Fabio Fernandes is an SFF writer living in São Paulo, Brazil. He has several stories published in online venues in the US, the UK, New Zealand, Portugal, Romenia, and Brazil. He also contributed to Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's Steampunk II:Steampunk Reloaded, Southern Weirdo: Reconstruction, and The Apex Book of World SF Vol. 2.
2013 was a good year to me. On the story front, the first semester wasn’t a strong one; too much work at my day job at the university (and the non-stop work translating SF [...]
Today’s Mind Meld was suggested by Orbit’s publicist. [Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] The movie The Princess Bride is celebrating its [...]
[Today’s Mind Meld was suggested by an SF Signal reader, Gary Farber, who is here among our guests. Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] In the [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] This year’s Hugo award ceremony was a very interesting one, regarding gender and ethnicity. Most of the [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Is there any subject science fiction hasn’t turned its eyes (or feelers, or antennae) to? Maybe not, but with [...]
Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Kim Stanley Robinson is an American science fiction writer best known for his Mars trilogy. His novels delve into ecological and [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] The recent United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio 2012 or Rio+20, where the heads [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Late last year, after John Ottinger wrote a passionate review of John C. Wright’s Count to a Trillion, he was [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] In recent years, the ascension of several former Third World countries to a better economical and geopolitical [...]
Djibril al-Ayad is general editor of The Future Fire, an online magazine of social-political speculative fiction. In the past, TFF published themed issues on Feminist SF and [...]
I use my smartphone a lot, and not as a phone. That much is pretty obvious, isn’t it? I haven’t read any recent research about smartphones, but the last one I [...]
REVIEW SUMMARY: A dark, wry “post-fall-of-the-US” novel set in the near future. MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: An ex-detective-turned-drug-addict gets a chance of [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] If there is one thing fantastika has a-plenty, this thing is called the Saga. Unrestrained by the so-called [...]
As I said in a previous installment of this column, most e-ARCs these days still come in the time-honored format of the PDF file. It’s still the easiest, fastest way to [...]
The title of this fortnight’s installment should tell you everything, isn’t that so? Let’s just start in a more formal way, then: My name is Fabio [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Steampunk. It keeps going and going and going… So we asked this week’s panelists: Q: Why has steampunk [...]
As I mentioned in my previous installment, I had quite a few apps for reading e-books on my iPhone – until I went to Amazon.com to search for a book and – hey, [...]
Ok, let’s start this one with a universal truth: nobody (at least until now – from 2011 on things might be a lot different) has ever started reading e-books on an [...]
REVIEW SUMMARY: Seventeen stories ranging from time travel to alternate histories, with plenty of tributes to SF masters like Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Edgar Rice [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Recently, a poll in The Guardian created to the readers nominate their favorite SF writers revealed an appalling [...]