MIND MELD: Genre Awards: What are They Good for Anyway?
In today's Mind Meld, Rob Bedford asked our contributors to tell us their thoughts on genre awards and their place in the SFF culture and community [...]
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MIND MELD: You Know We’re All About That Backlist
In this week's Mind Meld, Stephanie Saulter, Alex Shvartsman, Tammy Sparks, Stefan Raets and more tackle their reading backlists! [...]
MIND MELD: SF Stories That Predicted the Future — Or Didn’t
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] With the new year here, we thought it was a great time to ask our esteemed panel about SF’s tales of the [...]
The Three Hoarsemen (Episode 16): The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson, with Karen Burnham
John E. O. Stevens, Fred Kiesche and Jeff Patterson gather for the SECOND episode of December! This time out they are joined by Karen Burnham to talk about William Hope [...]
Coming Soon: GREG EGAN (Modern Masters of Science Fiction) by Karen Burnham
We’re thrilled to tell you that SF Signal contributor Karen Burnham has written a book on science fiction writer Greg Egan. The book, simply titled Greg Egan, is part [...]
SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 13): “Shadow of the Torturer” by Gene Wolfe
In this episode of SF Crossing the Gulf, we tackle Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe, the first volume of the Book of the New Sun quartet, published in 1980. This is the [...]
SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 07): Discussion of Curdella Forbes’s “Ghosts”
In this episode we discuss Ghosts, a family drama set in the near future by Jamaican author Curdella Forbes. We talk about unreliable narrators, culture, symbolism, and [...]
SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 06): Discussion of Mary Doria Russell’s “The Sparrow”
This week the two Karens squee mightily about 1998’s The Sparrow–and then get down to the nitty gritty of characterization, structure, theology, colonialism and [...]
SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 05): Discussion of Greg Egan’s “The Plank Dive” and Others
This is THE Greg Egan podcast. In this episode we cover Egan’s stories “The Planck Dive,” “Glory,” “Singleton,” [...]
SF Crossing the Gulf (Episode 1): A Discussion of Ted Chiang’s “Exhalation” and Others
Welcome to the debut episode of SF Crossing the Gulf with Karen Burnham and Karen Lord. We’ll be discussing contemporary hard sf and Caribbean speculative fiction over [...]
The Academic Side of Speculative Fiction – An Interview with Karen Burnham at Kirkus Reviews Blog
Over at Kirkus Reviews, my interview with Karen Burnham has gone live. Karen is a vital part of the science speculative fiction community. In addition to running Spiral [...]
MIND MELD: Whatever Happened to Interstellar Travel in Science Fiction?
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] A lot of recent science fiction appears to take place on Earth, and only a minority of space-based science fiction [...]
MIND MELD: Our Favorite SF/F Movie and TV Soundtracks
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] We’ve covered a lot of topics in our Mind Meld series, from books, to cover art and lots of stuff in between. [...]
MIND MELD: Table of Contents for the Perfect Short Fiction Anthology (Part 1)
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Very rarely does a short fiction anthology score a home run with every single story it contains. Tastes differ from [...]
The SF Signal Podcast (Episode 005): Interview with Karen Burnham
In the fifth episode of the SF Signal podcast, Patrick Hester is joined by John Anealio, Jay Garmon, Karen Burnham, JP Frantz and Matt Sanborn Smith to discuss the science [...]
MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 4)
“Best of the Year” lists start appearing as early as November, so we are perhaps a little late in asking folks around the community: Q: What were the best [...]
MIND MELD: The Hugo Awards – Success at Picking the Best, How Well it Represents the Genre, 2009 Predictions & Overlooked Titles
As is usual around awards-time, there is much discussion about the usefulness of awards, the books that made the list of finalists, and what the Best Novel shortlist says [...]
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