shirleyjacksonawards.blogspot.com - 6/25/2009
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Ann VanderMeer/Jeff VanderMeer - Fast Ships, Black Sails What spurned both of you to work on a pirate anthology? Did you pitch the concept or was it assigned to you? A - The good folks at Nightshade asked us to do it. It sounded like a lot of fun, an all-original pirate anthology. We were ...
warrenellis.com - 6/18/2009
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Received in email from Jeff VanderMeer, who asked
me to repost it: ### Shared Worlds asked Elizabeth...
Hand, Nalo Hopkinson, Ursula K. LeGuin, China Miéville, and Michael Moorcock: “What’s your pick for the top real-life fantasy or science ...
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SF Tidbits for 6/25/09
SF Signal —
... (Star Wars, Star Trek, Transformers, Terminator, blah, blah, infinite blah) we should ensure they have an appreciation for science as well."
Interviews & Profiles: The Dragon Page podcast-interviews James Enge (Blood of Ambrose). David Steffen interviews Cat Rambo. [via Bibliophile Stalker] io9 interviews Robert Charles Wilson (Julian Comstock). @The Shirley Jackson Awards Blog: Ann & Jeff Vandermeer.
Cool Graph of the Day: SFWA Grandmasters, by ...
June 26, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker —
Help out author Tim Pratt. And while you're at it, help out Apex Magazine as well (someone cast Raise Dead!). Interviews The Shirley Jackson Awards interviews Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (that's Ann & Jeff, not Jeff & Ann!). Rae Bryant interviews Ruth Nestvold. Locus Magazine interviews Robert Charles Wilson. Advice/Articles Stephen Leigh on Why I hate to answer the phone... Sue Burke reacts to Guide to International SF/F (Part I ) ...
Catching Up: Capybaras, Book Tour Schedule, and Linkage
Ecstatic Days —
... Ann ‘n’ me interviewed about Fast Sails for the Jackson Award blog. (I hope “spurned” doesn’t mean Charles Tan has inside info about the winners.) Ann: “I understand the appeal of doing anthologies purely by invitation only, but in doing so you run the risk of all anthologies being exactly the same, with the same writers. Pirates is also a broad theme and we were determined to create a book that showed diversity.” ...
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