Paperback reprint editions of two books debut this week, beginning with Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson’s A Memory of Light (Tor), ranking #3 on the New York Times mass market paperback list. Second is Helene Wecker’s The Golem and the Jinni (Harper Perennial), ranking #14 on NYT‘s trade paperback list.
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Collection Tenth of December by George Saunders is one of three finalists for the tenth annual Story Prize, honoring “books of short fiction.” Saunders was previously nominated for the prize in 2006, and is the first author to be nominated more than once. The winner will be announced in a ceremony on March 5, 2014 in New York. ...Read More
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Bova, Ben : Farside (Tor 978-0-7653-6359-6, $7.99, 368pp, mass market paperback, January 2014) • Nominal Publication Date: Tue 31 Dec 2013 (First edition: Tor, February 2013)
SF novel about an observatory on the farside of the Moon being built to investigate a newly discovered Earth-like planet 30 light years away. • Macmillan’s site has this description with an excerpt. • Amazon’s “Look Inside” function also provides a preview.
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» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Schwab, Powell, Lundberg, Simmons, VanderMeers, and McGugan
» Chicago Tribune: Gary K. Wolfe reviews Haldeman, Walton, and Watts
» The MIT Tech: Kristen Sunter reviews Joe Haldeman’s Work Done for Hire and interviews the author
» NPR: Kim Stanley Robinson looks at Three New Wave Classics by Disch, Russ, and Delany
» The West Australian profiles Kim Stanley Robinson
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Read moreFirst stories of the 2014 review year. Some inauspicious notes.
This issue guest-edited by Jonathan Strahan has a larger than usual number of stories, complete with forwards from both editor and author.
“The Scrivener” by Eleanor Arnason“There was a scrivener who had three daughters.” Which opening line suggests
The 2013 Philip K. Dick Award nominees have been announced:
Here’s one final interview from ICON 38, with two guests of honor, Nancy Kress and Jack Skillingstead.
[Alvaro Zinos-Amaro] What’s been the high point of ICON 38 for you?
[Jack Skillingstead] I liked DreamCon, the workshop for high school and college students. It was fun sitting there talking to the students. I also liked getting to know Ellen Datlow better. I’vet met her a few times, but hadn’t spent a ...Read More
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Annalee Newitz writes about science, pop culture, and the future. They’re the editor in chief of io9, a publication that covers science and science fiction, and has over 5 million readers every month. Newitz is the author of Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, and has also published in Wired, The Smithsonian Magazine, The Washington Post, 2600, New Scientist, Technology Review, Popular Science, Discover, and
* Brennan, M. L. : Iron Night (Roc 978-0-451-41841-8, $7.99, 320pp, mass market paperback, January 2014) • Nominal Publication Date: Tue 7 Jan 2014 • Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 978-1101612965 • Generation V #2
Urban fantasy novel, second novel in a series following Generation V (May 2013), about a down and out vampire faced with a threat to his family’s territory. • Penguin’s site has this description,
Loncon 3, the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, to be held August 14-18, 2014 at ExCel, London Docklands, has announced that the 2014 Hugo Award nomination period will open January 8, 2014 at 8 a.m. GMT.
[This post has been revised, as earlier information indicated the nominations were already open.]
The highest ranking genre titles on two of this week’s lists, USA Today‘s and Publishers Weekly‘s, are the trilogy of novels by Veronica Roth, Divergent, Insurgent, and 2013’s Allegiant, presumably in anticipation of the upcoming film version of volume one, opening March 21st.
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The Libertarian Futurist Society has announced the Prometheus Award finalists in the Hall of Fame category:
This category honors novels, novellas, stories, graphic novels, anthologies, films, TV shows/series, plays, poems, music recordings, and other works of ...Read More
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Stina Leicht was born March 29, 1962 in St. Louis MO. She attended Sam Houston State University and the University of Houston, and returned to school to study 3D animation at Austin Community College in 2003, graduating in 2006. She has worked as a graphic designer, a bookseller, and in the gaming industry, and has been a full-time writer and freelancer since 2005.
Her debut novel Of Blood and Honey
Clarkesworld • SF and fantasy fiction, nonfiction, and podcasts, since 2006; publisher/editor Neil Clarke • Format: Online; Ebook • Frequency: Monthly • http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/
January 2014— Issue 88, cover art by Waldemar Kazak • Fiction in this issue is by Ken Liu, Cheng Jingbo, Yoon Ha Lee, Aliette de Bodard, and Robert Charles Wilson • Nonfiction includes an editorial by Neil Clarke, an interview with Pat Cadigan, and essays by
» David Langford’s Ansible 318
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Read moreNeil Clarke of Clarkesworld has declared that the magazine is no longer eligible for the Hugo Award in the Semiprozine category.
Last year, Clarkesworld Magazine received its third Hugo Award for Best Semiprozine. It appears as though we’ll be going out on top. The combined income from Clarkesworld (and its parent, Wyrm Publishing) has just barely crossed the threshold for semiprozine eligibility. We are NOT eligible for nomination this year. ...Read More
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Kage Baker, In the Company of Thieves (Tachyon Publications Nov 2013)
A welcome posthumous collection of six stories, one an original tale co-authored by Baker’s sister Kathleen Bartholomew in the acclaimed Company series.
E. C. Blake, Masks (DAW Nov 2013)
A young woman’s masking is supposed to confirm her as a Gifted magic uses, but instead sends her to slave in the mines in this powerful fantasy novel, the
Plots are funny things. In the real world, stuff is always happening, but it’s not a plot. People live. People die. People are made glorious or miserable. Things eagerly awaited are realized, or hopes are cruelly dashed. Love is gained; love is lost. But all these things are not a plot – they lack the fundamental tidiness and orderliness that makes a story a story.
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Read moreAuthor Jay Lake announced that he has made his entire genetic sequence open source through the Personal Genome Project. The sequencing was originally paid for by a fundraiser last January, Sequence a Science Fiction Writer, done as an attempt to find a new treatment path for Lake’s colon cancer. This may be the first time that an entire human whole genome sequencing set has been released open source. Lake’s cancer ...Read More
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