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Apparently, I have an impromptu book launch in a few weeks for creative nonfiction I wrote back in 2003 (eeep, I've forgotten what I've actually written!). Here's the surprise email: In Their Own Voice, the published collection of works written in your creative writing class with Dr. Emy Liwag ...
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I'm generally pleased that local author Dean Francis Alfar gets mentioned in io9 (and my own website, the Philippine Speculative Fiction Sampler , gets a couple of hits; but do check it out because I like the stories there). In the meantime, I gush over one of my favorite international authors, ...
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My second-to-the-last interview over at SF Signal is with Nir Yaniv . *sigh* Not enough time to read all the books... Interviews Innsmouth Free Press interviews Tanith Lee . Shrink Geek interviews Jay Lake and Elizabeth Bear . The Interstitial Arts Foundation interviews Jeffrey Ford . Book ...
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JC Hutchins , author of 7th Son: Descent, will be guest blogging for today. He sent clones of Boba Fett to take over. Hi there. I'm J.C. Hutchins, a sci-fi novelist and unapologetic Star Wars geek. I'm obnoxiously old school in my love for the franchise: I barely tolerate the Special ...
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J. C. Hutchins
The Return
My interview with Jamil Nasir is now up. Back to scheduled programming. Interviews ActuSF interviews Peter Watts . SciFi Scanner interviews Cory Doctorow . Strange Horizons interviews Jesse Bullington . Adventures in SciFi Publishing interviews agent Eddie Schneider (podcast). BSC Review ...
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Every Tuesday, I'll have an interview posted. Adam Golaski's latest short story collection is Worse Than Myself . His translation of Sir Gawain & the Green Knight —"Green"— appears in installments on the critical site Open Letters . His poetry, fiction (horror and otherwise), and ...
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There's three more The Apex Book of World SF interviews to be posted at SF Signal so stay tuned. In the meantime, here are the interviews from the previous week: Aleksandar Žiljak Anil Menon Dean Francis Alfar Tunku Halim Han Song And those curious about the upcoming Lightspeed magazine ...
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Every Monday, I'll be doing bite-sized book/magazine reviews. Paolo Chickiamco told me months before that he would be launching a speculative fiction web magazine featuring Filipino authors. In many ways, Chickiamco is trying to replicate the efforts of indie publishers such as Jason Sizemore ...
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Every Monday, I'll be doing bite-sized book/magazine reviews. Disclosure: The publisher sent a review copy for the purposes of this review. Don't judge a book by its cover? Or better yet, do judge a book by its cover. This book is so retro I originally mistook it for one of our local ...
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Hope you all have a good week. And from Tarie's blog, Publishing Giant Acquires Giant Novel - Written by a Filipina! If you missed the Apex Magazine interview, here's the SF Signal copy: Tunku Halim . Interviews A Dribble of Ink interviews Blake Charlton . Tor.com interviews Ray Bradbury ...
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I continue my SF Signal onslaught with my Dean Francis Alfar interview. Rocket Kapre launches its first webzine, Usok . Interviews Fantasy Magazine interviews Jesse Bullington . The Agony Column interviews Michael Swanwick . The Agony Column has a recording of the World Fantasy Convention: The ...
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Jeff VanderMeer
Dean Francis Alfar
Michael Swanwick
Paul Witcover has a terrific revie w (the review's terrific, not necessarily the book) of The Secret History of Science Fiction that it shows me how far I still have to go as a reviewer. (My only consolation is that I read Gene Wolf's "The Ziggurat" the same way he did.) While we're on the ...
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John Scalzi
Every Wednesday, I have an essay or feature article on any topic that catches my fancy! When I signed up for the World SF News Blog , I didn't know what I was getting into, not in terms of workload, but what exactly is the scope of the term. If we were to take the term literally, that would ...
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There's never enough time! On a side note, the Apex Book of World SF interview series continues with Aleksandar Žiljak . And I post my Best of 2009 Short List over at Jeff VanderMeer's blog. (It's just my short list! I still have other books to read before the year ends! And then the stories ...
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Jeff VanderMeer
Every Tuesday, I'll have an interview posted. Jeremiah Tolbert’s fiction has appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Black Gate, Interzone, Ideomancer, and Shimmer, as well as in the anthologies Seeds of Change, Polyphony 4, and All-Star Zeppelin Adventure Stories. He is also the editor of Escape Pod. ...
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The Apex Book of World SF interviews over at SF Signal is still moving along. Last Friday's was with the awesome Kaaron Warren . On non-personal plugs, everyone should read this nonfiction piece by writer/rockstar Lourd de Veyra about the experience of losing books to the recent typhoons. After ...
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Every Monday, I'll be doing bite-sized book/magazine reviews. Disclosure: The publisher sent a review copy for the purposes of this review. It seems only fitting that an anthology such as Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing has an online supplement over at the IAF Annex. ...
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Christopher Barzak
Every Monday, I'll be doing bite-sized book/magazine reviews. Dark Delicacies III: Haunted is in a strange position. On one hand, you have a lot of decent stories: nothing outright horrible, and definitely an entertaining read, but they're not particularly striking. There are exemptions, of ...
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Jeff VanderMeer
Panic? No one's panicking. Everything's all swell. Really. Why would I lie to you? Oh, and check out my interview with the awesome Melanie Fazi . RIP Louise Cooper . Interviews Jonathan Moeller interviews Dave Smeds . The Agony Column interviews Kim Stanley Robinson (podcast). The Creative ...
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When it rains, it pours: continuing the Apex Book of World SF interviews, the latest one is with Jetse de Vries . My BSC Review essay is up, Gender, Minorities, and International SF . And there's my guest post over at Jeff VanderMeer's blog, A Pre-Summation of Philippine Speculative Fiction 2009 ...
