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Thu 8 Jan 09 —
» San Francisco's Stacey's Bookstore will close in March; San Francisco Chronicle

» NPR: Rick Kleffel on The Wovel: Literary Alternative To Browsing Blogs

» Ellen Datlow's photos from NYC's Poe launch

» Guardian reviews the VanderMeers' Steampunk

» Ticonderoga Online is now ticon4, with reviews, fiction, and nonfiction

» January Quantum Muse is posted

Wed 7 Jan 09 —
» January Internet Review of SF features Jason Ridler, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Gary Westfahl, Lois Tilton, and others

» Rick Klaw reviews Chris Roberson's End of the Century

» BookSpot Central interviews Eric Nylund

Tue 6 Jan 09 —
» Sci Fi Weekly and Sci Fi Wire have merged to become SciFiWire.com

» Bookslut: Paul Kincaid's Science Fiction Skeptic column Historicize Me Now

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FUTURE HISTORY
Author Events 5 - 11 Jan '09
Ellen Datlow & others celebrate Edgar Allan Poe; plus, Jan Burke, John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow, Scott Sigler, John Levitt

Conventions 9-11 Jan
» Rustycon -Seattle



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earlier BLINKS
Mon 5 Jan 09 —
» Strange Horizons: 2008 In Review, with Martin Lewis, Gwyneth Jones, Abigail Nussbaum, Adam Roberts, Paul Kincaid, Graham Sleight, and others

» NY Times: Janet Maslin reviews Charlie Huston's The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death

Sun 4 Jan 09 —
» Dave Langford's Ansible 258 includes news of F&SF's switching to bimonthly publication

» Friends of Ed Bryant

» SF Reviews.net reviews Bruce Sterling's The Caryatids

» January SF Site has reviews of Stephen Baxter, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, Michael Swanwick, and others, plus an invitation to Vote For Your Favourite Books of the Past Year

» Clarkesworld Magazine: Anthologists Discuss Their Craft, with John Joseph Adams, Ellen Datlow, James Lowder, Jonathan Strahan, Ann VanderMeer, and Jeff VanderMeer

» January Planetary Stories has new fiction by Lou Antonelli & Edward Morris, Edgar Mortis, Michael Shack, and Anthony Larson

» January Apex Magazine has new stories by Ruth Nestvold and Jason Palmer, and reprints from Eric James Stone and Ed Turner

» io9: Why Are SF Books As Long As They Are?

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Wednesday 7 January 2009 at 3:36 pm

$1 E-books from Orbit
Orbit is offering a different e-book each month for just $1, starting with The Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks. The special promotion is only availab...

Tuesday 6 January 2009 at 5:33 pm

Hugo Nominations Open
Nominations for the Hugo Awards, honoring the best work published in 2008, are now being accepted. Nominating ballots must be postmarked by Februar...

Monday 5 January 2009 at 2:13 pm

F&SF Goes Bimonthly
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction is switching from a monthly to a bimonthly publishing schedule beginning with the April/May 2009 issue....

Wednesday 7 January 2009

PERSPECTIVES : Commentary:
Cory Doctorow: Writing in the Age of Distraction

cory doctorow
The single worst piece of writing advice I ever got was to stay away from the Internet because it would only waste my time and wouldn't help my writing. This advice was wrong creatively, professionally, artistically, and personally, but I know where the writer who doled it out was coming from...

Tuesday 6 January 2009

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

beedle bard
Stephenie Meyer and Charlaine Harris continue to dominate SF/F/H presence on general bestseller lists as the new year begins.

Monday 5 January 2009

NEWS : Locus Magazine : January Issue Table of Contents

january issue The January issue of Locus Magazine features interviews with Frederik Pohl and Daryl Gregory, a new column by Cory Doctorow, an obituary and appreciations of Forrest J Ackerman, coverage of the publishing industry's Black Wednesday, short fiction reviews by Gardner Dozois and Rich Horton, and reviews of new books by Dan Simmons, Holly Phillips, Brian Evenson, Daniel Fox, and many others.

Wednesday 31 December 2008

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Magazines: December


What's in new issues of Interzone, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Mythic Delirium, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Weird Tales

PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Caitlín R. Kiernan : Transmutations

Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview.

caitlin kiernan I will say up front (I've had interviewers in the past who simply refused to believe this), I never set out to write scary books. When people would talk to me about Silk, way back when, they'd say, 'Oh god, I'm so scared of spiders!' Well, I'm not scared of spiders. I adore spiders...

Tuesday 30 December 2008

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

beedle bard
J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard slips a bit but still ranks in the top 10 on all lists that include it, while Stephenie Meyer and Charlaine Harris sustain their domination of hardcover and paperback lists.

Sunday 28 December 2008

PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Vernor Vinge: Surviving in Extremistan

Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview.

vernor vinge It's not surprising that near-future novels are much harder to write than far-future ones. There's the obvious problem about having actual events eat your lunch. In my case, since it took so long to write Rainbows End (about five years), not only was there the usual risk that the story would look silly by the time it went out of print, I was also threatened by the possibility that events would make the story silly before I even turned it in!

Saturday 27 December 2008

NEWS : Obituaries: December Obits



Notices of the recent deaths of Edd Cartier, Leo A. Frankowski, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, and James Cawthorn

REVIEWS : Films :
Backward, Turn Backward, O Time, in Your Flight:
A Review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

by Gary Westfahl
the curious case of benjamin button Since film critics must so often complain that a film has shamelessly trashed or dumbed down its source material, it is refreshing to report that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is actually far richer and more nuanced than the 1922 F. Scott Fitzgerald story that inspired it.

Tuesday 23 December 2008

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

beedle bard J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard maintains #1 and #3 rankings on two prints lists, but slips underneath titles by Stephenie Meyer on today's Amazon lists. Stephen King's Just After Sunset still ranks among top ten fiction hardcovers on three lists, and Charlaine Harris' seven Sookie Stackhouse still all rank at New York Times.

Thursday 18 December 2008

NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: first week December

Notable new SF/F/H books published in the first week of December are Christopher Barzak's The Love We Share Without Knowing, J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard, James P. Blaylock's The Knights of the Cornerstone, and Ellen Datlow's anthology Poe.

Wednesday 17 December 2008

REVIEWS : Films : 1958: Science Fiction Film's Sense-of-Wonderful Year

by Gary Westfahl
1958 It would be an interesting question for a panel at a science fiction convention: What was the most important year in the history of science fiction film? My own personal choice is a year that most people would not even consider: 1958. It's a year that commands special attention because a convergence of three separate developments combined to produce an unusual number of films which were unlike any other films that had preceded them and which still make for rewarding viewing today.

Tuesday 16 December 2008

NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

beedle bard
J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard debuts at #1 on USA Today's list, #3 on San Francisco Chronicle's list, and remains #1 on all three Amazon lists today; Tobias S. Buckell's Halo: The Cole Protocol ranks significantly on trade paperback lists in its 2nd week.






— January 2009 —

Interviews with
Frederik Pohl and Darryl Gregory

Report on SF Publishing & Black Wednesday

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30 December 2008
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Interviews with
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Forthcoming Books through Sept. 2009

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Interviews with
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Cory Doctorow:
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Interviews with
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Frederik Pohl on
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Interviews with Neal Stephenson and Gregory Frost

Forthcoming Books

Hugo Awards Ceremony reports

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Interviews with Michael Chabon and Greer Gilman

Locus Survey results

Obituary and appreciations of Thomas M. Disch

Table of Contents 		August cover



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