
Novel:
» Publishers Weekly is out with its Best Books of 2012; the fiction list includes Karen Thompson Walker and Junot Díaz; the SF/F/H list has titles by Bennett, Jemisin, Johnson, Kosmatka, McKillip, Shinn, and the VanderMeers; the Children’s Fiction list includes titles by Libba Bay, Kristin Cashore, Margo Lanagan, Lois Lowry, Marissa Meyer, and Maggie Stiefvater; the Nonfiction list includes a title by Marina Warner ...Read More
Read moreAbyss & Apex • Magazine of Speculative Fiction, since Jan/Feb 2003; editor-in-chief Wendy S. Delmater • Format: Online • Frequency: Quarterly • http://www.abyssapexzine.com/
4th Quarter 2012— Issue 4Q • This issue has fiction by N.E. Chenier, Lindsey Duncan, John Glass, Sheila Crosby, Arkady Martine, and Berrien Henderson. • There’s also poetry by Marge Simon and others, a flash fiction by Andrew S. Taylor, and an editorial.
(Sat 3 Nov
» Slate: Choire Sicha reviews Ursula K. Le Guin; “The incredible stories of Ursula Le Guin make arguments about genre seem foolish”
» Also at Slate: Jenny Hendrix reviews Philip Pullman’s Fairy Tales From the Brothers Grimm
» Wall Street Journal: Tom Shippey reviews Benford & Niven’s Bowl of Heaven
» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Joe Abercrombie, James Lovegrove, Gardner Dozois ...Read More
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As I write this in September, 2012, Charlie Stross and I just returned from a tour with our novel Rapture of the Nerds, a book about – among other things – technological immortality as achieved through brain uploading. Digital mortality was very much on my mind as we crossed the country. I had begun my trip with a few days in Toronto, attending to a strange and new kind ...Read More
Read moreThe Eaton Collection of Science Fiction & Fantasy at the University of California in Riverside announced they are launching the Eaton Journal of Archival Research in Science Fiction. This bi-annual, peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal is now soliciting articles for the first issue, scheduled for publication April 10th 2013.
Each issue will feature three types of articles: scholarly (with a significant research component), Methodological/Pedagogical, and articles that focus on neglected authors, ...Read More
Read more» David Langford’s Ansible 304
» NPR: Alan Cheuse reviews Karin Tidbeck’s Jagannath ...Read More
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The November issue features interviews with Gregory Benford and Tim Pratt, a new column by Cory Doctorow, and reviews of short fiction and new books by Hannu Rajaniemi, Lois McMaster Bujold, Iain M. Banks, Stephen King & Stewart O’Nan, David Levithan, and many others.
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Update 8 December: Editing of votes is going more slowly than I’d hoped; yes I finished first pass of novel names on Tuesday, but second pass is taking longer, so I’m not done with the novel votes yet, and have yet to even begin looking at the short fiction votes (of which I expect there will be more). Possibly I’ll have novel results in the next few days, but can’t ...Read More
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