Tor.com quickly established itself as one of the web’s premiere online venues of high quality free fiction. Like they did last year, they are collecting some of the best stories from their archives during the last 12 months. And they’re offering for in DRM-Free, eBook format for the low, low price of nothing.
This past weekend, several speculative fiction luminaries gathered for An Evening in Honor of Gene Wolfe, a night to honor the man himself. I wish I could have been there, but since I couldn’t be, this video of the festivities, taken by William Shunn, will have to suffice.
It’s a fun game of Count the Authors!
[via Michael Swanwick, another Merry-go-roundabout! Read his writeup of the event here.]
Kathryn Cramer has posted the table of contents for Year’s Best SF 17, the upcoming anthology she co-edited with David G. Hartwell being published on May 29, 2012:
“The Best Science Fiction of the Year Three” by Ken MacLeod
“Dolly” by Elizabeth Bear
“Altogether Elsewhere, Vast Herds of Raindeer” by Ken Liu
“Tethered” by Mercurio Rivera
“Wahala” by Nnedi Okorafor
“Laika’s Ghost” by Karl Schroeder
“Ragnarok” by Paul Park
“Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders
“And Weep Like Alexander” by Neil Gaiman
“The Middle of Somewhere” by Judith Moffett
“Mercies” by Gregory Benford
“The Education of Junior Number 12″ by Madeline Ashby
“Our Candidate” by Robert Reed
“Thick Water” by Karen Heuler
“The War Artist” by Tony Ballantyne
“The Master of the Aviary” by Bruce Sterling
“Home Sweet Bi’Ome” by Pat MacEwan
“For I Have Lain Me Down on the Stone of Lonliness and I’ll Not Be Back Again” by Michael Swanwick
“The Ki-anna” by Gwyneth Jones
“Eliot Wrote” by Nancy Kress
“The Nearest Thing” by Genevieve Valentine
“The Vector Alphabet of Intersellar Travel” by Yoon Ha Lee
Kathryn Cramer has posted the table of contents for Year’s Best SF 15, the latest in the anthology she co-edits with David G. Hartwell which goes on sale May 2010:
“Infinities” by Vandana Singh
“This Peaceable Land; or the Unbearable Vision of Harriet Beacher Stowe” by Robert Charles Wilson
“The Unstrung Zither” by Yoon Ha Lee
“Black Swan” by Bruce Sterling
“Exegesis” by Nancy Kress
“Erosion” by Ian Creasey
“Collision” by Gwyneth Jones
“Donovan Sent Me” by Gene Wolfe
“The Calculus Plague” by Marissa K. Lingen
“The Island” by Peter Watts
“One of Our Bastards Is Missing” by Paul Cornell
“Lady of the White-Spired City” by Sarah L. Edwards
“The Highway Code” by Brian Stableford
“On the Destruction of Copenhagen by the War Machines of the Merfolk” by Peter M. Ball
“The Fixation” by Alastair Reynolds
“In Our Garden” by Brenda Cooper
“Blocked” by Geoff Ryman
“The Last Apostle” by Michael Cassut
“Another Life” by Charles Oberndorf
“The Consciousness Problem” by Mary Robinette Kowal
@The Guardian, Tola Onanuga tells us Why District 9 isn’t racist against Nigerians: “If District 9 ‘hates Nigerians’, as a Facebook group would have it, then it hates its powerful, white characters even more.”
Tor.com — not Tor the publisher — debuts its first title as a separate publishing entity: Year’s Best Fantasy 9 edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. (Table of Contents here.)
“DC Comics is being renamed DC Entertainment, and will as such focus on all media, not just comics.” [via Topless Robot]
Halo-8 Entertainment has slated Matt Pizzolo and Brian Giberson to create an “illustrated film” adaptation in early 2010 of Xombie; Reanimated, a horror/sci-fi adventure comic book created by James Farr, published by Devil’s Due Publishing.
Tor.com quickly established itself as one of the web’s premiere online venues of high quality free fiction. Like they did last year, they are collecting some of the best stories from their archives during the last 12 months. And they’re offering for in DRM-Free, eBook format for the low, low price of nothing.
