» The New Yorker: How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real
» The Nation: The Rest Is Up to Us: Ted Chiang’s science fiction helps us look past the power of technology
» New York Times Magazine: How Chinese Sci-Fi Conquered America, about Ken Liu
» Wall Street Journal: Tom Shippey picks his Best Science-Fiction of 2019 by David Walton, Daniel Suarez, Cory Doctorow, Erin Craig, Michael Swanwick
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The Best of Uncanny, edited by Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas (Subterranean 978-1596069183, $40, 680pp, hardcover) December 2019
In this challenging, ever-mutable internet era, when publishers are continually searching for ways to find an audience and stay alive, a magazine can take many forms. Some remain old-school print-only. Some are exclusively web-based. Others are hybrids on a regular basis. But one other interesting business model for zines ...Read More
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The New Voices of Science Fiction, edited by Hannu Rajaniemi & Jacob Weisman (Tachyon 978-1-61696-291-3, 432pp, $17.95) November 2019
In the deep past of our genre, how did one become a notable new writer? The first step back then was always the same as it is now: publish some good, standout stories as your apprentice and journeyman work. But subsequent public recognition in the days when print magazines dominated ...Read More
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World Engines: Destroyer, Stephen Baxter (UK: Gollancz 978-1473223172, £20, 576pp, hardcover) September 2019
As nearly as I can suss out, Stephen Baxter currently has no publisher in the USA. His last three books in his classic Xeelee series—Xeelee Endurance (2015), Xeelee Vengeance (2017) and Xeelee Redemption (2018)—appeared from Gollancz in the UK, but not here. And this newest one has no American edition either.
Now, thanks to the ...Read More
Read more» Slate: Isaac Butler, The Disappearance of John M. Ford, with news that Tor is bringing his work back into print
» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Annalee Newitz, Mike Carey, Claire North, Alison Littlewood, Kim Lakin-Smith
» Recent dining with Scott Edelman: Paul Kirchner, Michael J. Walsh, and Locus Online reviewer Paul Di Filippo ...Read More
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All Worlds Are Real Era, Susan Palwick (Fairwood 978-1933846842, $17.99, 322pp, hardcover) November 2019
With the publication of her new story collection, All Worlds Are Real, Susan Palwick charts her sixth book over the course of her 35 years of professional publication. Measured reductionistically by number of pages produced, she has not been extremely prolific. But when gauged by the quality of her prose and the allure and ...Read More
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New titles this week are by Mirah Bolender, Dave Butler & Aaron Michael Ritchey, David Carrico, John Crowley, Eric Flint & Walter H. Hunt, Kel Kade, E.E. Knight, Sara B. Larson, Kristyn Merbeth, Erin Morgenstern, Daniel José Older, Jerry Pournelle (edited by John F. Carr), Tim Pratt, Shannon Price, Jennifer Roberson, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, Neal ...Read More
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Supernova Era, Cixin Liu (Tor 978-1250306036, $27.99, 352pp, hardcover) October 2019
The Anglophone market for foreign fantastika often seems to have one significant niche available per era. No matter how many non-English-speaking authors are producing interesting material, only a single name becomes widely translated and prominent. For the longest time during the earliest years of the genre, that berth was filled of course by Jules Verne. Then by Lem. ...Read More
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New titles this week are by Peter F. Hamilton, Faith Hunter, Marshall Ryan Maresca, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Cat Rambo, Lina Rather, Juliana Rew, and Robert Silverberg. ...Read More
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Antediluvian, Wil McCarthy (Baen 978-1-4814-8431-2, $25, 320pp, hardcover) October 2019
Award-winning author Wil McCarthy has not brought forth a novel since—if I am reading his ISFDB entry aright—2005’s To Crush the Moon, and I suspect a whole new generation of readers is unfamiliar with his name and accomplishments: the ability to splendidly blend solid scientific outrageousness with slambang action and likable Everyman characters. That’s a shame, since, as ...Read More
Read more» Publishers Weekly’s Best SF/Fantasy/Horror of 2019 are by King, Turnbull, Hurley, Starling, McGuire, LaValle/Adams, and Wendig
» Recently in NY Times: For Some Horror Writers, Nothing Is Scarier Than a Changing Planet by Naomi Booth, discussing Amitav Ghosh and Jeff VanderMeer and others
» Also, Danielle Trussoni reviews horror by Lovecraft (annotated by Klinger), nonfiction by Kröger and Anderson, a novel by Marente de Moor, and a collection by ...Read More
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New titles this week are by Jason Arnopp, Matthew Bright, Sue Burke, K.V. Johansen, Ausma Zehanat Khan, Cixin Liu, Kim Newman, Emily Robertson, and Brent Weeks. ...Read More
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Salvation Lost, Peter F. Hamilton (Del Rey 978-0399178856, 512pp, $32.00, hardcover) October 2019
I’m always chuffed when a review of mine provides a sentence that is deemed blurb-worthy by a publisher. This just happened with my review of Peter Hamilton’s novel Salvation from 2018. I appear on the back cover of the brand-new sequel, Salvation Lost, saying, “It’s a bravura performance from start to finish… Hamilton is juggling ...Read More
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New titles this week are by Nina Allan, Harold Bloom, Elizabeth Bowen, Daniel Braum, John Connolly, Nicky Drayden, S.C. Emmett, Derek Künsken, Joel Levy, Laurence MacNaughton, Benjamin Percy, Madeleine Roux, Priya Sharma, and Tade Thompson. ...Read More
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