SF Tidbits for 12/31/08
By John DeNardo |
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 at
12:05 am
- Interviews and Profiles:
- The Nebula Awards website interviews Gene Wolfe (An Evil Guest): “The purely commercial writer writes for the editor. The purely artistic writer writes for himself or herself. I write for the reader.”
- Blogging the Muse interviews Elizabeth Moon (The Speed of Dark).
- Walker of Worlds interviews Marianne de Pierres (The Parrish Plessis series, Dark Space, and Chaos Space).
- SciFi Wire profiles David Oppegaard (The Suicide Collectors).
- SFX interviews Sue Lange on e-publishing.
- Free Fiction [courtesy of QuasarDragon]:
- Part three of the weekly web serial “Kat and Mouse: Guns for Hire” is up
- Audio Fiction:
- @Escape Pod: “Standards” by Richard K. Lyon, read by Frank Key.
- @LibriVox: The Sea Fairies by L. Frank Baum, read by Judy Bieber.
- Over at Tor.com, Irene Gallo looks at the history of illustrating Conan the Barbarian
- SciFi Wire shares a bunch of Coraline featurettes.
- Gabriel McKee at SF Gospel lists 14 awesome things about 2008. (Sadly, I am not one of them.)
- Terry Pratchett…excuse me…that would be “Sir” Terry Pratchett has just been knighted. [via Post-Weird Thoughts via Cheryl's Mewsings]
Have a Happy New Year everyone! 
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Happy New Year for you and all the gang at SF Signal, John!
John, you’re an awesome thing about *every* year! Happy new year!
Asimov’s is one of the fourteen things?
This is a joke, right?
This is a magazine that since Gardner’s retirement has consistently published stories which cater to stereotypes of midwestern behavior as well as cliched antiwar stories, mixed in with a healthy dose of the standard issue polemics which are rampant in the field. I finally let my subscription lapse after two incredibly offensive stories in 2007. Skimming those issues that do manifest themselves on magazine stacks in my town as well as reading the reviews in the field have not demonstrated any sign that this year was any better than last.
It seems to this Midwesterner that Asimov’s has become a magazine mainly intended for consumption by New Yorkers and those who dearly wish to emulate New Yorkers.
And it desperately needs a new editor or those subscription stats are going to continue to decline. Most folks in my neck of the woods, when I hand them a copy, thumb through it, read a few paragraphs, and put it back.
The usual response? “Boring.”
S. F. Murphy