REVIEW: The Secret History of Science Fiction edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
sfsignal.com 10/26/2009 — REVIEW SUMMARY: Bring on the Li-Fi! MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: 19 stories and one introduction attempting to reconcile mainstream literature that's science fiction and science fiction that's accepted by the mainstream. MY REVIEW: PROS: A lot ...

The Secret History of Science Fiction being revealed
sfscope.com 9/2/2009 — James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel's third anthology for Tachyon, The Secret History of Science Ficction , now has a list of contents to go with its October publication date...

The Secret History of Science Fiction [Book Review]
io9.com 25 days ago — Tachyon Publications has a new anthology out called The Secret History of Science Fiction . It centers around a subject that has sparked countless debates and rants among Science Fiction fans. And no, it's not River Tam vs. James T. Kirk. Editors ...

TOC: The Secret History of Science Fiction edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
sfsignal.com 8/22/2009 — Here is the table of contents for the upcoming Tachyon Publications anthology The Secret History of Science Fiction edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel, which reprints stories published from 1971-2007 making the case for the convergence of ...

Making Lists: Mindblowing SF by Women and People of Color
tor.com 8/24/2009 — By now most people are familiar with the objections raised to Mike Ashley’s Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF and its all male (and most likely all white) contributors. There’s no need to rehash all of that again, but the debate and discussion ...

Face or vase? Marge Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time
tor.com 9/24/2009 — The kind of science fiction that’s easiest for a mainstream writer to write is the utopia or dystopia, because it’s a genre that started off as mainstream satire. The most famous twentieth-century examples, Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four ...

Science Fiction’s Secret History
rimworlds.com 10/1/2009 — I just received my copy of the Secret History of Science Fiction (edited by Kelly & Kessel) – thank you Matt Staggs who is no longer keep up the Octopus’ blog…. I’ve not been through the stories but I did manage to read the editorial matter at the beginning, where ...

MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 1)
sfsignal.com 10/21/2009 — Recent events and discussions once again bring the topic of genre fiction's mainstream respectability to the forefront. So we thought it'd be timely to ask this week's panelists: Q: In your opinion, does literary science fiction and fantasy have ...

6+ 1 Interview: Kate D. MacDowell
lobsterandcanary.blogspot.com 9/19/2009 — Kate D. MacDowell hand builds porcelain into figures (birds, rabbits, human hands, nests) that one is certain will move. But they won't, will they? Truncated, stripped back as if on the anatomist's table to reveal transposed organs and misplaced skeletons, these creatures are gorgeous ...

MIND MELD: What You Should Know About Speculative Fiction and Mainstream Acceptance (Part 2)
sfsignal.com 30 days ago — [ Note : Continued from Part 1 .] Recent events and discussions once again bring the topic of genre fiction's mainstream respectability to the forefront. So we thought it'd be timely to ask this week's panelists: Q: In your opinion, does ...