SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 10/30/07

SF Tidbits for 10/30/07

Solaris Books plans to serialize Three Unbroken (Chris Roberson's second novel in his Celestial Empire sequence, after The Dragon's Nine Sons) on their website for free, at a rate of two chapters per week. Three Unbroken is based on the sixty-four elements of the I-Ching, and "follows the lives of three soldiers from their induction into the armed forces to their eventual fight for survival on the frontline."

David Louis Edelman shows off the cool cover of Multireal, the sequel to Infoquake.

SciFi Wire profiles Brandon Sanderson, author of Mistborn: The Well of Ascension.

Jeff VanderMeer talks with George R.R. Martin (Dreamsongs). "Like any writer, I'd like to think I've gotten better. I know I've gotten longer."

Neth Space has 5 questions each for Michael Moorcock (The Metatemporal Detective) and Joe Abercrombie (The Blade Itself).

John Joseph Adams has guest-edited the Pirate issue of Shimmer magazine.

The blog LiveJournal community for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America asks: Which short fiction magazines do you read?

John Ringo is quoted in the article Science Fiction: How the Cult Became Mainstream, which says that it's because sf "predicts the future of today's hot-button issues."

The Guild Cafe has the Charlie Stross article Life's a Game and them You Die, which attempts to explain how online games will affect our culture over the next couple of decades.

L.E. Modesitt, Jr. explains why the singularity won't happen. "It won't happen. Not even close. Why not? First, because such visions are based on technology, not on humanity. Second, they're based on a western European/North American cultural chauvinism."

Just to be clear, what you refer to as "the blog for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America" is actually a LiveJournal community SFWA uses for outreach to members and non-members alike. And anyone who is a member of the LJ community can post, even if they're not a member of SFWA. So it's not as if SFWA is running any sort of official survey over on the LiveJournal. (Saying "The blog...asks" makes it sound more official than it really is.)

Posted by Michael A. Burstein on Tuesday October 30, 2007 at 7:33 AM