- John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly told SCI FI Wire that their latest anthology, Rewired, is an attempt to define a burgeoning subgenre of science fiction: "post-cyberpunk" fiction.
- As part of the launch for his new book, Postsingular Tor Books, in conjunction with Rudy Rucker, are staging a three-day exhibition and sale of his paintings at the Live Worms Gallery in San Francisco.
- Adventures in Scifi Publishing podcast-interviews Larry Niven.
- Audible has released James Patrick Kelly's StoryPod 3.0. [via Locus Online]
- Free fiction: ManyBooks.net offers "One-Shot" by James Blish. "You can do a great deal if you have enough data, and enough time to compute on it, by logical methods. But given the situation that neither data nor time is adequate, and an answer must be produced ... what do you do?"
- Early next year, Subterranean Press will give birth to a new imprint, Far Territories, that focuses on popularly-priced trade paperbacks and hardcovers, with distribution in the chain and independent bookstores.
- John C. Wright looks at Donatism and Atheism in Fugitives of Chaos. (See SF Signal review.)
- TheoFantastique interviews Dr. James McGrath about religion in science fiction. [via Exploring Our Matrix]
- Mundane-SF asks : Why do Science Fiction writers make stuff up instead of looking at science? "Science Fiction stories should not pale into insignificance in comparison to an equivalent Science story. They should stand up for themselves."
- E.E. Knight lists some writing blunders.
- MovieDigger lists 10 Dumb Moments in Sci-Fi Cinema.
- SciFi Ranter Girl lists The Top 5 Most Fashionable Science Fiction TV Shows.
- Top 5 offers The Top 9 Worst Moments in Sci-Fi History. "The day Worf started dating Yoko Ono and broke up the Enterprise bridge crew."
- Random Good Stuff has The Hidden Zombie Game - shoot the matching zombie...
- Find of the Week goes to Jayme Lynn Blaschke for this Blue Oyster Cult video for "Black Blade" "Veteran of the Psychic Wars", a song co-written with sf author Michael Moorcock.
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Posted by John DeNardo at Saturday October 13, 2007 at 1:04 AM
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Actually that's Veteran of the Psychic Wars by BOC, another tune from that era co-written by Moorcock. John SHirley did a lot of their lyrics for the later albums.
Posted by Jeff P on Saturday October 13, 2007 at 9:26 AM at 9:26 AM
That EE Knight link is broke.
Posted by Vera Wang on Saturday October 13, 2007 at 1:14 PM at 1:14 PM
Gah! Song title updated and link fixed. Thanks, folks!
Posted by John on Saturday October 13, 2007 at 2:39 PM at 2:39 PM
"...define a burgeoning subgenre of science fiction..."
Gack. Not another burgeoning sub-genre.
Posted by Fred Kiesche on Sunday October 14, 2007 at 8:59 AM at 8:59 AM
Thanks for the love fellas!
Posted by SciFi Ranter Girl on Monday October 15, 2007 at 7:31 PM at 7:31 PM