Book Review Cafe
SF Signal — ... Amy Sterling writes in to tell us about a new website called Book Review Cafe that brags a stellar roster of bloggers: Maya Kaathryn Bahnhoff, Brenda Clough, Katie Daniel, Laura Anne Gilman, Christie Golden, Anne Harris, Sylvia Kelso, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Sue Lange, Ursula K. Le Guin, Rebecca Lickiss, Vonda N. McIntyre, Nancy Jane Moore, Pati Nagle, Darcy Pattison, Irene Radford, Madeleine Robins, Amy Sterling, Jennifer Stevenson, Susan Wright, and the blog's driving force, Sarah Zettel. You can access each author's content from the menu. ...

Free Fiction and more: Book View Cafe
Grasping for the Wind — ... Book View Cafe is a new approach to publishing made possible by the Internet. While most of the fiction on the site is free, authors will also be offering expanded work, additional content, print versions, or subscriptions for a fee. Our authors are all professionals with publishing credits in the print world. The Internet is giving us an opportunity to make their out-of-print, experimental, or otherwise unavailable work to you. ...

bookviewcafe.com - Home - SF Books
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The scifi vista from the Book View Cafe
Science fiction and fantasy news and features from Sfcrowsnest.com — ... Irene Radford, Madeleine Robins, Amy Sterling, Jennifer Stevenson, Susan Wright and Sarah Zettel. Their blog is updated daily with posts from the member authors. Subject matter is up to the authors. There are no rules, guidelines, or speed limits. Some of their authors are providing additional work for sale. Although there is material for sale the site, Book View Cafe itself is not a profit-making organization, but is a cooperative effort between the authors. More over at www.bookviewcafe.com [image]

Book View Cafe launches, offering work by 20 authors
SFScope — ... they'll be offering "expanded work, additional content, print versions, and perhaps subscriptions for a fee." They're taking advantage of the Internet to "make our out-of-print, experimental, or otherwise unavailable work [available] to you." And she adds, "although there is mateiral for sale, the site itself is not a profit-making organization. This is a cooperative efffort between the authors." They welcome donations to help pay for the site, site management, and upgrade efforts.

A Few Links
Neth Space — I’m a bit bored, so here are a few links – a couple are a bit narcissistic, but it’s my blog. Tobias Buckell is in the hospital. Hopefully things turn out not to be serious. Margo Lanagan ...

Free fiction: Book View Cafe
Variety SF —

Friday Free Fiction for 21st November
Futurismic — ... The fabulous Sarah Zettel writes to inform me of BookViewCafe.com, a collaborative site filled with lots of fiction and other cool stuff, from a whole bunch of famous/interesting writers including Ursula Le Guin, Vonda McIntyre and Anne Harris… ...

WHAT I LEARNED THIS WEEK: New site offers fiction for free
Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games — Several writers I've worked with in past and present, plus a number of others I haven't but have read and admired, have formed an author co-op to provide fiction for free via the website Book View Cafe. One of the instigators is Sarah Zettel, whose novels I had the honor of publishing back at Warner Aspect. Here's how she describes the new site: "The Cafe serves up fiction for free from published authors in a number of genres such as romance, science fiction, fantasy, and horror." In addition to Sarah, the 20 authors involved include Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Brenda Clough, Kate ...

An Interview with Book View Cafe's Amy Sterling
SF Signal — ... and rising newcomers such as Sylvia Kelso. I was immediately intrigued; why have these authors all come together in this way? What are they hoping to accomplish? And, why are they all women? ...

The Birds Audio, Adam Link Comic, and More
QuasarDragon — ... The Book View Cafe has part one of "Glad Yule" by Pati Nagle , a fantasy novella with strong romantic elements which originally appeared in An Armory of Swords edited by Fred Saberhagen. ...

Special Linkanomics
Torque Control — ... Book View Cafe: “a consortium of over twenty professional authors with extensive publishing credits in the print world. Every day, new content available nowhere else will be served up on Book View Cafe: short stories, flash fiction, poetry, episodes of serialized novels, and maybe even a podcast now and then.” Contributing authors include Ursula K Le Guin, Vonda N McIntyre, Sarah Zettel and Jennifer Stevenson. ...

December 10, 2008 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — ... help with names? Mary Robinette Kowal has some useful links (thanks Mary!): Character Name Sources and Place Name Generators. K. Tempest Bradford on The Plight of the Clueless Writer. Here's an article on The State of Horror in North Carolina. Features quotes from John Parker, Alexandra Sokoloff, John Kenneth Muir, and Richard Dansky. Publishers Weekly's Person of the Year: Amazon's Jeff Bezos. Whee! Book View Cafe stories are now available at Anthology Builder. Jason Stoddard on The Burden of ...

Book View Cafe signs partnership agreements to distribute on phone and paper
SFScope — ... first-rate stories to readers when they want it and how they want it. TextonPhone and AnthologyBuilder are leaders in their fields. Our partnership will allow our audience to fully customize their access to the best fiction available today." BVC is a cooperative project by 20 authors to offer stories and chapters, both original and reprint, on the web for free. The newest offerings on BVC include chapter 4 of Slave Trade by Susan Wright and "Mad for the Mints" by Amy Sterling.

SF Tidbits for 12/11/08
SF Signal — ... struggled to attain." It'd work on me. I don't know how many Masterworks volumes I bought even though I already own an earlier edition of the book. Over at Ecstatic Days, guest-blogger K. Tempest Bradford has some tough love for genre fiction writers. Lauren Panepinto, Creative Director for Orbit and Yen Press, shares some cool book cover art Still lovin' the Orcs covers. The savvy authors over at Book View Cafe have teamed with PortableReading to make their stories available over the iPhone and ...

SF Tidbits for 12/17/08
SF Signal — ... (PDF) translated by Christopher Tolkien (1960). [via The Cimmerian] Audio Fiction at PodCastle: "Gordon, the Self-Made Cat" by Peter Beagle, read by Barry Deutsch. Interviews: Adventures in SciFi Publishing has a podcast interview with Lou Anders about his Fast Forward anthologies. [via Club Jade] The Nebula Awards website interviews Adam Rex. Members of Book View Cafe have been invited to speak at the Library of Congress regarding new methods of ...

Author interview: Sue Lange on e-publishing
SFX — ... bypassing the traditional publishing route and looking for new ways to take content directly to readers. Although it encompasses a wide range of genres, much of it is SF and fantasy and includes big names like Ursula K Le Guin. Although there are plans to sell material, BVC itself is not a profit-making organisation. We caught up with one of the founders, Sue Lange, and asked her about what's been going on. SFX: So, tell us when and how your online venture was set up. Sue Lange: " BookViewCafe.com was conceived early in 2008 by various members of the SF-FFW yahoo group. ...

MIND MELD: Members of Book View Cafe Reveal Their Favorite Books
SF Signal — ... This week we accosted the good folks over at Book View Cafe, a group blog made up of more than 20 professionally published authors seeking to reach a wider audience by distributing their work directly to readers. We asked them a deceptively simple question: ...

February reading/events in New York City and Philadelphia
SFScope — The New York Review of Science Fiction Readings at South Street Seaport Museum continue in February by welcoming member-authors of the new Book View Cafe web site (see this article for more on the site). On 3 February 2009, as always, the doors will open at 6:30 PM for a 7 o'clock start, but it will be in the Series's new location , in the South Street Seaport Museum at 12 Fulton Street, on the fourth floor, New York City. Series curator Jim Freund writes "Book View Cafe is a web site and blog that launched in November 2008 with the mission to bring new and favorite works by the best authors ...

Book View Cafe: New Adventures in Online Publishing
Tor.com — ... The folks at BookViewCafe.com are relatively new among the clever individuals using the Interwebs for (gasp) cultural enrichment, by offering free literature in all shapes and sizes. The website, which launched in November, has sizeable sections for science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction. BVC’s 20-odd authors offer serialized novels, short stories and even poetry, by gum. The site includes heavyweights like Ursula Le Guin and Vonda McIntyre, and they’re exclusive: right now they’re not accepting new members, but adding applicants to a waitlist. Think of ...

BookViewCafe now offering ebooks along with their free fiction
SFScope — ... 2009, in Australia and "roll with the sun. We are looking for panelists, authors and editors and agents to host discussions, podcasts as readings, volunteers, and for people to spread the word through the blogoshpere. We will be having a couple of sites host forum and chat space, with everything co-ordinated through this Live Journal community with rss feeds, updates, and eventual archiving. We will be running IRCs as well as bulletin boards, so that every time zone is covered."

Download eBooks from Book View Cafe
SF Signal — Members of Book View Cafe have started to release select titles of their work as eBooks. Readers were requesting downloadable versions of the stories that now appear serialized on the website. Launched this week were eBooks from Sarah Zettel and Maya Kathryn Bohnhoff. Coming soon: eBooks from Brenda Clough, Laura Anne Gilman, Anne Harris, Phyllis Irene Radford, Vonda McIntyre, and Sue Lange. The books will be available at the Book View ...

March is Women’s History Month
Tor.com — ... You should also check out Book View Café, “a consortium of over twenty professional authors with extensive publishing credits in the print world,” all of whom are women. ...

MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature
SF Signal — ... , where she's publishing a new flash fiction story every Thursday. Her collection, Conscientious Inconsistencies, is available from ...

SF Tidbits for 3/28/09
SF Signal — ... the giant insect on the Cowl cover looks like Neil Gaiman.) Jo Walton reviews Bellwether by Connie Willis: "This is a comedy about the process of scientific discovery, and a comedy in the [Shakespearean] sense as well." Free Fiction Sample: Chapter 1 of Bar None by Tim Lebbon. [via Night Shade Books] The fine folks over at Book View Cafe are now offering electronic versions of their work. The Dragon Page ...

MIND MELD: The Forgotten Books of SF/F/H
SF Signal — ... Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff's short fiction has appeared in Analog, Amazing Stories, Century, Realms of Fantasy, Interzone, Paradox and Jim Baen's Universe. Her novelette "The White Dog" was a finalist for the British Science Fiction Award while an alternate history story "O, Pioneer" was short-listed for the Sidewise Award for alternate history. Her debut novel, The Meri (Baen), was a Locus Magazine Best First Novel ...

Book View Cafe's first Twitter Fiction contest
SFScope — ... way to involve our readers in the creative process," writes Zettel. "I'm really looking forward to seeing what they come up with." Stories will be judged on creative use of the theme and the medium. The contest is open from 9 AM EDT 10 April (Friday) until 9 PM EDT 12 April (Sunday). Judges Pati Nagle, Jennifer Stevens, and Sarah Zettel will then chose the winner, who will received an autographed copy of Pati Nagle's brand new release, The Betrayal . Full details are available on this page .

Friday Free Fiction for 1st May
Futurismic — ... I ripped my free Book View Cafe flash fiction for this week straight from the headlines: “How to Deal With the Coming Crisis” is about swine flu. By the way, I post a free flash fiction every Thursday on ...

SF Tidbits for 5/3/09
SF Signal — ... May 2009 issue includes fiction from Fabio Fernandes, L.L. Wise, Daniel Stiles, K.M. Rockwood, Violet Hilton, Jason L. Corner, J.D. Riso, Mimi Vaquer, and Heath Lowrance. Read & Tweet: Seth Wilson is putting together a Speculative Fiction Book Club on Twitter. Look for the @sfbookclub tag. The first book is The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. You have until May 14th to Read and Tweet. [via A Dribble of Ink] Alma Alexander joins the awesome crew at Book View Café and offers a ...

Things that Don’t Go Away - Mother’s Day by Sarah Zettel
BSCreview — At the BSC, Saturday means Sarah Zettel is back with another Things That Don't Go Away! Her novel Reclamation won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and also garnered a nomination for the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Novel. She is the project manager at the Book View Cafe. This week she talks Mother's Day. . . ...

SF Tidbits for 5/16/09
SF Signal — ... presents Ursula K. Le Guin's "Cat T'ai Chi". In addition for the next three months, one of BVC's Thursday Specials will be Le Guin's comics, including "Pilllow Book for Cats" and "Supermouse." These one-of-a-kind comics, exclusive to Book View Café, represent some of the more unusual offerings at the website which also has an early screenplay from Le Guin, "King Dog." ...

Things that Don’t Go Away - Le Grande Sigh by Sarah Zettel
BSCreview — At the BSC, Saturday means Sarah Zettel is back with another Things That Don't Go Away! Her novel Reclamation won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and also garnered a nomination for the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Novel. She is the project manager at the Book View Cafe. This week she calls out the French President . . . ...

Free is Always Good!
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe , "Wood Song" by Katie Daniel. First published in the 1995 DAW anthology Enchanted Forests, edited by Katharine Kerr. "a story about a nymph on Coney Island" Online ...

Book View Cafe offering Ursula K. Le Guin's Cat T'ai Chi for free
SFScope — ... 's Cat T'ai Chi . In addition, for the next three months, one of BVC's Thursday Specials will be Le Guin's comics, including 'Pilllow Book for Cats' and 'Supermouse'. These one-of-a-kind comics, exclusive to Book View Caf , represent some of the more unusual offerings at the website, which also has an early screenplay from Le Guin, King Dog . " Cat T'ai Chi is currently available at this link , with plans to make it available as an ebook soon." Le Guin's Powers won the 2009 Nebula Award for best novel. ...

All E-Fiction Post
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe , "Home is Where" by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, first published in Analog Nov 1991. "Some families move from one place to another, following a parent's job. The Jones family also travels in time. In that context, teenage rebellion can take on an entirely new character." Online ...

Things that Don’t Go Away - All is Vanity by Sarah Zettel
BSCreview — At the BSC, Saturday means Sarah Zettel is back with another Things That Don't Go Away! Her novel Reclamation won the Locus Award for Best First Novel and also garnered a nomination for the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Novel. She is the project manager at the Book View Cafe. This week she talks Scribd, Kindle and Vanity . . . ...

The Last Monster and a Few More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "White Fire" by Sylvia Kelso. A prequel to Everran's Bane . "Which of us, in the final balance, owes the most for this? Granted, I am flesh and blood. But the great gems are also living. Maybe with more than one life; and that life not always their own." Online ...

Spawn of the Stars and More
QuasarDragon — ... And at Book View Cafe , "One of Us" by Alma Alexander. "The pallisade protected the defenders against the spears and arrows from the outside, but it also limited their vision. In order to get a clear shot at one of them , one had to look out over the top and expose oneself to being shot at." Online ...

Morning Coolness
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "The Doctor's Wife" by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, first published in Analog July 1992. "Meddling in history may involve special dangers, but it does offer some unique opportunities." Online ...

Star Wars, Flash Gordon, and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : Section 2 (the conclusion) of "White Fire" by Sylvia Kelso. "It is quiet outside now. The blood is cooling. It will clot soon. This takes longer than I had thought. I am still breathing; you show me that. A mote of gold. Darkness. A crimson meteor. Darkness. An orange prickle, fading to ember red. Darkness. A royal, raging dart of fire. Flame-heart. Firel." Online ...

Fantasy Magazines, Classic SF, and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Somewhere in Dreamland Tonight" by Madeleine E.Robins. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1994). "Going to Coney. It was forbidden fruit; Aunt Min read the Police Gazette with as much fervor as her Bible, and knew chapter and verse about the vice and depravity practiced at Coney; men and women clinging to each other on the great wheel, five-cent beers, freak shows." Online ...

Good Mags Galore!
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "The DEFIANT Disaster" by Katie Daniel (1994). "What happens if a flipped coin comes up tails instead of heads? What happens if an airplane lost over the Pacific Ocean zigs left instead of right?" Online ...

Zines and More Free Entertainment
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : Any Mother's Son by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, originally published in the May 2000 issue of Analog . Sharon Glen was on countdown to her first future-trip. As a QuestLabs historian, she’d gone into the past a number of times. It had been fascinating, exhilarating, sometimes unexpected. But the future—that was different. Where the past was at least forensically known, the future was terra incognita. It was also where Robert had died. Online ...

Black Crusade, Audio Fiction, and More.
QuasarDragon — ... : "Slick" by Sylvia Kelso. "'Slick. was published in Antipodes: A North American Journal of Australian Literature. It’s set in the Australian bush, and it may be SF, or even horror. Or perhaps it’s an elegy. You decide." Online HERE . ...

Innsmouth, Futurismic, and More.
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Abelard's Kiss" by Madeleine E. Robins. First published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1995). Online ...

SF Tidbits for 6/10/09
SF Signal — ... first 32 pages of Norse Code by Greg van Eekhout. (Sort of.) Preview Chapter 1 of The Prophet and the Dragon: Dragonseed by James Maxey. Today's Best Artist Hugo nominee sample at Tor.com: this free wallpaper from Dan Dos Santos which was used as the cover for the Jay Lake' novel, Green. Suh-weet. The already stellar lineup at Book View Cafe adds another bright star: Judith Tarr. CJ Cherryh, Jane ...

Free Fiction Finds
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Classical Horses" by Judith Tarr,originally published in HorseFantastic , ed. Martin H. Greenberg and Rosalind M. Greenberg (DAW, 1991) "On a horse farm, anything can happen, and often does." Online ...

Mars, E-Zines, and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Thank God for the Road" by Nancy Jane Moore.“Thousands of people? That’s crazy. There’s not that many cars anywhere.” Online ...

Silverberg Audio, Short SF and Fantasy, and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Nimuë’s Tale" by Madeleine E. Robins (1988). "A tale of magic and betrayal in Camelot. - One who plays with time barely notices its passing. The green of the forest trembled on the verge of autumn when Malla’s husband Oulen told me there were strangers in the village." Online ...

Atlternate History, Audio Fiction, and More
QuasarDragon — ... Now complete at Book View Cafe : The Moon and the Sun by Vonda N. McIntyre (1998).“Inspired by tales of ancient sea-monsters, McIntyre spins a marvelous alternative-history fable about greed and goodness, power and pathos set at the 17th century court of Louis XIV, France’s glittering Sun King" Online starting ...

Men Into Space, Short Fiction, Frazetta, and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "The Bandido of Pozoseco". Kate Daniel. Highwayman-adventure. (1997) "Heat and haze, thirst, so thirsty, Santa Maria, agua, oh please I need water, por favor, I beg of you, Virgen Santisima, Madre de Dios, my son, water for him at least, you were a mother, oh Blessed Virgin...now and in the hour of our deaths...our deaths..." Online ...

Judith Tarr, Matthew Sanborn Smith Audio, and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Defender of the Faith" by Judith Tarr. First published in Moonsinger's Friends: An Anthology in Honor of Andre Norton , ed. Susan Shwartz (Bluejay Books, 1985) "Night had fallen in the Garden of Allah. Starlight caught and shattered in the fountain which played in its center. Upon its edges, deep in the scented shadows, a nightingale began to sing." Online ...

SF Tidbits for 6/18/09
SF Signal — ... J.A. Konrath asks: Should E-Books Be Cheap? "The rules of supply and demand don't work in a digital world, because the supply is unlimited. You don't fight piracy with weapons. You fight piracy with cost and convenience." USA Today: Book publishers make a move toward mobile to attract teens. To celebrate the release of Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff's ebook "Laldasa: Beloved Slave," BookViewCafe.com (BVC) will be holding its 3rd twitter fic contest from June 17 through June 19 ...

BVC twitter fic contest to win MKBohnhoff's new ebook
SFScope — ... is celebrating the release of Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff's ebook Laldasa: A Beloved Slave by holding a twitter fic contest. The task is to write a complete story incorporating the contest theme—You got mystery/romance in my science fiction!—in one tweet. Deadline is 9 PM EST on 19 June. First prize is a pdf of Laldasa and a signed copy of Bohnhoff's fifth novel, Magic Time: Angelfire . Second and third prizes are signed copies of Magic Time: Angelfire . For full details, see this page . BVC is "a consortium of over twenty professional ...

Classic SF, New Fantasy, and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "New Year" by Nancy Jane Moore. "The Celts crashed through the Roman legion like undisciplined children, challenging anyone, everyone, to fight. A tall woman with red hair streaming down her back led the charge, pushing through the common soldiers to face the opposing general sword to sword. She had him down within minutes, and the Romans began to retreat." Online ...

Gaming, Horror Audio, and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Cuckoo" by Madeleine Robins, originally published in 1984 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction . "Sometimes the most precious things are only on loan to us." Online ...

Free Fantasy and SF
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Kaleidoscope" by Kate Daniel, from Realms of Fantasy Magazine, December, 1997. "Is the past always what we remember? Turn the kaleidoscope and see..." Online ...

Robert Sawyer, Judith Tarr, Alastair Reynalds, Comics, and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Them Old Hyannis Blues" by Judith Tarr (1992). "And now for something completely different: alternate history goes gonzo, with Kennedys. One of our greatest hits; the cover album adorned the Tor offices for years." Online ...

Strange Horizons, Book View Cafe, and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe: "Thin Man" by Steven Piziks (1997). "Modern children fear the monster under the bed or the creature in the closet. But Victorian climbing boys spend their days crawling through claustrophobic chimneys to scrub them clean and make their beds in piles of ashes. What would they fear?" Online ...

Judith Tarr, Planet Comics, and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Elvis Invictus" by Judith Tarr. (1994) "A more than slightly off-the-wall sequel to 'Them Old Hyannis Blues'" Online ...

SF Tidbits for 7/6/09
SF Signal — I'm back from a brief respite...and taking care of some of the more interesting tidbits sent to me while I was away: Sci-Fi Fan Letter interviews Faith Hunter, author of Skinwalker. Steven Piziks has been added to BookViewCafe Lineup. July 18 is Edmond Hamilton Day! [via Locus Online] Simon Bradshaw has posted pictures from the Physics for Fiction event at Imperial College's Astrophysics Group, organized by Dave Clements with the ...

Monday Morning Freebies
QuasarDragon — ... with the demography of the subgenres? Do we get more and more sequels every year, recycling the same old ideas?" FICTION: "On the Destruction of Copenhagen by the War-Machines of the Merfolk" by Peter M. Ball. "The television stutters as we flick through the channels, colours bleeding together and rendering the devastation a fuzzy blue or green." POETRY: "Dark Emblem" by Greg Beatty. "From our fingers, what falls, / when we new faithful fall?" Online HERE . [image] At Book View Cafe : "Servants to the Dead" by Steven Piziks. "Even the dead have to pay their ...

Judith Tarr, Allen Steele, and Martian UFOs
QuasarDragon — Good Morning. E-Fiction [image] At Book View Cafe : "In the Name of the King" by Judith Tarr . "A tale of love and remembrance, and the power of names." Online HERE . (Note the link isn't working as I'm writing this, but will almost certainly be good before long). Audio Fiction [image] At StarShipSofa : The latest Aural Delights Poetry: "Heat" by Samantha Henderson. Flash Fiction: "The Boulton-Watt-Frankenstein Company" by Fábio Fernandes. Fact: "Writer Workshops" by Terry Edge. Main Fiction: "High Roller" by Allen Steele. Fact: "Film Talk" by Rod ...

Kelly Link Audio and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Homesteading " by Nancy Jane Moore (2008). A story from the collection, Conscientious Inconsistencies , "because it represents in fictional form some of the ideas I have about warriorship. " Online ...

Madeleine E. Robins, Wayfinder, Conan Art, and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Papa's Gone a-Hunting" by Madeleine E. Robins, from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Jan. 1991). "Magee is gone for the day; he left the radio playing. As I reach for a sponge the news starts. Continued turmoil in the Mideast; an improvement of the dollar abroad; terrorist attack on the plankton farms in the Gulf of Mexico; new data from the Valkyrie IV Mars mission." Online ...

Morning Fiction
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "A Quiet Knight’s Reading" by Steven Piziks. (1998). "When the pain passed, the dragon took a juicy bite, careful not to let anything drip on the book. She knew very well that it isn’t a good idea to eat and read at the same time, but tonight she really needed the treat." Online ...

E-Books and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Piece de Resistance" by Judith Tarr, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine , April 1986. "A tale of feasts, fancy, and the magic of a master chef." Online ...

Sarah Smith is BookViewCafé's newest author-member
SFScope — [image] Project Manager Sarah Zettel writes: This week Book View Caf welcomes Sarah Smith as the latest author-member of the BVC team. Smith has written the modern standalone Chasing Shakespeares (about the Shakespeare authorship controversy), and three historical mysteries: The Vanished Child , The Knowledge of Water , and A Citizen of the Country . …Child and …Water were named New York Times Notable Books of the Year. They've been published in twelve languages and in the UK, and have reached bestseller status here and abroad. Chasing Shakespeares has been ...

Morning Fiction
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Grow Your Own" by Brenda W. Clough. "How much care do you give your houseplants? Water, fertilizer, TLC? You better hope they're grateful!" Online ...

Judith Tarr and More
QuasarDragon —

Thursday Morning
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Fennario" by Sarah Smith and Resa Nelson, from Future Boston (1993 ). "And I won’t be able to tell you all of it, even if we two had every word of Phner and every human language, because the story’s still stuck in no language, somewhere between the two of us, human and alien..." Online ...

Saturday Free Fiction
QuasarDragon — ... to face me after all you’ve suffered through. I expected more from you, Andrew, really, but perhaps I was fooling myself. I’ve watched you live your pathetic little life for too long, and I’m tired of it.” Online HERE . [image] At Lights in the Sky : "Exquisite Corpse" - the full story! "The exclusive online story in 10 parts, written by 10 different authors is now finished. The idea, conceived by Christian Gilman" Available HERE . [image] At Book View Cafe : "Bedlam Inn" by Madeleine E. Robins (1994). "A Christmas fantasy... for July." ...

Sunday
QuasarDragon — Just some more cool free items. E-Fiction [image] At Book View Cafe : "Misprint" by Vonda N. McIntyre (2008). "FluffIII was supposed to be a normal ordinary catprint..." Online HERE . [image] At Manybooks : "Warm" by Robert Sheckley, from Galaxy Science Fiction June 1953. "It was a joyous journey Anders set out on ... to reach his goal ... but look where he wound up!" In e-book downloads HERE and online at Project Gutenberg HERE . [image] Also at Manybooks : "Spirit Island" by Henry Toke Munn (1922). "Arctic ...

Elizabeth Bear, C. L. Moore, H. G. Wells, and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Escape Hatch" by Brenda Clough. "Earth should be solid, but the battered earth of the Somme shuddered beneath their bellies. When he glanced over his shoulder Jack could hardly recognize Paddy. Khakis, rifle, helmet, countenance — all were like his own thick-plastered with wet grey mud." Online ...

Fantasy Shorts, Zombie Audio, and More.
QuasarDragon — E-Fiction [image] Four fantasy stories at the always awesome Book View Cafe : " Dragon Treasure " by Phyllis Irene Radford.“Peel me a watermelon, Jenks.”" Kind Hunter " by Pati Nagle. "Shade didn’t like it here either." " Feather of the Phoenix " by Katherine Eliska Kimbriel "Know, O reader, that when the children of Almighty Allah tell their children of ancient heroes and heroines, often their memories are selective." and " The White Dog " by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff. "Beauty and the Beast was the first story Mother ever read to me." ...

Jusith Tarr, PodCastle, and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : " Revenants" by Judith Tarr (1993). Originally published in Dinosaur Fantastic . "Janie wanted to pet the pterodactyl." Online ...

Zines and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "The Natural History & Extinction of the People of the Sea" by Vonda N. McIntyre, illustrated by Ursula K. Le Guin. "When the annual congregation ended, extended families dispersed to their secret homes. Families seldom encountered one another until the next summer's mating. In the spring, one sea woman of a family might bring a child into the world. Sea people lived long and reproduced slowly. They did not know their fathers." Online ...

A few Goodies
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Revise the World" by Brenda W. Clough. "On March 16, 1912, British polar explorer Titus Oates commits suicide by walking out of his tent into an Antarctic blizzard, to save Robert Falcon Scott and the other members of the English exploration team. His body is never found — because he was snatched away into the year 2045 by scientists experimenting with a new faster-than-light drive." Online ...

SF Tidbits for 8/7/09
SF Signal — The controversy over Justine Larbalestier's cover for Liar results in a new cover. [via Bibliophile Stalker] RainTaxi interviews Catherynne M. Valente. Fantasy Book Critic interviews: Jennifer Fallon. As of today, urban fantasy author, Seanan McGuire (Rosemary and Rue), joins Book View Cafe. For the next two weeks Karen Miller will be guest-posting at the Babel Clash blog. [via Orbit ...

Catching Up
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Touched by the Bomb" by Sarah Smith, from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1995). "Forty years ago, just after the Second World War, my family was stationed in Japan. The year I was six, my family took in a Japanese girl named Akiko, and I made up a horror story about her." Online ...

SF/F/H Reviewer Linkup Meme, 2nd Edition
Grasping for the Wind — ... Bibliophile Stalker Bibliosnark Big Dumb Object BillWardWriter.com The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf Bitten by Books The Black Library Blog Blog, Jvstin Style Blood of the Muse The Book Bind Bookgeeks Bookrastination Booksies Blog Bookslut The Book Smugglers Bookspotcentral The Book Swede Book View Cafe [Authors Group Blog] Breeni Books C ...

Ottinger’s Book Review Blog List
The Crotchety Old Fan — ... Bibliophile Stalker Bibliosnark Big Dumb Object BillWardWriter.com The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf Bitten by Books The Black Library Blog Blog, Jvstin Style Blood of the Muse The Book Bind Bookgeeks Bookrastination Booksies Blog Bookslut The Book Smugglers Bookspotcentral The Book Swede Book View Cafe [Authors Group Blog] Breeni Books C ...

"SF/F/H Reviewer Linkup Meme, 2nd Edition": main list
Variety SF — ... Dumb Object BillWardWriter.com The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf Bitten by Books The Black Library Blog Blog, Jvstin Style Blood of the Muse The Book Bind Bookgeeks Bookrastination Booksies Blog Bookslut The Book Smugglers Bookspotcentral The Book Swede Book View Cafe [Authors Group Blog] Breeni Books C ...

Saturday Freebies
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Cuckoo" by Madeleine E. Robins, from The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1984). "The foundling child in the woods was not quite human..." Online ...

The Genre book review parade
Club Jade — ... Bibliophile Stalker Bibliosnark Big Dumb Object BillWardWriter.com The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf Bitten by Books The Black Library Blog Blog, Jvstin Style Blood of the Muse The Book Bind Bookgeeks Bookrastination Booksies Blog Bookslut The Book Smugglers Bookspotcentral The Book Swede Book View Cafe [Authors Group Blog] Breeni Books C ...

Astounding, Audio, And More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Signs and Stones" by Judith Tarr (1992). "A locked-room mystery. An alien is found dead in his/its quarters in a very swank multienvironmental spaceliner. A human detective, on board on his vacation, is summoned by the captain and asked to try to solve the murder as quickly and discreetly as possible; on the one hand, the captain doesn’t want bad publicity, but on the other, he realizes that there is a killer loose aboard the ship." Online ...

Speculative Fiction Reviewer's Database Link-Up
Mad Hatter's Bookshelf & Book Review — ... of the Muse The Book Bind Bookgeeks Bookrastination Booksies Blog Bookslut The Book Smugglers Bookspotcentral The Book Swede Book View Cafe [Authors Group Blog] Breeni Books ...

Bitter Angels Release Day!
Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games — It's out! It's out! Bitter Angels is out! Forgive the jumping up and down, but having the book actually on the shelves is truly exciting. You bet I'm hitting the bookstore later today to have a long, ego-fulfilling look. Other things happening today: I'm now officially a member of Book View Cafe, an online professionals author cooperative. From BVC you can read a sample of ...

SF/F/H Reviewer Linkup Meme, 2nd Edition
Bibliophile Stalker — ... Dumb Object BillWardWriter.com The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf Bitten by Books The Black Library Blog Blog, Jvstin Style Blood of the Muse The Book Bind Bookgeeks Bookrastination Booksies Blog Bookslut The Book Smugglers Bookspotcentral The Book Swede Book View Cafe [Authors Group Blog] Breeni Books C ...

More Goodies
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Touched by the Bomb" by Sarah Smith, from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1995).“Akiko hibak’sha.” Tami looked at my Akiko like the other characters in Dracula looked at Bela Lugosi. As if she were a monster. Online ...

Spider on the Web and More
QuasarDragon — ... At Book View Cafe : "Changing Meanings" by Seanan McGuire. "Mayra is a vampire. Her roommate is a lingomancer—a word-witch who can change the world with words. She sure changes Mayra's world..." Online ...

SF/F/H Reviewer Linkup Meme, 2nd Edition
Walker of Worlds — ... Object BillWardWriter.com The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf Bitten by Books The Black Library Blog Blog, Jvstin Style Blood of the Muse Book Love Affair The Book Bind Bookgeeks Bookrastination Booksies Blog Bookslut The Book Smugglers Bookspotcentral The Book Swede Book View Cafe [Authors Group Blog] Breeni Books C ...

A galaxy full of SF/F/H blogs
FROM A SCI-FI STANDPOINT —

Vonda N. McIntyre Serializes 'Superluminal' and Releases it as Full eBook
SF Signal — From the good folks at Book View Café: Hugo and Nebula-award winning author Vonda N. McIntyre has just released her previously published novel, Superluminal, as an ebook at BookViewCafe.com. The novel is available in serial form, one chapter per week, or in its entirety as a downloadable ebook. Superluminal was first published as a print book in 1983 by Houghton Mifflin and is now available in several e-formats at BookViewCafe.com. Other titles from McIntyre available at ...

Katherine Kerr joins Book View Cafe
SFScope — [image] [image] Project Manager Sarah Zettel writes: On Friday 25 September, historical fantasy author Katharine Kerr joins the BookViewCaf .com team. Kerr spent her childhood in a Great Lakes industrial city and her adolescence in Southern California, from whence she fled to the Bay Area just in time to join a number of the Revolutions then in progress. After fleeing those in turn, she became a professional story-teller and an amateur skeptic, who regards all True Believers with a jaundiced eye. An inveterate loafer and rock and roll fan, she begrudgingly ...

Book View Cafe celebrates Katherine Kerr's fifteenth, and final Deverry novel
SFScope — [image] [image] Project Manager Sarah Zettel tells us that Book View Caf (BVC) "will be joining in the excitement as fans of member Katharine Kerr will be celebrating the successful conclusion of her Cycles of Deverry series. The event is called '15 Days of Deverry' and highlights the fact that the final book of the series ( The Silver Mage , scheduled to be published on 28 March) will be the fifteenth. "15 Days of Deverry is an online celebration of the successful conclusion of Katharine Kerr's vision for this Celtic knot of inter-braided novels. The ...

MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 2)
SF Signal — ... Sue Lange's new anthology of her previously published short stories, "Uncategorized," can be found in the Kindle store. Non-Kindle formats can be found at the publisher's website: http://www.bookviewcafe.com. ...

Book View Café Announces Book View Press and First Title
SF Signal — ... for the Kindle version and http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/BVC-eBookstore/ for other formats including pdf, mobi, prc, lit, lrf, epub. ...

Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls – affordable e-anthology from Book View Cafe
Futurismic — ... Book View Café, the Internet’s only professional author cooperative, announces the creation of Book View Press. Book View Press will expand the Café authors’ mission of bringing the best online fiction to the readers by bringing new work ready-to-read on the most popular ebook devices, including the Amazon Kindle, the Sony eReader and a variety of cell phones. ...

SF Tidbits for 11/11/09
SF Signal — ... Lanagan's 2009 Printz Speech (video). SF Crowsnest interviews Ron Livingston. Butterfly Book Reviews interviews Lilith Saintcrow. The IAF has a Q&A with Cecil Castellucci. Jonathan Moeller interviews Teresa Howard. Into the Wardrobe interviews Sang Pak. John Scalzi profiles Scott Westerfeld.News Free Kindle Application for the PC. Book View Cafe Welcomes Deborah J. Ross! Articles Rich Horton's Summary: ...

SF Tidbits for 11/16/09
SF Signal — ... Joseph Mallozzi's blog: Author Adam-Troy Castro Answers Reader Questions. News Sarah Monette gets a new publisher and a new name. Jonathan Strahan has a Call for Stories: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume Five. Nebula Nomination Period has opened. (Here are Jason Sanford's picks.) There's a new issue of Concatenation posted. Congratulations to Book View Cafe...1 year old and bigger and better than ever! Articles Shweta ...

The Writing Life: The Downside of the Revolution
Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games — ... This is a good thing. Frankly, even the best publishing houses and editors (Hi, David), can only shepherd so many books to market. And even the best stores can only stock so much on their shelves. The ebook outlets can get long out of print books back into circulation. It provides a way for quirky, hard-to-classify authors or books to try their wings and maybe generate a little buzz for themselves. Full disclosure: In case you don't know, I'm a member of the online cooperative Book View Cafe, which is doing this exact thing, so, of course I think it' a good thing. And ...

The Best Places To Find Your Next Free Book Online [Afternoon Reading]
io9 — ... Tor.com is another amazing online publication, connected with the publisher Tor, which updates daily with reviews, blog posts, art, commentary, and (hooray!) tons of free fiction from authors you know and love. Cory Doctorow serialized his new novel Makers on Tor.com before it hit print, and you'll see regular stories from luminaries such as Charles Stross, Elizabeth Bear, and John Scalzi. Check out the fiction archives, or just browse the site. Book View Cafe Book View Cafe publishes a lot of free fiction online, ...