The Alpha SF/F/H Workshop for Young Writers is a ten-day workshop for speculative fiction writers aged 14-19 at the University of Pittsburgh's Greensburg campus. At Alpha, students write and revise a short story, give and receive critiques, work with professional authors , and form friendships that often last for years.

This year, the requests for financial aid exceed the scholarship fund by several thousand dollars and they're raising money to help bridge the gap. The Alpha class of 2009 created a picture book called Ned and Jane, which they're giving away in return for donations of $5 or more. Here's a video to help promote the effort:

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Posted by John DeNardo at Sunday March 21, 2010 at 12:20 AM

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Check out this clever video from the folks at Penguin [via Poe TV]

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Posted by John DeNardo at Sunday March 21, 2010 at 12:18 AM

Dark Arts Books has posted the table of contents for their horror anthology When The Night Comes Down edited by Bill Breedlove:

1. "The Unwrapping of Alastair Perry" by Joseph D'Lacey
2. "Etoile's Tree" by Joseph D'Lacey
3. "Introscopy" by Joseph D'Lacey
4. "Morag's Fungus" by Joseph D'Lacey
5. "The Quiet Ones" by Joseph D'Lacey
6. "Silvery Moon" by Bev Vincent
7. "Knock 'Em Dead" by Bev Vincent
8. "Something In Store" by Bev Vincent
9. "Purgatory Noir" by Bev Vincent
10. "Elevator Girls" by Robert E. Weinberg
11. "The One Answer That Really Matters" by Robert E. Weinberg
12. "Maze" by Robert E. Weinberg
13. "Breeding The Demons" by Nate Kenyon
14. "Gravedigger" by Nate Kenyon
15. "One With The Music" by Nate Kenyon
16. "The Buzz of a Thousand Wings" by Nate Kenyon

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Posted by John DeNardo at Sunday March 21, 2010 at 12:12 AM

The contents of Interzone #227 have been posted:

Stories

• "The History of Poly-V" by Jon Ingold
• "Dance of the Kawkawroons" by Mercurio D. Rivera
• "Chimbwi" by Jim Hawkins
• "Flying in the Face of God" by Nina Allan
• "Johnny's New Job" by Chris Beckett
• "The Glare and the Glow" by Steve Rasnic Tem

Features

• Guest Editorial by Chris Beckett
• Ansible Link by David Langford
• BookZone by Jim Steel and the team
• Laser Fodder by Tony Lee
• Mutant Popcorn by Nick Lowe

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Posted by John DeNardo at Sunday March 21, 2010 at 12:12 AM

• Fringe does a musical!


• Slice of SciFi interviews Kevin Grazier, Scientific Adviser for BSG and Eureka.


• Dave Freer on moving home and Writing.


• Daily Kos lists More Science Fiction You Should Be Reading.


• New podcast: The Functional Nerds, featuring Patrick Hester and John Anealio.


• Spectacular Photos From The Revamped Hubble Space Telescope.


• Unholy Math: Metallica + The Beatles + Cthulhu = "Thing That Should Not Let it Be"

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Posted by John DeNardo at Sunday March 21, 2010 at 12:05 AM

Sue Lange is working on a Slipstream project and would love some slipstream story recommendations. In case you aren't familiar with this genre, Wikipedia defines slipstream thusly:

Slipstream is a kind of fantastic or non-realistic fiction that crosses conventional genre boundaries between science fiction/fantasy and mainstream literary fiction.
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Slipstream falls between speculative fiction and mainstream fiction. While some slipstream novels employ elements of science fiction or fantasy, not all do. The common unifying factor of these pieces of literature is some degree of the surreal, the not-entirely-real, or the markedly anti-real.

So tell us: What's your favorite slipstream story?

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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday March 20, 2010 at 12:25 AM

Anyone else recognize the standard Hanna-Barbera house music (at 6:30) that they also used in Super Friends?

[via The Retroist]

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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday March 20, 2010 at 12:15 AM

• @Suvudu Free Library:
  • "Cross Purposes" by Elizabeth Moon
  • "Make Believe" by Michael Reaves
• @Hub Magazine #114: The Unpopular Opinion of Reverend Tobias Thackery" by Adam Christopher
• @Strange Horizons: "The Kiss" by Lauren LeBano
• @Author's site: "The Lovesong of Jack McNally" by J.M. McDermott.
• Port Iris Magazine has free fiction by by Jakob Drud, Mike Norris and Aaron Polson.
• @ManyBooks.net:
  • "Exile from Space" by Judith Merril
  • "The Six Fingers of Time" by R.A. Lafferty
  • "Danger" by Fletcher Pratt
  • "The Instant of Now" by Irving Cox
  • "Skin Game" by Charles E. Fritch
  • "The Cartels Jungle" by Irving Cox
  • "Conquest Over Time" by Michael Shaara
  • "Generals Help Themselves" by M.C. Pease
  • "Homo Inferior" by Mari Wolf
  • "Membership Drive" by Murray F. Yaco
  • By Evelyn E. Smith:
    • "My Fair Planet"
    • "Helpfully Yours"
    • "Once a Greech"
    • "The Vilbar Party"
    • "Collector's Item" by Evelyn E. Smith

Read more...

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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday March 20, 2010 at 12:14 AM

Mash-up of the day!

[via Cynical-C]

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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday March 20, 2010 at 12:09 AM

Interviews & Profiles

• Sci-Fi Fan Letter interviews Blake Charlton.
• Agony Column Podcast interviews Lou Anders.
• Port Iris Magazine interviews Peter S. Beagle, Catherynne M. Valente, Matt Busch, SJ Tucker, Steve Collins, and David Gibbs.

News

• Toronto author Peter Watts has been found guilty of assaulting, resisting and obstructing a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer. His response is here.
• GOOD CAUSE: Alan DeNiro is using his book tour to raise money for Mercy Corps and their efforts to aid in Haiti's earthquake relief.
• Neil Patrick Harris says Dr. Horrible 2 will be a movie.
• Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time heads to the screen.
• Books up for consideration for the Arthur C Clarke Award.
• The 2010 British Fantasy Awards Longlist. Hey look! We're on that list...Go us!

Articles

• A. Lee Martinez on The Semantics of Fantasy Fans.
• Ross E. Lockhart on Genre Fiction is Going to the Dogs.
• Lori Devoti on Writing a book? This better be personal!
• @ Wired: Swift, canny book scanner bodes publishing mischief a-plenty.

Fun Stuff

• Website of the Week: Blue Tyson's Leigh Brackett (ology). [via The Cimmerian]
• Rank the Five Greatest Star Trek Movies.
• Cover Pr0n: Chris Roberson shares the iZombie #2 cover.
• Charlie Jane Anders lists 20 Great Infodumps From Science Fiction Novels.
• Topless Robot lists The 10 Best Stories in the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
• [via Lawrence Person]
• @The Onion: We Almost Go Inside The Mind Of Tim Burton But Then We Were Like 'Eh'.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday March 20, 2010 at 12:05 AM

REVIEW SUMMARY: Good ideas and a couple of interesting set pieces do not save moronic, by-the-number science fiction action movie.

MY RATING:

BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A man who repossesses artificial organs must flee from the organization that employs him when he cannot pay for his own artificial heart.

MY REVIEW:
PROS: Strong ideas, with one or two interesting action sequences and the occasional bit of cleverness.
CONS: Unconvincing worldbuilding, implausible characters and a surprising lack of guts. (No pun intended.)

Upon seeing Repo Men, I drove to a nearby Barnes and Noble and purchased a copy of The Repossession Mambo, the novel by Eric Garcia on which this futuristic thriller from director Miguel Sapochnik is based. My decision to buy the novel had nothing to do with the movie's quality. Or, rather, it did, and that's part of the problem. The movie presented ideas that were likely handled in the novel with exactly the finesse, skill and gallows wit that its adaptation lacked.

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Posted by Derek Johnson at Friday March 19, 2010 at 11:29 AM

In light of my abortive attempt at reading The Gone Away World I started thinking back at other books that I gave up on before finishing. I can't remember any book in the recent past, other than what sparked this post, that I quit on. For the most, if I read a book I'm not keen on, I can still find some way to plow through until the end.

The only other book that springs to mind is Dhalgren by Delaney. That one I started and stopped several times before I managed to force myself to finish it, and I didn't like it one bit. I should have left it alone but it's a classic so I there you go.

But what about you? What books have you stopped reading and why?

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Posted by JP Frantz at Friday March 19, 2010 at 4:50 AM

Here's a way-cool video from the folks at Cartoon Brew: Superman's Secret Cartoon History...

[via Edd Vick]

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Posted by John DeNardo at Friday March 19, 2010 at 12:15 AM

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Interviews/Profiles

• Jeffrey Ford interviews David Herter.
• The Nebula Awards interviews John Scalzi.
  
• Fantasy Magazine interviews Jay Lake and Shannon Page.
• A Writer's Blog interviews Simon Clark.
• ANC interviews Neil Gaiman 1, 2 (video).
• @B&N: Paul Di Filippo spotlights Small Press Graywolf. [via Locus Online]

News

• 2010 Scribe Nominees Announced.
• Amazon Buy Button Rumors Rock Internet.
• AudioText is waiving shipping charges in March. These are the folks behind such productions as Aliens Rule, The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction, and Mini-Masterpieces of Science Fiction.

Articles

• Jay Lake on Writing Through Cancer.
• Alisa Krasnostein on WASFF: Statement of Values.
• Jim C. Hines on Novel Survey Results, Part II.
• Valio98 on Bulgarian Science Fiction and Fantasy in 2009, I Told You So or Is Vidia Neypaul a Third World Writer? and English
  Translation of the Statement of B. Strugatsky about the fake accusation
  of Cameron in plagiarism, or similarities between Avatar and the Noon
  Universe.
• Rochita Loenen-Ruiz on Identity and Writing.
• Kalayna on Unofficial CP appreciation day.
• Nancy Jane Moore on Brave New (Writing) World: Fans, Friends & Followers.
• Megan Reid on Being a Bad Reader.
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer's Survival Guide: Groups.
• Nancy Kress on Moods.
• Juliette Wade on Do you use parallel drafts?
• Nathan Brasford on How To Format a Query Letter.
• The Intern on why famous authors don't want to read your unpublished manuscript.
• John Klima on the Polyphony Anthology Series.
• Lynn Viehl on Time to Read.
• A. Lee Martinez on The Batman Fallacy.
• @Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Peter Straub, Ian Whates, Ken MacLeod, Alastair Reynolds. [via Locus Online]

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Posted by Charles Tan at Friday March 19, 2010 at 12:05 AM

Yesterday Tor.com published a piece by Jo Walton entitled 'In Sheep's Clothing: Why Fantasy and SF might be disguised as each other' where Jo discusses books where fantasy settings have SF-nal underpinnings. Most of the series she discusses I've never read and, being fantasy, I've never wanted to read. Bingo! The perfect topic for an SF Fanatic like myself, why am I not a fan of fantasy?

As you might expect, being a SF fanatic, I like science fiction. A lot. It's my preferred genre of choice for TV, movies, books and games. It's not that I haven't read/watched/played fantasy stuff, I have. Some of it I've enjoyed quite a bit, but even so, there's still a reticence, a reluctance on my part to try new fantasy offerings. It doesn't matter how highly recommended or how much I may have enjoyed a particular book I still won't go running to the newest fantasy offering.

I think I've narrowed down the reasons to the following:

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Posted by JP Frantz at Thursday March 18, 2010 at 12:20 AM

The winners of this year's James Tiptree, Jr. Award have been announced:

• Greer Gilman for Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales [2009, Small Beer Press]
• Fumi Yoshinaga for Ooku: The Inner Chambers, (volumes 1 & 2) [2009, VIZ Media]

The James Tiptree, Jr. Award is an annual literary prize intended to "reward those women and men who are bold enough to contemplate shifts and changes in gender roles, a fundamental aspect of any society." The award is named after Alice B. Sheldon, who wrote under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. for many years before revealing her identity and real name.

For more information see The James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council website.

Congratulations to the winners!

See also: Past winners.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Thursday March 18, 2010 at 12:15 AM

Interviews/Profiles

• Fantasy Literature interviews Marjorie Liu.
• I Should Be Writing interviews Don Vaughn (podcast).
  
• Unsearchable Riches interviews Lisa Mantchev.
• The Science of Fiction interviews Chris East, Futurismic's Fiction Editor.
  

News

• Support Youth Literacy: Barrelhouse Hosts the D.C. Dzanc Creative Writing Workshop.
• 3rd Philippine Graphic/Fiction Awards.
  
• Tom Baker Returns as Doctor Who for an audio production.
• An update on the Peter Watts trial. [via File 770]
  

Articles

• Hal Duncan on Racebending and Integration.
• Wheatland Press on Polyphony 7: The Update with extra honesty.  Also: Do writers suck as readers? Prove Jason Sanford wrong!
  
• Paul Di Filippo on Small Press Spotlight: Graywolf.
• Ross E. Lockhart on Genre Fiction is Going to the Dogs.
• Charlie Stross on CMAP #6: Why did you pick such an awful cover for your new book?
• Editorial Ass on Do I really want to be published? (Your Questions continued).
• Janice Hardy on Re-Write Wednesday: Onward...No?
• Pimp My Novel on O Fortune, Fortune!
• Marie Brennan on First Girl Ever.
• Guardian Books Blog says Short is sweet when it comes to fiction and Book merchandise gets weird.
• Maurice Broaddus on Ghostwriting vs. Vanity.
• Andrew Liptak on The Temptation of Taste.
  
• John Scalzi on Why Hollywood Always, Always Gets the Future Wrong.

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Posted by Charles Tan at Thursday March 18, 2010 at 12:05 AM

My brother doesn't typically recommend books to me, he's usually too busy doing other stuff to have a lot of time to ready. So when he sends me an email saying I should read Nick Harkaway's The Gone Away World, I take note.

Trying to describe The Gone Away World is difficult. It's post-apocalyptic novel that fuses humor and satire with ninjas, mimes, comic books and video game elements to create something that is definitely unique, at times laugh out loud funny but sadly, ultimately, exhausting to read.

In this future, the ultimate weapon makes people, places and things 'Go Away' and replaces them with a fantastical landscape where people's nightmares come to life. Consequently, humanity has escaped into a walled civilization where pipes spray a mist to keep the 'Gone Away' at bay. The story starts with a fire raging at a particularly important pumping station and our hero and his team are called in to put it out, like a futuristic version of Red Adair's oil well fighters.

Harkaway has a unique writing style that can best be described as the bastard love child of Marcel Proust and Minister Faust. If that sounds interesting, it is, when it's firing on all cylinders. Which is the frustrating thing about the book, it rarely does so. Harkaway his prone to lengthy, excruciatingly detailed digressions and flashbacks, in fact the entire first 100 pages or so is one long flashback, peppered with pop culture references and riffs on comics, video games and a bunch of other stuff.

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Posted by JP Frantz at Wednesday March 17, 2010 at 2:55 PM

We turn our attention to book cover art this week. A good cover can mean more sales for a book...but what makes a good cover? We asked this week's panelists this question:

Here's what they said...

OK... honestly, I don't see that many book covers because I'm reading tons of sf and f book manuscripts to then DO their covers.... so when I take a break, I don't typically head off to the bookstore.... BUT, by way of homework for Mind Meld, this morning I stopped into my local Borders, and spent some time taking a look. In the end, I learned that I should do this more often, just to stay in touch with my market. First off, clearly I need to be doing more hot-babe-w-weapon +/- tattoo images, because clearly that's half the market nowadays. (pic one)... Now I like those jackets as much as the next id-controlled red-blooded male...but if that is the context, then things that are NOT-context tend to stand out in my quest for "blew you away." Also, I've learned to be leery of my id's attraction to cover art, in that sometimes there's a "honeymoon period." ;-) Anyway... I decided to go hunt in the wild for these, and not just open my latest Spectrum, because a) I didn't want to be filtered through the Spectrum judge panel, and b) I think that book design and type solution are critical to what makes a successful book cover.... and Spectrum doesn't show me that. I even diligently wrote down all the designers names so I could credit them, and then promptly left it on the last shelf for the Border's custodial staff, while snapping iPhone pics. I think that type/cover design is like parenting, where it can nurture, showcase and enhance the art if attended to diligently with an insightful light touch, and so easily frak it up otherwise.

So anyway...Here's what I came up with...

Two, right off the bat by Greg Manchess. He does exceptionally good figure work (full figured?) with a perfectly spartan but juicy brushwork and fairly unfettered backgrounds...everything I do NOT do...hmmm.. Next up came Scott Fischer's Titans of Chaos, with a beautifully rendered heroine in a levitation trance.... really exploring the boundaries of her image crop in an unconventional way. I also love Scott's whimsical ornamentation and color use...

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Posted by John DeNardo at Wednesday March 17, 2010 at 12:29 AM

Chris Dolley has posted the table of contents for the Book View Cafe anthology Dragon Lords and Warrior Women edited by Phyllis Irene Radford and illustrated by Ursula K. by Le Guin:

High Fantasy

1. "Eagle's Beak and Wings of Bronze" by Deborah J. Ross
2. "One Small Detail" by Katharine Kerr
3. "Hero" by Sherwood Smith

Fantastical Others

4. "Kind Hunter" by Pati Nagle
5. "The Merrow" by Steven Harper
6. "Night Harvest Cuvée Rouge" by Vonda N. by McIntyre
7. "Repo Babe" by Jennifer Stevenson

Modern Fantasy

8. "Grow Your Own" by Brenda W. by Clough
9. "East of the Sun, West of Acousticville" by Judith Tarr
10. "Headless Over Heels" by Chris Dolley
11. "Somewhere in Dreamland Tonight" by Madeleine Robins
12. "Daddy's Big Girl" by Ursula K. by Le Guin

Fantastic Merlin

13. "Taco Del and the Fabled Tree of Destiny" by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
14. "The Thief of Stones " by Sarah Zettel

Ancient Fantastics

15. "Not My Knot" by Irene Radford
16. "Dusty Wings" by Nancy Jane Moore
17. "Heart of Jade" by " by Amy Sterling Casil
18. "Feather of the Phoenix" by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
19. "The Natural History and Extinction of the People of the Sea" by Vonda N. by McIntyre

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Posted by John DeNardo at Wednesday March 17, 2010 at 12:20 AM

My new favorite web find (thanks to SuperPunch) is a Flickr gallery of CubeDudes, a collection of Lego figures that resemble (among other folks) some science fictional characters, both common and off-the-wall.

Above you can see the CubeDude version of Jean-Luc Picard, Wesley Crusher, Paul Atreides, and, my favorite, Jay Maynard the Tron Guy.

Check out the gallery and you can also find Robin the Boy Wonder, Buzz Lightyear, Frankenstein's monster, The Tick, Film Slashers (Freedy Krueger, Jason, Leatherface and Chucky), Wonder Woman, Captain America, Green Lantern, Jack Skellington, Lando Calrissian, and lots more.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Wednesday March 17, 2010 at 12:15 AM

Interviews/Profiles

• Temple Library Reviews interviews Lauren Beukes.
  
• Matt Heppe interviews Christian Cameron.
• Nick Harkaway's Guest of Honour Speech at P-Con (video). (via Cheryl Morgan)
• Suvudu interviews Elizabeth Moon and Jack Campbell.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Carrie Ryan.
• The Extra interviews Michael Shea.
• SciFi Wire interviews Tron Legacy's Jeff Bridges.
  

News

• Apex Birthday Sale!
• SLF Offers Older Writers Grant.

Articles

• SFWA on How to Kill Your Imaginary Friends: How To Talk Doctor! Lesson 1.
• Cindy Pon on Diversity in fantasy mine. (via Tansy Rayner Roberts)
• Jim C. Hines on Novel Survey Results, Part I.
• Nick Mamatas on The Professional.
  
• Victoria Strauss on Content Mills-Just A Stepping Stone in Your Career.
• Michael A. Stackpole on Will Ebooks Kill The Joy of Reading?
• Nisi Shawl on Writing and Racial Identity Versus the Spinrave.
• Nnedi Okorafor on Can you define African Science Fiction?
• Juliette Wade on Insiders and Outsiders.
  
• Missions Unknown on Scrap the Remakes and Film These Books Instead.
• Mark Kelly on Genres of Sequels and Series.
• Brit Mandelo on Queering SFF #1: First Experiences.
• Jo Walton on In Sheep's Clothing: Why Fantasy and SF might be disguised as each other.
• Kristin Cashore on the Flying Trapeze.
• Marie Brennan on First Girl Ever.
• A. Lee Martinez on Abracadabra!
• Nicola Morgan on Conflicting Advice.
• The Rejectionist on 5 Traits That Bag an Boyfriend Agent, Courtesy of Cosmopolitan Magazine.
• Imogen Russell Williams on What's in a name? A lot, when it comes to fantasy.
• Charlie Jane Anders asks: Have You Ever Hated A Book, Then Come Back To It Later And Loved It?
• Flick Gallery: 10 amazing Mars pulp covers.[via Marooned]
• Malinda Lo reads from Ash (podcast).
  
• [Also check out Charles' essay on Fandom and Piracy (Part 3) - Editor]
  

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Posted by Charles Tan at Wednesday March 17, 2010 at 12:05 AM

Look at these beauties...

Your Mission (should you choose to accept it): Tell us which cover you like best and why.

Books shown here:

• The Devil in Green by Mark Chadbourn (Artist: John Picacio)


• Blood of Ambrose (French) by James Enge (Artist: Frédéric Perrin)


• Deadman's Road by Joe R. Lansdale (Artist: Timothy Truman)

NOTE: Bigger, better cover art images are available by clicking the images or title links.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Tuesday March 16, 2010 at 11:29 AM

REVIEW SUMMARY: It's both steampunk and Literary. Take that, steampunk naysayers!

MY RATING:

BRIEF SYNOPSIS: The story of how mild-mannered Harold became trapped aboard the airship of an evil genius with only a handful of robots, the voice of his unrequited love, and the said evil genius (now in suspended animation) to keep him company.

MY REVIEW:
PROS: Steampunk is used not just for flavor, but also as a vehicle to give the story more meaning; lush prose; attractive, retro-futuristic world building.
CONS: Sometimes tries too hard to be Literary. Because of the diary-like telling, you never doubt where the story is headed.
BOTTOM LINE: This is not only a good steampunk novel, it's also a book with more depth than one might expect.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Tuesday March 16, 2010 at 12:29 AM

18 Days is an animated feature based on the Mahbharata, an ancient Indian epic written in Sanskrit. Grant Morrison, the writer, describes his film as "a psychedelic Lord of the Rings with Star Wars technology." After you see the trailer, I think you'll agree that Legolas totally needs an energy bow.

Looks interesting to me, although the city on the river does have a River Of Gods cover art vibe to it...

[H/T Quiet Earth]

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Posted by JP Frantz at Tuesday March 16, 2010 at 12:15 AM

Stephen King ventures into the world of comics with the launch of a new series called American Vampire, a new series co-authored with Scott Snyder and illustrated by Rafael Albuquerque. King will co-write the first five issues of the series, which is described thusly:

When notorious outlaw Skinner Sweet is attacked by an old enemy (who happens to be a member of the undead), the first American vampire is born... a vampire powered by the sun, stronger, fiercer, and meaner than anything that came before.

Plus... Pearl Jones is a struggling young actress in 1920's Los Angeles.
But when her big break brings her face-to-face with an ancient evil, her Hollywood dream quickly turns into a brutal, shocking nightmare.

This is the beginning of an epic new series, spanning decades and generations, and it all begins here.

The website includes a 40 second video (shown here) and other extras like a preview of the first issue.

[via Robot 6]

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Posted by John DeNardo at Tuesday March 16, 2010 at 12:15 AM

Interviews/Profiles

• New Zealand Radio interviews Neil Gaiman. (via Aurealis Xpress)
• Blood and Stardust interviews Nicholas Kaufmann.
• The Dragon Page interviews F. Paul Wilson.
• Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast interviews director Alexandre Philippe.
• Ghost in the Machine interviews Gillian Summers. (podcast)
• Dark Wolf's Fantasy Reviews interviews artists Todd Lockwood.
• SciFi Scanner interviews Mark Millar.
  
• BookBanter interviews Kim Stanley Robinson.
  

News

• SALE: 50% Off All In-Stock and Forthcoming Night Shade Titles!
• Lightspeed Will Temporarily Close to Submissions.
• Battlestar's Gaius Baltar moves to Syfy's Eureka.

Articles

• Rich Horton's Summary: "Novella Chapbooks", 2009.
• Tansy Rayner Roberts on Stealth Worldbuilding & the Other Kind of Standalone Fantasy.
• Ian McDonald on Spingate.
• Josh Jasper On Rocket Ships and Palm Trees.
• Gary Westfahl on Searching for Tomorrow: A Second Look at FlashForward.
• Jo Walton on Why reviewers don't often say "This sucks".
• Brandon Sanderson on Can you do that in a fantasy novel?
• Judith Tarr on Ways to Trash Your Riding Career: The More You Know...
• Editorial Ass on What's a standard submission process like? (Your Questions continued).
• William Shunn on Publishers who ask for camera-ready copy.
• Courtney Milan on Lying.
• Rachelle Gardner on Common Questions Answered.
• S.C. Butler on Write What You Don't Know.
• Artists: Create a Sci-Fi Interior Using Digital Painting Techniques.
• GD Falksen on REPO! The Genetic Opera vs. Repo Men.
• Nina Munteneau on Why District 9 Should Have Been the Most Important Movie of 2009.
• The History of Black Comic Book Heroes Through the Ages, Part 1 & Part 2. [via The Cultural Gutter] 
• Daniel Peretti on Superman as Science Fiction.
• Karen Healey on Writing From A Strange Land: The Imaginative Displacement of Margaret Mahy.
• The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Podcast, Episode 11: The People vs. George Lucas!
• Mike Brotherton on Interstellar Worldbuilding.
  
• Fantasy & SciFi Lovin' News & Reviews on Hey! Your Politics Got Into My Science Fiction!
  
• Philip Palmer asks Is Urban Fantasy Really ALL About Sex?
  

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Posted by Charles Tan at Tuesday March 16, 2010 at 12:05 AM

Ari Marmell is the author of several works of horror and fantasy tie-in fiction - including Agents of Artifice, a Magic: the Gathering novel-as well as roughly ten-billion-and-one role-playing game supplements for Dungeons & Dragons, Vampire: the Masquerade, and others. The Conqueror's Shadow, available from Random House's Spectra imprint, is his first published non-tie-in novel. You can find Ari online at www.mouseferatu.com.

With the possible exceptions of horror and superhero comic books (which, though predating the field of "contemporary fantasy," are arguably as much a subset thereof as they are a subset of sci-fi), the fantasy genre seems to contain a greater proportion of antiheroes than any other. From Elric of Melniboné to Vlad Taltos, Thomas Covenant to Xena, Locke Lamora to the Black Company, Jack Sparrow to-if I dare hope to place him in such infamous company-my own Corvis Rebaine, fantasy is absolutely replete with protagonists who are either former villains trying to make good, or who still would be villains if their tales were told from only a slightly altered perspective.

It almost goes without saying that for such a character to work, they must be given redeeming traits to make up for, or at least explain, their more villainous aspects. Vlad Taltos limits his "evil" to (more or less) those who have earned it. Jack Sparrow occasionally tries to do the right thing, and he's just a whole lot of fun. I gave Corvis Rebaine strong motivations for his attempted conquest, and a family he loves and wants to protect once he's "retired" from his martial life. I could write an entire (very lengthy) essay on all the various ways to make an antihero sympathetic, but A) that's a little broader than I wanted to get, and B) I think most of you would lynch me if I tried to make you read that much on a computer screen.

So, let's put that aside for just a moment and talk about something that's going to seem unrelated, but bear with me. My mind's tricksy that way, Precious.

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Posted by Ari Marmell at Monday March 15, 2010 at 11:29 AM

REVIEW SUMMARY: Tim Burton gives Lewis Carroll's classic stories a passionless, visually bland update.

MY RATING:

BRIEF SYNOPSIS: On the day of her engagement to Hamish Ascot, nineteen-year-old Alice Kingsley follows a white rabbit in a waistcoat down a rabbit hole leading to Wonderland, where, with the help of an eccentric group of characters, she must defeat the Red Queen.

MY REVIEW:
PROS: A good cast with occasionally interesting flourishes of character and scenery. And it's hard not to love Alan Rickman's hookah-smoking caterpillar.
CONS: Uninvolving and, despite the 3D rendering, often flat.

It shouldn't have been this way. Given the cast involved, given the director's knack for the grotesque and the surreal, to say nothing of the source material, this Alice in Wonderland should have been a marvel, a milestone in the development of fantasy cinema. After all, the logical games and off-the-wall situations presented by Lewis Carroll in both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There parallel much of the nonsense language and narrative dissociation one sometimes feels living in this first decade of the twenty-first century. It is also, in a way, the movie Tim Burton has been preparing to make since Frankenweenie. Whether or not his movies have taken place in Pee Wee's Playhouse or Gotham City, whether or not he has followed such characters as Edward Scissorhands or Sweeny Todd, he has always taken his audience to some zip code deep in his own Wonderland.

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Posted by Derek Johnson at Monday March 15, 2010 at 6:29 AM

Ari Marmell, author of the upcoming fantasy novel The Conqueror's Shadow, is offering his gothic horror/fantasy Black Crusade available as a free PDF download. Ari says:

Black Crusade was originally written to be one of the first of the Ravenloft: Dominion line of novels from Wizards of the Coast. "Ravenloft" is the name of a gothic horror/fantasy setting. Although Ravenloft was created for the Dungeons and Dragons game, the Dominion line was meant to give it a new flavor-specifically, rather than drawing characters and domains from various D&D worlds, it would draw them from various periods of real-world history. In the case of , that period was the First Crusade.

The line of books was canceled before Black Crusade could be published, though it was released serially online. Now you can download the complete novel as a PDF file.

[via Grasping for the Wind]

Note: Tune in later today for a guest-post by Ari Marmell about The Conqueror's Shadow!

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Posted by John DeNardo at Monday March 15, 2010 at 12:25 AM

Disney knows a winner when they see it, and so far, Tron Legacy has 'winner' written all over it. To help advertise the upcoming movie, Disney has rented a billboard on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles where, each month until release, they will be displaying a new Tron Legacy related advertisement. So far they've release three for us to enjoy. Take a gander!

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Posted by JP Frantz at Monday March 15, 2010 at 12:15 AM

A new batch of free fiction has been linked to by still-awesome resource Free Speculative Fiction Online. Some dupes from our past Free Fiction posts, but hey...never look a gift story in the mouth. Am I right?

1. Gregory Benford "The Final Now" (Tor.com, March 2010)
2. Craig DeLancey "Dark Matter" (Cosmos Magazine, June 2009)
3. Paul Di Filippo "The Perfect Lover" (Nature, April 2006)
4. Simon Ings Painkillers (Bloomsbury, 2000)
5. Mary Robinette Kowal "Beyond the Garden Close" (Apex, March 2010)
6. Mary Robinette Kowal "The Bride Replete" (Apex, March 2010)
7. Matthew Kressel "The History Within Us" (Clarkesworld #42, March 2010)
8. Jay Lake "The Dead Man's Child" (Cosmos Magazine, 2006)
9. Chris Lawson "Empathy" (Cosmos Magazine, April 2006)
10. Marissa Lingen "Things We Sell to Tourists" (Aeon #6, March 2006)
11. Brian Lumley "The Nonesuch" (Subterranean, Winter 2010)
12. Alex Dally MacFarlane "The City of Lobster, or, The Dancers on Anchorage St." (Fantasy Magazine, March 2010)
13. Alex Dally MacFarlane "The Devonshire Arms" (Clarkesworld #32, May 2009)
14. Alex Dally MacFarlane "The Notebook of my Favourite Skin-Trees" (Daybreak Magazine, March 2010)
15. Sandra McDonald "Tupac Shakur and the End of the World" (Futurismic, March 2010)
16. Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling "Junk DNA" (Asimov's, January 2003)
17. Gord Sellar "Alone With Gandhari" (Clarkesworld #42, March 2010, also in audio)
18. Eric James Stone "The Ashes of His Fathers" (Analog, May 2008)
19. Eric James Stone "Upgrade" (Analog, December 2006)
20. David Walton "Letting Go" (Jim Baen's Universe Vol. 3 No. 2, August 2008)

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Posted by John DeNardo at Monday March 15, 2010 at 12:14 AM

In the interest of full disclosure, here are the books and stuff we received this week.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Monday March 15, 2010 at 12:11 AM

Interviews/Profiles

• The Author Hour interviews R.A. Salvatore.
• Hour of the Wolf interviews N.K. Jemisin (podcast).
• A Journey Round My Skull interviews Franz Rottensteiner.
• Hub Fiction interviews Joe R. Lansdale.
• Odyssey Workshop interviews Alexander Jablokav.
• Embrace the Shadows interviews Laura Bickle.
• Neal Asher answers reader questions by video.
  

News

• Taos Toolbox Is Looking for Applications.
• Milford SF Writers' Workshop 2010.
• It's a madhouse!  A madhouse! Planet of the Apes prequel film confirmed.
  

Articles

• Victoria Strauss on Content Mills-Why Aspiring Writers Should Avoid Them.
• Tansy Rayner Roberts on My Top Ten Super-Solo-Unsequelled-Standalone Fantasy Novels.
• Jacqui Hayes on Talking squids in outer space.
• Arachne Jericho on Thoughts on the Cultural Appropriation of Geek Culture and Race.
• Christchurch City Libraries Blog on Gaiman, Lanagan: doing it for the kids, not the librarians and The most surprising thing you will ever hear Simon Schama say.
• Talula on Readers + Writers week - Neil Gaiman and Margo Lanagan.
• Larry Nolen on Can a gabacho understand non-gabacho writings?
• Matt Staggs on All You Zombies: Taking a Look at the Latest Zombie Fiction.
• Ari Marmell on What if Sauron had Won?
• MK Hobson on The paradox of diminishing competency.
• Ursula K. Le Guin on Art, Information, Theft, and Confusion.
• Brenda Clough on Ways to Trash Your Writing Career: Writers Block.
• Sherwood Smith on Kids and a Sense of History.
• Kim Malo on Readers.
• Justine Larbalestier on How to Get Published? Don't Ask Me.
• Eric Rosenfield on Where's my Foreign Pop Fiction?
• The Intern on The Ten Best Things You Can Do For Your Manuscript.
• The New York Times on Living With Music: A Playlist by Michael Moorcock.
• Lucius Shepard on Cultural Appropriation.
• Joel Shepherd asks: So How Flawed Is Too Flawed?
• Mark Tiedemann reviews Daryl Gregory's The Devil's Alphabet.
• Lawrence Person on Dan Simmons Signing Followup (With Pics) and responds to Abe Book's recent Collectible Philip K. Dick List with his article Abe Books Doesn't Know Dick.
  
• "Society's obsession with video and online gaming has advanced to the point that virtual environments are indistinguishable from physical ones" says the description for this video titled Play. [via J.M. McDermott]
  
• Triplanetary shares a video of The Beard Master.  Um...thanks?  :)

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Posted by Charles Tan at Monday March 15, 2010 at 12:05 AM

Starts at about 7:30 minutes in...

[via The Cinemated Man]

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Posted by John DeNardo at Sunday March 14, 2010 at 12:20 AM

• @Solaris: "One of Our Bastards is Missing" by Paul Cornell (PDF, from The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Three)


• Flurb Issue #9 (Spring-Summer, 2010) features fiction by Kek, Adam Callaway, Rudy Rucker, Paul Di Filippo, Robert Guffey, Philip Harris, Richard A. Lupoff, Alex Roston, Jessy Randall, Chistopher B. Shay, Mari Mitchell, and Kathe Koja & Carter Scholz


• @Clockwork Phoenix: "Each Thing I Show You Is A Piece of My Death" by Gemma Files and Stephen J. Barringer [PDF, via Mike Allen]


• @Strange Horizons: "Who in Mortal Chains" by Claire Humphrey


• Beneath Ceaseless Skies #38 features fiction by Richard Parks, Alys Sterling, and Catherine Mintz.


• @Diversions of the Groovy Kind:: Day of the Triffids, Part 1 (comic book scan).


• @Concatenation: "Takeaway" by Tony Ballantyne

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Posted by John DeNardo at Sunday March 14, 2010 at 12:14 AM

News

• Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews is coming in June, a book described as "A definitive collection of interviews with one of America's most famous writers, covering his life, faith, friends, politics, and visions of the future." [via File 770]
• RevolutionSF Contest : Win The Best of Joe R. Lansdale.
• William Shatner has launched his own social networking website called MyOuterSpace.com. By definition, it's Shatastic!

Articles

• Elizabeth Moon on Two Trick Pony.
• Paul Witcover on The Role of an Artist.
• Marty Halpern on Is Anybody Out There? -- Revealed
• S For Doom's Author of the Week: Patricia McKillip. Which of her books or stories are your favorites, and why? Let them know!

Fun Stuff

• Charlie Jane Anders on Comic-Book Costumes That Actually Look Good In Movies. [via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine]
• Visions of Paradise on The Most acclaimed F&SF of 2009.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Sunday March 14, 2010 at 12:05 AM

Recorded at Boskone...

[via Singularity Hub]

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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday March 13, 2010 at 12:25 AM

SyFy, in its infinite wisdom, likes to take months long breaks in the middle of its high profile series so it shouldn't come as a shock they did so with SGU. In case you forgot, SGU ended with, well, the trailer pretty much picks up (and spoils!) where the last episode ended. Take a gander:

Finally, finally!, something interesting looks to happen. You can see my feelings on the first half of SGU here but I have to say I like what I see in the trailer. Aliens and some combat can only help spice up the otherwise dreary and moribund story we've seen so far.

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Posted by JP Frantz at Saturday March 13, 2010 at 12:20 AM

Subterranean Press has posted the table of Contents for Joe R. Lansdale's upcoming collection Dead Man's Road which contains his stories about Jedidiah Mercer, an Old West Reverend who deals with zombies, ghouls, werewolves, Lovecraftian monsters and kobolds.

• Dead in the West
• "Deadman's Road"
• "The Gentleman's Hotel"
• "The Crawling Sky"
• "The Dark Down There"

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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday March 13, 2010 at 12:13 AM

The BBC will be airing a new 6-part post-apocalyptic comedic adaptation of Dark Horse Comic's Apocalypse Nerd by Peter Bagge.

[via Quiet Earth]

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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday March 13, 2010 at 12:12 AM

Norilana Books has posted the table of contents for their upcoming Tanith Lee collection Sounds and Furies, which collects "seven singular, gorgeous tales of lingering atmospheric horror from the masterful pen of Tanith Lee":

1. "Where All Things Perish"
2. "Midday People"
3. "Cold Fire"
4. "Crying in the Rain"
5. "We All Fall Down"
6. "The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald"
7. "The Isle is Full of Noises"

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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday March 13, 2010 at 12:11 AM

Interviews & Profiles

• @SciFi Scanner: Jude Law and Forest Whitaker (Repo Men, based on Eric Garcia's awesome book, The Repossession Mambo)
• Mark Charan Newton interviews editor Julie Crisp. [via Neal Asher]
• John Everson interviews Jeffrey Thomas.
• Retro! A 1975 interview with Leigh Brackett.

News

• SF critic, editor, and convention organizer Cheryl Morgan refused Entry to U.S. [via Locus Online]
• Richard L. Tierney and Jane Yolen are this year's Science Fiction Poetry Association Grandmaster Nominees. [via Mike Allen]
• John Klima is trying to earn money in a Pepsi Refresh grant to start a magazine to showcase underrepresented cultures in science fiction. [via World SF]
• An Overview of International Science Fiction/Fantasy in 2009 compiled by Jeff VanderMeer.
• Summer Glau joins NBC's new superhero show.

Articles

• Brenda Cooper on The Quest for Longevity.
• Joel Shepherd on Pagan Gods and Superheroes.
• Charles Stross on Post mortem.
• @NYT: Living With Music: A Playlist by Michael Moorcock.
• @Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Peter Straub, Ian Whates, Ken MacLeod, Alastair Reynolds.
• Boing Boing on J.G. Ballard's Bang Wallop.

Fun Stuff

• Classic SF movies rendered as Russian folk-art woodcuts. [via Boing Boing via io9]
• Suvudu lists Top 10 Most Awkward, Strange and Hilarious PSAs Featuring Super Heroes, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Characters.
• Geek Sugar lists 10 Geeky TV Shows You Should Be Watching.
• AbeBooks lists Collectible Philip K. Dick Books.
• Philip K. Dick's letter to Jeff Walker regarding Blade Runner.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday March 13, 2010 at 12:05 AM

REVIEW SUMMARY: An Epic Space Opera tale.

MY RATING:

BRIEF SYNOPSIS: An interesting, epic space opera revenge tale that weaves together separate story lines into an excellent read.

MY REVIEW:
PROS: Shadowline pulls together three distinct story lines, weaving them together over the course of the story, in an interesting universe of interstellar politics.
CONS: The world building here isn't up to the same level as other Space Opera novels, leaving a bit to be desired.
BOTTOM LINE: This is a very good read, with an excellent story and series of characters.

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Posted by Andrew Liptak at Friday March 12, 2010 at 12:29 AM

It's official, after the mess that was the latest Superman movie, Christopher Nolan will be "shepherding" a new rebooted Superman movie to completion. Let's hope that Brandon Routh's metrosexual Supes doesn't make a return and that there are no giant spiders (the fiercest killers in the animal kingdom) for Superman to fight. Nolan won't be writing or directing but hopefully some of the same sensibilities that made the new Batman movies so good will rub off on the new Superman.

With concrete info hard to come by, we're opening it up to you. What would you like to see from a new Superman movie? Who would you like to see as Superman, Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen and Lex Luthor? Do you even want to see Luthor as the villain? What about a story line you'd like to see? Should they redo the origin story or come up with something different (I'd assume a redone origin story is in order.) Should John Williams return with his kick ass score?

What say you?

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Posted by JP Frantz at Friday March 12, 2010 at 12:25 AM

Angela Slatter has posted the table of contents for a new paranormal romance anthology, Scary Kisses:

1. "The Anstruther Woman" by Nicole R. Murphy
2. "Fade Away" by Ian Nichols
3. "Bread and Circuses" by Felicity Dowker
4. "Black Widow" by Shona Husk
5. "The February Dragon" by Angela Slatter and L.L. Hannett
6. "Growing Silence" by Matt Tighe
7. "The Hidden One" by Astrid Cooper
8. "A Darker Shade of Pale" by David Bofinger
9. "The Valley" by Martin Livings
10. "Cursebreaker: the Welsh Widow and the Wandering Wooer" by Kyla Ward
11. "Heat" by Donna Maree Hanson
12. "Phaedra" by Bruce Golden
13. "Date with a Vampire" by Annette Backshall
14. "Pride and Tentacles" by D.C. White

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Posted by John DeNardo at Friday March 12, 2010 at 12:16 AM

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Posted by John DeNardo at Friday March 12, 2010 at 12:15 AM

From a press release by The Science Fiction Writers of America:

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Posted by John DeNardo at Friday March 12, 2010 at 12:12 AM

Interviews/Profiles

• Teenage Reader interviews Lisa Mantchev.
  
• T.J. McIntyre interviews Lisa Hannett.
• StarShipSofa interviews Norman Spinrad (2008 podcast).
• Fangoria interviews Brian Keene.
• Nethspace interviews Blake Charlton.
• Mark Charan Newton interviews Julie Crisp.
• Wizads of the Coast Community profiles Erin M. Evans.
• Matt Staggs interviews Lev Grossman.
• BSC Review interviews Walter Greatshell.
• Grinding to Valhalla interviews Janice Hardy.
• John Scalzi's The Big Idea: Skyler White.
• Cover to Cover interviews F. Paul Wilson (podcast).
• The Agony Column interviews Lou Anders (podcast). [Thanks for the shout-out, Lou!]

News

• The Little Death of Crossed Genres: Under New Management.
• Rick Novy announces a new near-future science fiction invitational anthology: 2020 Visions. [via M-Brane]
  
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies #38 is out. (via Paul Jessup)
• Book View Cafe Welcomes Chaz Brenchley.
• Harlem Casting for New Reality Show (book editor). (via Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
• Tor Books is giving away 200 free copies of Cory Doctorow's For The Win, for young reviewers.
• Universal launches Battlestar Galactica Online.
• Vote and Help Make A Science Fiction Magazine Showcasing Underrepresented Cultures.
  

Articles

• N.K. Jemisin on What especially pisses me off about Spinrad's article...
• Rose Fox on A Whiff of Colonialism.
• Clint Harris on The Infamous Spinrad Article.
• Larry Nolen on Norman Spinrad and the latest kerfluffle about international SF, with positive remedies.
• Juliette Wade on The Myth of the Native Speaker.
  
• Charles Tan on The Failure of Spinrad's "Third World Worlds" from a Technical Perspective.
• The World SF News Blog on The Dilemma of the Term "World SF" Redux.
• Largehearted Boy on Book Notes - Various Authors ("Phantom").
• Nancy Jane Moore on Brave New (Writing) World: The End of the Throwaway Book?
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch on The Freelancer's Survival Guide: Risks (Part One).
• Nishi Shawl on Avatar.
• John Scalzi @ AMC: So Why Did The Hurt Locker Beat Out Avatar for Best Picture?
  
• Hal Duncan On Sublime.
• Jim C. Hines on Strong Women Characters.
• Tansy Rayner Roberts on To Be Continued.
• Ben Peek on Notes on Time.
• Heather Tomlinson on Lutins and Tengu and Were-Bears. Oh, my.
• Alaya Johnson on "What My Dad Said".
• Nicola Morgan on Outline and Synopsis and Pointy Things About Punctuation.
• Nathan Bransford on Choose Your Own E-book Adventure.
• Alan Rinzler on How self publishing can lead to a real book deal.
• /Film asks Who Would Be Cast in The Coen Brothers' Star Wars?
• Jeff VanderMeer on An Overview of International Science Fiction/Fantasy in 2009.

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Posted by Charles Tan at Friday March 12, 2010 at 12:05 AM