io9.com - 1/7/2009
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Are magazines no longer going to be the source of the best short science fiction? Maybe. Two piece of news make me wonder. First of all, Gardner Dozois just announced the table of contents of the next Year's Best SF anthology, and it seems to include a lot of stuff from original anthologies ...
Locus 2008 Recommended Reading List: A Meme?
ofblog.blogspot.com 2/4/2009 — Since this is a long group of books/stories, bold for books read, italics for owned but not yet read in full: SF novels Matter , Iain M. Banks (Orbit UK) Flood , Stephen Baxter (Gollancz, Roc '09) Weaver , Stephen Baxter ...
Locus 2008 Recommended Reading List: A Meme
blogorob.blogspot.com 2/5/2009 — I’m becoming increasingly addicted to memes, so here’s a very genre-specific one from Larry Since this is a long group of books/stories, bold for books read, italics for owned but not yet read in full. Where appropriate, I linked to my review: SF ...
REVIEW: 2009 Hugo Award Short Fiction Nominees
sfsignal.com 6/14/2009 — Continuing the tradition of previous years (see the entries for 2006 , 2007 , and 2008 ), and just like I did for the Nebula Award short fiction finalists , I ventured forth and read the short fiction finalists for the 2009 Hugo Awards . Most of the ...
The Theodore Sturgeon Award Finalists
www2.ku.edu 5/19/2009 — This page lists the finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short science fiction by year of publication; the Award is presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, as the ...
The Theodore Sturgeon Award Finalists
www2.ku.edu 5/19/2009 — This page lists the finalists for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short science fiction by year of publication; the Award is presented during the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, as the ...
Defining Science Fiction
jameswharris.wordpress.com 2/9/2009 — I just started reading Fast Forward 2 , an original anthology of science fiction edited by Lou Anders and I had to stop in the middle of the first story to write this. Anders begins the book with two quotes about science fiction, this is the ...
2008 in Review: Anthologies, Short Story Collections, and Novellas
ofblog.blogspot.com 1/1/2009 — For many years, the short story or novella were the basic staples of SF writing. Rarely did stories go past 60,000 words and a great many authors, from Isaac Asimov to Gene Wolfe to all sorts in-between, got their start in writing by writing short ...
An Introduction to Cyberbad Days
pyrsf.blogspot.com 2/18/2009 — Like an establishment known for its fine wine, Mr Ian McDonald needs no bush hung in front of his enterprise to attract eager customers, but when hero editor Lou Anders asked me to write an introduction to Ian's collection of short stories, ...