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» David Langford’s Ansible 328
» Publishers Weekly is first out with Best Books of 2014 lists: Sf/fantasy/horror titles are by Cambias, Gibson, Hyde, Lebbon, MacFarlane, Page & Lake, and Sherman; fiction titles include Margaret Atwood, Chang-Rae Lee, and Helen Oyeyemi
» NPR interviews Cory Doctorow about whether “information wants to be free”
» LA Times profiles William Gibson
» The Atlantic: Jeff VanderMeer on The Uncanny Power of Weird Fiction
» Guardian profiles Guy Gavriel Kay
» Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Anne Rice’s Prince Lestat
» Kepler’s Books in Menlo Park CA hosts a Sci Fi/Fantasy Day [scroll down] on Nov 15, with Andy Weir, Steven Erikson, Pat Murphy, Ellen Klages, Marie Brennan, Chaz Brenchley, and others
» Dark Delicacies in Burbank CA hosts Joe R. Lansdale on Nov 5th and a Creature from the Black Lagoon 60th anniversary event on Nov 8th with David J. Schow and many others
» Redcat at Disney Hall in downtoan LA presents Samuel R. Delany, Nov 15, 3pm
» Guar... Tue 28 Oct —
» The New Yorker: A Science-fiction Classic Still Smolders, about Walter M. Miller, Jr.’s A Canticle for Leibowitz
» Darin Bradley reports that ‘zine Farrago’s Wainscot is being revived after five years
» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews William Gibson’s The Peripheral
» NY Times: Dwight Garner reviews Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things
» Sunday’s NY Times Book Review includes a science fiction and fantasy column by N.K. Jemisin, covering Robert Jackson Bennett, Peyton Marshall, Beth Cato, William Gibson, and Ann Leckie
» Salon: Michael Berry on The Rise of Climate Fiction, focusing on Paolo Bacigalupi
» New York Review of SF Readings presents John Langan and Nicholas Kaufmann on November 4th
» Fantastic Fiction at KGB presents Nancy Kress and Jack Skillingstead on November 19th Thu 16 Oct —
» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews David Cronenberg’s novel Consumed
» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Hieroglyph, Scalzi, Winters
»: io9: Sean Williams on The Tragic Demise of Science Fiction’s Greatest Idea [teleportation]
» io9: Charlie Jane Anders on 10 Science Fiction Authors Whose Books Just Kept Getting Stranger
» KGB’s November 19th event hosts Jack Skillingstead and Nancy Kress Fri 10 Oct —
» David Langford’s Ansible 327
» KGB Fantastic Fiction has Genevieve Valentine and E. Lily Yu, next Wednesday, October 15, 7pm
» Borderlands Books has upcoming events with Terry Shames, F. Paul Wilson, Robert Shults and Rudy Rucker, and others
» Washington Post: Peter Straub reviews Keith Donohue
» Mythic Delirium has Issue 1.2 content
» David Naimon interviews David Mitchell
» Salon: Our science-fiction apocalypse: Meet the scientists trying to predict the end of the world
» Slate: essay by Ramez Naam about the Neal Stephenson-inspired anthology Hieroglyph Tue 16 Sep —
» Sunday NY Times Book Review: Scott Hutchins reviews Jeff VanderMeer’s Acceptance; elsewhere in Sunday’s NYT, VanderMeer essays about The Lighthouse Keepers
» Slate: Ed Finn (co-editor of new anthology Hieroglyph) essays about Why our science fiction needs new dreams
» Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego has events this next week with Lauren Beukes, Steven Gould, Chelsea Cain, Anna Carey and Gretchen McNeil, and James Ellroy Fri 12 Sep —
» Fantastic Fiction at KGB is now releasing audio recordings of recent months readings
» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy; meanwhile, Steven H Silver interviews Di Filippo for Amazing Stories
» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews William T. Vollmann
» Mythic Delirium’s September features are now live — works by Mohlere, Lanagan, Taaffe
» David Naimon has a radio interview with Benjamin Parzybok; earlier, Karen Russell
» Events at Borderlands Books in San Francisco in coming weeks include Steven Gould, Maria Alexander, Terry Shames, Greg Bear Tue 09 Sep —
» Time Magazine: Lev Grossman on How Magic Conquered Pop Culture
» Slate’s Mac Rogers reviews Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Southern Reach’ trilogy: These Amazing Novels Are Like Lost, Except You Won’t Be Enraged When You Finish Them
» New Statesmen reviews VanderMeer: “Intricate, complex and surprising”
» Slate’s DS Bigham: One Planet, One Language: How Realistic Is Science Fiction Linguistics?
» NY Times on dystopian novels: The World Is Ending, and Readers Couldn?t Be Happier
» Chicago Tribune posts columns by Gary K. Wolfe like this one, but you need to subscribe to see them
» Guy Gavriel Kay celebrates 30 years of Fionavar at Bakka Phoenix Books in Toronto, September 19th, 7pm Tue 02 Sep —
» David Langford’s Ansible 326
» Guardian: Ursula K. Le Guin reviews David Mitchell Sat 30 Aug —
» Entertainment Weekly gives VanderMeer’s Acceptance an A-; also (though apparently not online) David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks gets an A and Randall Munroe’s What If? an A
» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Graham Joyce’s The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit
» Washington Post: Nancy Hightower reviews Peter Watts, John Scalzi, Ron Duncan
» Huffington Post: 15 Real-Life Scientists Share Their Favorite Science Fiction Books, Movies
» IEET: An Interview with: Professor George Slusser — Eaton science fiction collection’s Curator
» Photos from Loncon3 by Keith Stokes, James Patrick Kelly, and Strangelove
» KGB readings September 17 will be with Mary Robinette Kowal and Leanna Renne Hieber
» New York Review of Science Fiction Readings for September 9 are with Walter Mosley and Paul Di Filippo; in October, Paul Park and James Morrow
» Ellen Datlow has photos from August KGB readings with Veronica Schanoes and Karen Heuler Sun 24 Aug —
» LA Times: Jeff VanderMeer: Sci-fi and fantasy authors reveal truths in the strangest fiction
» NY Times Book Review: Terry Pratchett: By the Book
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New Books : 4 November
Tuesday 4 November 2014
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Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison!, Steven Erikson's Willful Child, Jack McDevitt's Coming Home, and titles by Baxter, Bedford, Brenchley, Brennan, Card, Carriger, Clark, Czerneda, Green, Grinti & Grinti, Marillier, Martin & Snodgrass, Metzl, Niven et al, Shinn, and Williams
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 3 November 2014
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The World of Ice & Fire enters the USA Today list; still selling well at Amazon
Cory Doctorow: Stories Are a Fuggly Hack
Sunday 2 November 2014
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From Locus Magazine's November Issue.
Storytelling is a fuggly (funky and ugly — that is, cool but also really weird and inefficient) hack to get you to feel stuff — make up a story about imaginary people in order to trick your naive empathy into believing that they exist so that you empathize with them and then feel some cool and difficult emotions.
November Issue Table of Contents
Saturday 1 November 2014
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The November issue features interviews with authors Hannu Rajaniemi and Linda Nagata, a new column by Cory Doctorow, a special R.A. Lafferty Centennial feature, a spotlight on Joe Monti, and reviews of short fiction and books by Lavie Tidhar, Ann Leckie, Stephen King, Gregory Maguire, and others.
New Books : October Supplemental
Friday 31 October 2014
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Anne Rice's Prince Lestat, Bruce Sterling's Twelve Tomorrows, Scott Westerfeld's Afterworlds, Mike Allen's Unseaming, and titles by Aguirre, Alexander, Allen & Allen, Anderson & Olexa, Bradley, Engdahl, Jeffers, John, Marshall, Morris, Mullins, and Spinrad
Periodicals: late October
Thursday 30 October 2014
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New issues of Analog, Asimov's, and Bastion, plus what's new this month at Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late October
Wednesday 29 October 2014
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Reviews of stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Dark, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, Kaleidotrope, and Bastion
New Books : 28 October
Tuesday 28 October 2014
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William Gibson's The Peripheral, Martin/Garcia/Antonsson's The World of Ice and Fire, and titles by Andrews, Armstrong, Faber, Gaiman & Mattotti, Haydon, Henry, Kittredge, Lawhead, Rothfuss, and Wilber
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 27 October 2014
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Garth Nix's Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen debuts on two lists.
Kameron Hurley: Horror & Glory
Sunday 26 October 2014
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Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's October Issue interview
All writing is practice. There's this funny thing that ends up happening once you get published: a lot of editors and publishers will tell their authors, 'You should blog, it's great for your career and it's good visibility.' What people don't realize is these are very different types of writing. Novel writing, blog writing, corporate copy writing.
Classic Reprints: October
Saturday 25 October 2014
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H.P. Lovecraft annotated; a volume of mostly 19th-century horror stories; and books by Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Jordan, George R.R. Martin, and Christopher Priest
Adrienne Martini reviews Kaleidoscope
Friday 24 October 2014
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Reviews
From Locus Magazine's October 2014 issue
The seeds of an idea were planted and the result is a book full of YA SF/F shorter fiction that better resembles the actual world — you know, one that has more than straight, white people in it. A crowd-funding campaign was launched and the resulting book is now alive.
New in Paperback: September - October
Thursday 23 October 2014
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David G. Hartwell & Patrick Nielsen Hayden's anthology Twenty-First Century Science Fiction, and titles by Campbell, Carey, Carriger, Connolly, Erikson, Flint & Carrico, Gaiman, Gunn, Jeschke, Lackey/Flint/Freer, Lerner, Martin & Dozois, Sanderson, Stiefvater, and Williamson
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-October
Wednesday 22 October 2014
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Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Asimov's, Analog, Lightspeed, Fantasy Magazine, and On Spec
New Books : 21 October
Tuesday 21 October 2014
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Jonathan Carroll's Bathing the Lion, Peter F. Hamilton's The Abyss Beyond Dreams, Maggie Stiefvater's Blue Lily, Lily Blue, Sheri S. Tepper's Fish Tails
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 20 October 2014
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A new Companions Codex novel by R.A. Salvatore debuts.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Christopher Fowler
Sunday 19 October 2014
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Special to Locus Online
One might expect a novel concerned with "fear of darkness" to take place in some twilit, northern, Germanic clime, a place where daylight hours are short and fleeting. But right away we sense Fowler's inclination to mess with our expectations in his choice of settings: sunny Spain.
Russell Letson reviews William Gibson
Saturday 18 October 2014
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From Locus Magazine's October 2014 issue
The world evoked by The Peripheral is deliberately and progressively estranged, not only by its genre furniture (around to which we will get eventually), but by the writerly craft with which everything in the story is delivered.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Peter F. Hamilton
Friday 17 October 2014
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Special to Locus Online
Peter Hamilton's new novel stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the Culture books of Iain Banks and the Kefahuchi Tract saga of M. John Harrison, but rotated through the looking glass of a totally different, resolutely non-postmodern worldview, to produce a book that is paradoxically both old-school and totally au courant: the best of two worlds.
Periodicals: mid-October
Thursday 16 October 2014
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New issues of Abyss & Apex, Alt Hist, Aphelion, Aurealis, Fireside, Kaleidotrope, Luna Station Quarterly, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Perihelion, and Shimmer
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Jonathan Carroll
Wednesday 15 October 2014
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From Locus Magazine's October 2014 issue
Jonathan Carroll's greatest charm as a writer may well be simply that no one has yet been able to pin him down.
New Books : 14 October
Tuesday 14 October 2014
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Paolo Bacigalupi's The Doubt Factory, Greg Bear's War Dogs, Garth Nix's Clariel, anthologies from Ellen Datlow and Paula Guran, and titles by Bernobich, Doctorow & Wang, Durst, Krokos, Ruckley, and Warrington
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 13 October 2014
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Books by George R.R. Martin (et al) and Patrick Rothfuss are selling on Amazon prior to publication.
Paul Park: Metafictional Demons
Sunday 12 October 2014
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Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's October Issue interview
One of the ways in which science fiction tends to depart from our own experience of the world is that often in a science fiction world the facts are too clear. We go to some planet and there's an expository section that tells about the history of the place and how it works, because we need a clear sense of it in order for the story to develop correctly and make sense. But that's different from the way we perceive the real world. The worlds of any two different people don't really resemble each other. This is the problem with politics too.
Print Periodicals: early October
Saturday 11 October 2014
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New issues of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Dreams and Nightmares, and On Spec
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