SF Tidbits for 1/7/08
By John DeNardo |
Monday, January 7th, 2008 at
12:33 am
- Boom Studios‘ post-apocalyptic comic North Wind is being released online for free to coincide with it’s release in meat space.
- Locus Online has posted Cory Doctorow’s article on Artist Rights from the January 2008 issue of Locus magazine. (See also: Locus Table of Contents.)
- The fine and daring folks over at Not if You Were the Last Short Story on Earth have completed their daunting mission of reading every short story published in 2007. The end result? Besides being enlisted as readers by Editor Jonathan Strahan, they have compiled a handy list of Recommended 2007 Short Fiction.
- Speaking of Jonathan Strahan, Stainless Steel Droppings reviews Strahan’s Eclipse One and loved, loved, loved it.
- Recently free fiction at ManyBooks.net: “The Asa Rule” by Jay Williams.
- The group blog Fangs, Fur, & Fey has been added to the list of sf/f authors who blog.
- Fantasy Book Critic interviews Robin Hobb.
- Dark Horizons lists The Worst Films Of 2007. It’s a big list.
- Modern Mechanix (Yesterday’s tomorrow, today!) revisits the 1939 vision of a Skyscraper Airport for City of Tomorrow. [via Texas Best Grok]
- Tim Rickard’s Brewster Rockit tackles Star Wars.
- Artist Frank Wu talks about Fanzines, Fan Writer, and Fan Artist Hugo Awards categories. I agree wholeheartedly — SF Signal should win a Hugo. (OK, I’m paraphrasing…but I can read between the lines. Poorly…but I can do it.
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Has anyone read the Ebook WADE OF AQUITAINE BY BEN PARRIS?? It is the first book in a series and is available on Amazon right now.
Check it out: http://www.amazon.com/Wade-Aquitaine%253a-Speculative-Fiction-Aquitaine/dp/B00113QV76/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1199723989&sr=1-1&tag=sfsi0c-20
This story has all the advantages of science fiction combined with the fun and detailed setting of a fantasy book. I was totally intrigued from page 1 and my attention was captivated right up until the last page.
The story starts out in the conventional world and then takes the reader and Wade on a journey back in time through Wade’s synesthete mind. It is a story that truly grabs the readers and takes them along for an emotion-packed ride.
Anyone else read this book??
Thanks for the mention!
The Worst movies list was interesting, all the more so since there were some movies on there that I thoroughly enjoyed. But I agreed with about 95% of them, so I figured that isn’t bad.
And hey, you’ve got my vote for a Hugo!
The fanzine and fan writer Hugo categories are becoming outdated pretty darned fast, and are definitely due for revision. Look at the official definition of a fanzine on the Hugo nomination ballot: “Any generally available non-professional publication… which has published 4 or more issues at least one of which appeared in 2007.” SF Signal, though it certainly deserves to be nominated, doesn’t techincally meet the definition because it hasn’t “published” any “issues” at all. The terminology simply doesn’t apply to blogs, which are (dare I say it?) more important to fandom today than print fanzines. Either the fanzine category needs to be revised or a new category needs to be created. But don’t worry, guys– I’ll put you on my nomination form anyway, and hope that the rules catch up.