5 days ago by mentatjack

The Sofanauts has quickly become my favorite podcast. I loved hearing Paul Di Filippo and Peter Watts discuss the trials and tribulations of surviving as a writer. They got me thinking about how I might put myself on the trajectory to write for video games. Hearing Jeff VanderMeer, Jeremy Tolbert, S ...

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6 days ago by David

If you believe in reading short fiction for pleasure, you’re condemned to frequent disappointment. Most short fiction, even the good stuff, is… laborious. So when reading the anthology Eclipse Three, you may be startled at the unexpected sensation of enjoyment. Oh, and here’s a spoiler warning, alth ...

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14 days ago by mattbruensteiner

I was able to “sneak” in to the World Fantasy Convention here in San Jose last week in the guise of press. It was great fun to meet some local authors, and I got a post for Metblogs out of it. I also got to sit in on a couple of readings and about half of Gordon Van Gelder’s panel on 60 years of F&S ...

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45 days ago by Timmi Duchamp

I see that over at the Sci-fi Wire, Paul Di Filippo is asking Why does the jury that awards the Nobel Prize for Literature hate us? By "us," I mean, of course, hardcore writers and partisans of fantastika, people unafraid and unashamed to boldly identify themselves primarily with the genres of scien ...

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68 days ago by Stranger to the World

SF SITE UPDATE: This week over at SF.DRB site: “Steampunk” Anthology reviewed, story-by-story -> Avi Abrams reviews stories by Ted Chiang, Joe R. Lansdale, Paul Di Filippo, etc. included in the “Steampunk” anthology, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer - “…It is one heck of a ride, and it has everythi ...

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70 days ago by Martin

Now, to awaken her, he had only to speak her name, a name he had chosen and suitably altered in memory of a fairytale he had enjoyed as a child, a fairytale whose creator-figure harmonized vaguely with Geppi’s own name and vocation. How convenient. This is, obviously, a fairytale re-telling where – ...

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99 days ago by shweta_narayan

But really, yay! I was worried, after the Eclipse 1 cover with no women named on it and the gender imbalance of the Eclipse 2 TOC, but The Eclipse 3 cover and TOC look really damn good to me. Huge kudos to Jonathan Strahan for listening to people last year. (Via 14theditch (Jeff Ford), who has a swo ...

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106 days ago by David Marshall

This is a short novel, printed in a non-standard but interesting layout, and packaged in a box with a jigsaw puzzle and a pulp-style piece of jacket artwork laid in as a full-colour print. The artwork and design is by Jim Woodring in an edition limited to 500 sets, signed by author and artist and pu ...

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113 days ago by The Angry Black Woman

SFSignal: Here is the table of contents for a new anthology called The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF, it is edited by Mike Ashley. The General SF Reading Public: WTF there are only men in that anthology. Many SFSignal Commenters: OMG this is messed up! Only men? Boo. Some Black Chick: Yeah and also ...

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113 days ago by Martin

When even SF Murphy recognises there is a problem, just how far from the pack have you strayed?

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