October 4, 2008: September’s Top Reads, Following Through on Your Recommendations, and The Return of the Mailbag
josephmallozzi.wordpress.com 10/6/2008 — My September Picks And some of your recommendations With the month of September behind us, it’s time for me to look back over my recent reads and pick my favorite titles of the past month. It was a pretty good crop but, of the bunch I ...

The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
threetreesstudios.com 7/31/2009 — I had never taken the time to get truly acquainted with the work of Arthur C. Clarke, and so when I saw the “The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke” I decided it was time to rectify that, and I am glad that I did. I had largely not read his work because I didn’t care all ...

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT...
sciencefictionbiology.blogspot.com 10/13/2009 — " . . . relay this information to Earth. Tsien destroyed three hours ago. I'm only survivor. Using my suit radio – no idea if it has enough range, but it's the only chance. Please listen carefully. THERE IS LIFE ON EUROPA. I repeat: THERE IS LIFE ...

Science Fiction Writers Reach Out From Beyond the Grave [Famous Last Works]
io9.com 10/28/2008 — Science fiction writers have fantastical powers. They can peer into the future, invent strange new gadgets and alien races, and make us lose hours between their pages. And some writers can even speak to us from beyond the grave, publishing new works ...

Here we go again.
posthumanblues.blogspot.com 8/21/2009 — Report: UFO Sightings Coincide with Popular Sci-Fi Films, TV The British Ministry of Defense released 4,000 pages of documents detailing hundreds of UFO sightings between 1981 and 1996. A summary of the documents by UFO expert David Clarke comes ...

Paul Auster in running for science fiction award | Books
guardian.co.uk 2/13/2009 — finds himself in unlikely company as he joins the line-up of authors in the running for this year's Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction . Auster's latest novel Man in the Dark sees the insomniac protagonist telling himself a story about an ...

Save the Semiprozine Hugo Award
tor.com 4/20/2009 — Neil Clarke, the editor of Clarkesworld Magazine is very proud of being nominated for a Best Semiprozine Hugo Award this year. Alas, this year the WSFS is voting whether to remove the category from the ballot. Not surprisingly, Mr. Clarke has taken ...

Brit Actors Want A Part In Sexy Sci-Fi [The Who Effect]
io9.com 1/22/2009 — For years the property of geeks and nerds, now science fiction is suffering the ultimate indignity: Becoming the next big "sexy" thing for British actors. Is this the beginning of the end for the genre? The Stage, the British weekly newspaper for ...

Lovecraft, Clarke, Lake, and More
freesciencefantasy.blogspot.com 10/30/2008 — Rather late, one of those days. E-Fiction New at SpaceWesterns.com "In the Walls of Eryx" by H.P. Lovecraft & Kenneth Sterling. "In January of 1936 a young man named Kenneth Sterling shared a draft of a story with H.P. Lovecraft. The story was ...

Name the best science fiction titles
guardian.co.uk 6 days ago — Speculative fiction has produced some of the most intriguing story titles ever. But which are the best of the best? You should never judge a book by its cover, but should you judge a story by its title? If the recent success of Pride and Prejudice ...