The StarShipSofa podcast is honored to present a reading of “Vinegar Peace“…a SF story written by Michael Bishop for his son Jamie Bishop who died two years [...]
Interviews & Profiles: The latest Odyssey podcast features Allen Steele talking about world building. Mur Lafferty podcast-interviews John Kessel. [via Charles Tan] [...]
Where would Fantasy be without gods to bicker, argue, and meddle with the fate of mortals? We asked the following of this week’s panelists, who responded with less [...]
Nebula Awards weekend also saw another set of awards being given away: Analog Science Fiction and Fact‘s AnLab Awards and the Asimov’s Readers’ Awards: Here [...]
The finalists for the 35th Annual Origins Awards have been announced, here are the fiction nominees: Hungerblade by Robin D Laws (Red Juggernaut Inc.) Infernal Sorceress by [...]
The Art of Penguin Science Fiction. Interviews & Profiles: At Locus Online, Graham Joyce interview excerpts. [via Charles Tan] At Tor, Lou Anders interviews Matthew [...]
The Star Trek hype train rams the station next week and Vince Horiuchi of The Salt Lake Tribune laments the lack of good movies made from TV shows. While Trek has had a lot [...]
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Tell us which cover you like best and why. Go! Books shown here: Berserker Lord by David Farland (Artist: Kekai Kotaki) The [...]
This is why Walter Bishop the most entertaining (in an insane, non sequitur way) character on TV. If you remember the Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy bits on Saturday Night Live, [...]
REVIEW SUMMARY: Fun, piecemeal excursions into what it might be like after you die. MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Forty thought-experiments about what happens in the afterlife. [...]
@Manybooks.net: The February 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science. Thoughtcrime Experiments, edited by Sumana Harihareswara and Leonard Richardson, a brand new [...]
The finalists for the 2009 Locus Award have been announced: SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL Matter, Iain M. Banks (Orbit UK) [See SF Signal reviews] City at the End of Time, Greg Bear [...]
Interviews & Profiles: @SciFi Scanner: Battle for Terra Director Aristomenis Tsirbas. @Sci-Fi Fan Letter: Robert J. Sawyer. @Bibliophile Stalker: Paul Graham Raven. @SCI [...]
Sad news via SF Site… Author Tom Deitz has passed away. Deitz was the author of the Soulsmith Trilogy (Soulsmith, Dreambuilder, and Wordwright) and also [...]
Memesis Virtualis proprietor Frank Dudley recently asked me to participate in a meme he has going: What are your recent sf/f book recommendations? Check out my response at [...]