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 [...]
[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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
[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 [...]
[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. [...]
[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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]